Reason & Rasclot

new toys for the arsenal- Coptic thunder

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:35:15 +0000

Got a new Set of Copic pens today and a replacement nib set as well. Need to figure out how to mix their brown and black ink to get a nice warm dark.

Lets Connect soon {nh}

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:24:57 +0000

SunShine Sundays, with Kool Enue, and Wen. Wens joint wasn’t finished at the taking of this photo.

Sunshine sundays

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:02:32 +0000

when i looked at what seemed like one of the warmer parts of the day the I&iPhone said 57Degrees. It was a heat wave in the Bronx today. It would be a COD outing it didn’t run late and off schedule. I was up and Rock ready at 830 by 11 Enue was ready to go…ughhh. So with at least two hours of sun lost the plan had to be cut back quite a bit. Al told it was a real good day, time not with standing.

Connector soonish;

Images taken from the MOLOTOW website:

Gammy and Z’ germans

admin — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:08:58 +0000

A gammy and some German tourists were riding on the train… add a priest and a rabbi and you got the begining to a wild joke, unfortunately the priest and the rabbi didn’t show up.

Nursery Box

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:39:31 +0000

Ive had these wooden boxes kicking around from last fall, with the idea of painting them so they could be used at Boogers sisters Nursery, as a means for customers to carry their plants around the nursery and to the their cars when cashed out. So i finally started playing around with one, after hemming and hawing for months about what materials to use, the price of rice in southern Peru, and other such frivolous issues. One4All ink is now my go to solution for all things, its my new artist duct tape. I didnt bother sealing the would this time around, as i wanted to also get a feel for how much ink would get sucked in to the grain versus what would remain on the surface; results were encouraging. As you might expect with cheapie wood the various pieces used to construct the box had their own quirks. On the nicer tighter pieces the ink was pretty much one shot pop. IN other areas the wood was so porous it took a few coats or a white under coat to get the color intensity i was after. If i had sealed the wood first it would have been a non-issue, but was good to fond out you could in theory get some transparency out of layering the ink on a porous surface.

i might have to keep this one. I think the official boxes should jsut have one painted side or be themed thus easier to name, keep track of and differentiate between.

the life of a page

admin — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:54:27 +0000

Often i get startled by a blank page. In order to disarm it I vandalize it, making me care less about it. Easier to make a messed up page look better then it is to improve on a nice serene solid color. So throw ups and tags are in order.

Did some clean up/ surface prep with some mists of yellow, orange and red beltons. and started to sketch out some letters.

.o7 Staedtler and White Molotow One4All marker.

Went in with some brush and One4All ink. Below on the top left you can see i even broke out the old tooth brush for some good ole fashion stippling, i was being a bit cheap with the ink so its some one restrained. However its brought me to the conclusion in need an airbrush to add to the bredth of makrs one can make with Molotow Ink.

I finally pushed a few areas back by doing some top misting with the belton cans. You can see it in the top hat of Ras Top-o-page, and the same for the edges of the checkers. def couls have done more of that kind of stuff with a airbrush.

more images of this can also be seen at the molotow blog: http://www.molotow.com/magazine/blog/blog/2010/02/27/719/

the operation

admin — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:35:21 +0000

My man DJ Slug AKA BarnMandigo aka Michael Gangelo asked me to do a quick sketch for his crew, The Operation.

so this is the first attempt, the ‘rat’ part looks pretty familiar. A nine letter word is a bit of an undertaking thats for sure.

hey yo BarnDog Zinni, hold tight and be easy
its the same thing again in 2010 believe me
pockets feeling needy, the shit im in is knee deep
looking into hooking up some words to feed me and my peeps

Collection and coutning

admin — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:18:08 +0000

I ordered some more One4All a few days ago, and it arrived. I decided the best thing to do was to round out the primaries and take it from there. TO celebrate i started to paint another side to a wooded create i was given by Boogies sister.

This is jsut the first sketch and some basic undr coating, its a bit further along now but i havent had a chance to get the images dealt with yet so more to come.
Stay tuned! I havent had achance to write that yet and as its prolly fairly premature why not jump the gun, so if you’re one of the 25 or so folks a day who get here only to hastily click away, i say it agian, stay tuned more to come!

one4all ink + brush + water

admin — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:58:14 +0000

Another test of the Molotow One4All inks, using watercolor paper, water, brushes and a niji water brush. Ive found that if you mix the black ink with water it will stain the water to give you a wash but also sink to the bottom so you can scrape the bottom of the container and get an opaque black.

Readers

admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:28:04 +0000