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My zine is Type O Negative themed, I chose this topic because I love the band's music, I incorporated their music into my zine by having each page feature one of their 7 albums. Each page has several references to lyrics or imagery from that album, such as, the Dead Again themed page features an image of a lock and keys as a reference to the song, "An Ode to Locksmiths" and the October Rust themed page features a drawing of a scene from the "My Girlfriend's Girlfriend" music video. When drawing up the book I chose to leave it mostly monochromatic as the bands main two colors are black and green, I really wanted to have the green highlight the parts of the page I wanted to stand out the most. To bind the book I used a Coptic stitch which is a method of bookbinding used by the early Egyptian Christians. Overall I believe my zine is something any Type O fan would enjoy exploring. 

My dry point etching is based off a picture I took of a goat last October at the Pride of the Wapsi pumpkin patch, I chose this image because it had a lot of depth both in the front and the back, giving me an opportunity to better my skills in portraying depth in a two-dimensional image.  The process to create this edition was to etch the image into a piece of plexiglass with a stylus, then apply ink to the etching, and then run it through a press. Because this process was completely done by hand each print in this edition came out a bit different than the others, but the differences are not very noticeable at a glance. When painting the first print with watercolor I took into account some color theory and decided to use only warm colors to bring both the fence and goat further to the forefront of the piece while using cool colors on the grass, sky, and goat-house, therefore making them appear as if they are in the background of the piece. Overall I am happy with the outcome of this project. 

My self-portrait is based off a picture I took of myself last October around Halloween, I chose this image because it had a lot of detail in the makeup, I really wanted to see how much detail I could incorporate into the final product without being able to use crosshatching/hatching. The process to create this edition was to transfer the image onto a block and then carve out the white parts of the image with a lino cutter. After the carving was complete I had to roll ink onto the block and put it through the press to get my image to transfer properly, unlike everyone else who got to use a handheld pressing tool. It took some time to properly adjust the press to not ruin the image and the final products did not come out as the original carving would have printed if the handheld press had provided enough pressure to transfer the details. In the original carving, there were no marks on the forehead, but the press caused some of the chatter marks to show through, but, overall I am satisfied with the final look of this edition.

My screen printing design is heavily inspired by the works of the artists found in my "inspirations" page, I basically came up with this image as I went along, though. While creating this image my main goal was to achieve balance and unity in the final product. To achieve balance throughout the piece I tried to make sure that anywhere in the piece you looked, there would be an even amount of dark and light, as well as interesting imagery or text. To achieve unity throughout the piece I tried to make sure everything stuck to the overall theme, which is that there is no escape from time/death, so I chose a more gothic font to go along with the dark/gothic imagery. The process to create this was overall very simple, just draw with a sharpie onto a piece of paper. If my group had chosen this piece to continue the project with, we would have gone on to stretch a screen and burn my image onto the screen. Then once the image was burned we would apply t-shirt printing ink over the screen and the ink would make my image onto a t-shirt. Overall, I am happy with my design, and I may go on to put this on a t-shirt in the future. 

This is the screen print design my group settled on. Originally it had the words, "Lets get toasted!" around the marshmallow and the fire on the marshmallows head was going to be red and orange. This was not done in my final product due to complications in accidentally burning images onto screens backwards, and many other mistakes. Lessons were learned from these mistakes, of course... a few of them being to always double check your work before doing something irreversible, and to make sure your design is going to have thick enough lines before going through with the full process. I wish it could have all printed properly but there is only so much class time. Overall I am happy with the outcome, especially with our time constraints, through I do not like the design itself. 

This piece is a mono print, it is much like many of the other pieces I have made in the class except instead of printing the paper with a hard surface it gets printed using a surface that has gelatin in it, making it soft. The process to make the mono print was to place ink on the gelatin surface, cover the surface in the desired stencils, and then press the paper on the surface, printing everything except for what got covered by the stencils. This process got repeated 3 times in my case. When making my mono print I really wanted the outlines of my hands to somehow be a part of it, my hand was the focus of my trial run but in the last piece I chose to tone it down and cover it up for the most part, I was aiming for subtlety in the shapes, but not in the color. When choosing my colors I chose to stick with a monochromatic scheme, red was the color I chose because I wanted this piece to seem “human”, red being the most human color in my opinion. I made my monochromatic scheme stand out by using a basic fire engine red as the base color of the piece, then I mixed a slightly darker shade of red to make the outline of my hands, then finally I made the darkest shade of red more of a maroon to really make the lighter reds stand out. Overall I like my use of color scheme in this piece.

This piece is a pattern print, it is much like the lino cut in that I had to carve out of a mostly soft surface using a lino cutter. My goal when choosing the design for this piece was to make sure that it was not obvious that the barbed wires were not in one continuous stamp. Each line of barbed wire was pressed on the sheet twice in order for it to extend the full width of the page.  The process to print this was like using most basic stamps, take the ink and roll it on the stamp and then press the stamp on the page. Overall I enjoyed creating this piece because it was fairly quick, and for the most part an easy last piece to create in this class. I am satisfied with the way this turned out.

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