Post 12 - Screenprinting

Artist: Mateusz Gapski (behance gallery, blog)
Title: Battle Ship; Bird Kage; Pandora Box

Medium: screenprint on board
Size: 90x90cm

Gapski lives in Turek, Poland and focuses on graffiti, drawing, and painting.

The screenprints are really graphic looking and beautiful. Bold use of color and contrasting color in the first picture. Less so in the second one where it's used more to emphasize certain aspects on the face and hands. The last has the most subdued colors, though they are again used to draw attention to facial features and key objects.

Post 11 - Screenprinting

Artist: Margaret Lanzetta
Title: Dharma Index (pink) & Dharma Index (red)
Medium: Screen print; acrylic and digital ink on paper
Size: 44x45" & 57x82"

Lanzetta "draws inspiration from Buddhism, nature, Islamic architecture, industry and sixty's pop culture."
Same pattern repeated with slightly different placement and slight color variation over different mosque floor plans. It looks like the different individual pieces are then assembled together so the overall pattern can be seen.

Post 10 - Screenprinting

Artist: Ale Giorgini (behance gallery, blog)
Title: Hattori Hanzo
Medium: screenprint (4 colors, edition of 45)
Size: 18x24

Giorgini is an italian based artist who has worked as an illustrator and cartoonist.
Uses outlined shapes to create very stylized, geometrical looking characters from the movie "Kill Bill." The borders of the shapes merge so that the edge of one figures hair is the side of another's face.

Post 9 - Collagraph

Artist: Sue Brown
Medium: collagraph
Lives in Britain, does printmaking and enameling, is inspired by natural and social history, and says she "would be lost without textured wallpaper."
Color in the two collagraphs lend a sort of warm, old-fashioned, antique-y feel to the prints. Not sure if the artist printed on colored paper or just used a ton of different inks. After having the experience of making my own collagraph, I have a greater appreciation for them and what goes into making them and I like that the artist used multiple colors in hers.

Post 8 - Collagraph

Artist: Hannah Soukup (http://www.behance.net/gallery/Printmaking/6310379)
Title:"The Bottom of Her Ocean" and "Floating Fillaments"
Medium: Collagraph

Whoa, so textured, looks like your skin would catch on something if you ran your hand across it. Simulated dry, cracked desert-y sort of texture. These collagraphs are really abstracted and striking and make me want to try to be bolder and more out of the box with my own.

Post 7 - Drypoint

pattern/repetition...
Artist: Sara Ulrich (http://www.behance.net/gallery/Birds-of-a-Feather-Non-Fictional-Illustrations/4584791)
Title: "Birds of a Feather" series
Medium: Drypoint

Ulrich is a graphic designer living in Budapest, Hungary.
Artist used plexiglass for her matrix. Pattern on the birds comes from the simplified/stylized feathers being repeated across the form. Also the echo echo echo -ing of the line work. I love how intricate these drypoints are.

Post 6 - Drypoint

Artist: Alexa Cassaro
Title: "In Artichoke We Trust"
Medium: Drypoint, Chine Colle, Jigsaw Etching

Fun, quirky print and a good example of the pencil-like, sketchy lines you can achieve with drypoint and also how different amounts of wiping with the ink can create variation in the printed picture.