are from San Antonio
We took a relief print
by Marcus Robiason,
doctored it up in Photoshop,
and made a vector image of it online
using Autotracer.org
Steve CNCed the vector file
on plywood
We laser cut the vector image
into 3 pieces of 1/4 inch Baltic Birch plywood
The 3 laser cut pieces together,
laying on 1/2 inch Baltic Birch plywood board
Lifting the negative space from the laser cut
We used the best wood glue
After gluing, we clamped the wood pieces
using a pneumatic gun with 5/8th brad nails
For more complex sections,
we put both the positive and negative form
on a sticky back tape;
then we weeded out the negative pieces
Gluing the back of the wood
We shot brad nails
right through the sticky paper;
the paper pulled off really easily
Finished glued piece
Then we shellacked the piece,
3 coats on front and back,
with a 50% shellac/ 50% denatured alcohol mixture
(still needs a final front coat of pure shellac)
A big thanks to David Lesser of Xerocraft, for helping us laser cut and prepare the relief woodblock!
On Oct 7th, we had the same image CNCed at FabLab El Paso:
This version is slightly different --
the two figures will be surrounded by
black in the print
Later we shellacked this piece --
3 coats, half 'n half, shellac/denatured alcohol,
on both front and back sides,
then a full straight coat of shellac
on the front side
2 x 4 foot big print
from the 2nd version woodblook --
Marcus' CNCed woodcut
in the upper right corner of the FabLab El Paso exhibit
at the Rubin Center on the UTEP campus
in El Paso
(Feb 2017)
SIDE PROJECT
Marcus Robiason originally did the below drawing for the steam roller print, but the proportions were not 2 x 4, so we went with a different image. However, Las Cruces is not far from El Paso, so we are commissioning Reviver Printing to silkscreen an edition of 25 prints of this devil image.
A gravity bong is a kind of pipes that makes use of gravity to fill the chamber, rather than compel. Here
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