New Line of Gooco Printed Cards

Matt Brajot of Llamacafe just designed two new cards for his hand drawn type line.These guys were all gocco printed and will be available at Press: Works on Paper starting next week. Come get this limited edition print while you can!

Weekend Pics

Spent the weekend camping on the Yuba River... it was my first camping trip ever! The water was gorgeous, Matt made a little horror movie and designed a custom graphic for the weekend that we gocco printed on tees and well anything we could get our hands on.  This is my favorite image from this weekend, but there are more here...

A new year

The New Year is a time when change can be a welcomed thing. With 2009 comes the opportunity to create new traditions and maybe change my routines a bit.  I usually make a New Year's resolution or two, and stick to them fairly well. As always I am looking to this New Year as a chance to bring interesting things into my life.  My New Year's Resolutions are as follows:

1. Paint or draw one miniature a day (the first of which is above. A persimmon in                       prismacolor shades of orange and red).
2. Take a photo everyday. ( I'm hoping to make this a polaroid a day if budget allows)
3. And small but significant... Make my lunch to save money and eat something other than soup.

I have intentions of also posting the results of my efforts here, either in the photo or the miniature which makes me post everyday as well, maybe a hidden fourth resolution.

What are your resolutions?

Gocco Nite 2

NITE TWO OF PRINTING WITH MY GOCCO. THIS TIME TRYING COLORED INKS, MIXING COLORS, LAYERING MOTIFS. AM SURPRISED AT HOW OPAQUE THE PASTEL COLORS ARE. I AM ADDICTED!

Gocco Crazy

I am officially addicted! After printing coasters with MJ, I went out and bought tea towel material and fabric ink and printed teacups and silverware on teatowels all night long!
I think I might be crazy enough to buy the larger gocco!

Gocco Printing with the PG 5

I was so happy to finally buy a Gocco Printer and yet it sat in the box for two weeks, untouched after it arrived. Luckily with the company of MJ and her Gocco, we printed some coasters this morning. The whole process was far easier than I anticipated and I was very happy with the results. Although the instructions are in Japanese (because its a Japanese product) it does come with a VHS (also in Japanese) demonstrating how to "Print Gocco." The PG 5 machine we used comes with a set of screens and bulbs, 3 tubes of ink, and a pen so you can create a screen from an original drawing. You can also use any image that's been xeroxed or printed with a toner based printer. MJ did an drawing of flying birds, and I did a clip art image of a woman.

After using it once, I can see how this might become addicting! Check out Group Gocco and Loco for Gocco on Flickr to see more stuff printed with the Gocco!