hanging on the wall

PRINT 13.

2009-05-06T06:36:00.001-07:00

"Front row Girls", edition of 3, Four color construction intaglio-type, 12"x12" plate size with 24"x16"paper.

PRINT 20

2009-05-05T21:43:00.001-07:00

"Willow Grove", edition of 4, 2 (Blue), 2 (Green), Duo-Tone, 12"x12" plate size with 24"x16" paper.

PRINT 19

2009-05-05T21:42:00.002-07:00

"81 Motel", edition of 4, Four color construction intaglio-type, 12"x12" plate size with 24"x16" paper.

PRINT 18

2009-05-05T21:42:00.001-07:00

"Headed south on 81 to PA", edition of 6, Four color Intaglio-type, 16"x20" plate size on 24"x32" paper

PRINT 17

2009-05-05T21:40:00.001-07:00

"Eakins Circle", edition of 3, Four color Intaglio-type, 7"x10" plates on 24"x16" paper.

PRINT 16

2009-05-05T21:37:00.001-07:00

Not for sale....messed up.

PRINT 12

2009-05-05T21:36:00.000-07:00

"Amy with her Cat", edition of 25, 3 color Screen Print, 10"x7.5" image size on 9"12" paper

PRINT 15

2009-04-23T14:36:00.001-07:00

"Without Ghosts", edition of 4, CMYK Construction, 12"x12" plates on 24"X16" paper

PRINT 14

2009-04-23T14:35:00.001-07:00

no title yet...
"Milemarker 122" edition of 4, CMYK Construction, 12"x12" plates on 24"x16" paper

PRINT 11

2009-04-17T13:57:00.001-07:00

"Kaitlyn in her Bathroom", edition of 4, CMYK Intaglio-type, 12"x12" plates on 24"x16" paper.

PRINT 10

2009-04-15T15:11:00.001-07:00

"Henrietta NY", Duo-tone construction, edition of 3

PRINT 9

2009-04-15T13:42:00.001-07:00

"Alley Way", CMYK construction, edition of 4

PRINT 8

2009-04-15T11:00:00.000-07:00

"Sofija on a bed of Flowers", CMYK intaglio-type, edition of 5, plus one MP

PRINT 7

2009-04-14T17:10:00.001-07:00

"Amy in a blue Dress", edition size 4

PRINT 6 alt.

2009-04-09T15:22:00.000-07:00

"Deer in Shoulder (alt)", Duo-tone Construction, edition size 2

PRINT 6

2009-04-09T15:21:00.001-07:00

"Deer in Shoulder", Duo-tone Construction, edition size of 4

PRINT 5

2009-04-09T15:20:00.001-07:00

"Chicago", CMYK construction, edition size of 3

PRINT 4

2009-04-08T16:16:00.001-07:00

'Kira at the edge of her bed" CMYK construction, edition size 4.

the printing of "Julia under Oak"

2009-04-07T16:53:00.000-07:00

This image is the first CMYK construction pulled outside of the RIT studios. I had a lot riding on this working, almost 9 months of research actually. The print came out great and I was lucky that the red ink I had in the studio was the Scarlet red, it makes things more warm. I prefer it for skin tone...

PRINT 3

2009-04-07T16:52:00.002-07:00

"Julia under Oak", edition size 6, CMYK construction

PRINT 2

2009-04-07T16:51:00.000-07:00

"112 S." edition of 4, CMYK Intaglio-type

PRINT 1

2009-04-07T16:50:00.000-07:00

"Liz"; edition size 4, duo-tone construction

PRINT A DAY BEGINS!

2009-04-07T16:46:00.000-07:00

So I have decided to start doing a print a day until I run of time here at the end of the semester. I was talking with the grads that are finishing up their mfa's at RIT and it got me reminiscing about the month I spent working after my thesis was finished. That was the time that I really worked on the construction CMYK prints and I haven't really touched it since. Yesterday I got all the tech stuff working so I decided to jump start things and complete a print a-day for the next 20 days. I'll be posting the prints for sale at the end of the month, until then please keep checking back for more images.

EDITION printing at Zea May's

2009-03-19T20:24:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone, this weekend I will be at Zea May's Printmaking in Florence MA to complete the Dan Danger editions started a couple of months back. Please check in during the week for progress shots and updatery. Printing should begin sometime Friday afternoon and end sometime mid day on Sunday. It should be a fun weekend....

the first cmyk at arcadia

2009-02-25T20:57:00.000-08:00

Today I pulled the first CMYK photo intaglio-type to come off the press at Arcadia. The image has the same problems that the b/w one has below but I am more optimistic with this product. It still seems blown out to some degree and a lot of the softer details seem to have been lost but thats what tweeking is all about.

Starting CMYK

2009-02-24T13:59:00.000-08:00

After I finished working on Dan's plates I am beginning to start the research to get CMYK printing to work at Arcadia. This is the first test, a greyscale version of the full color image. 5LU, 8 min development at 89% dot. The image feels fuzzy to me and not as crisp as i'd like it to be. This could be because I added Noise .5 and added a Gausin Blur 1.0. The dots are showing up well, but I can't get a handle on why it looks this way? or is this as good as it will look?

Hands...

2009-02-19T13:40:00.001-08:00

So all that is left is to pack the tubes and ship them off to the gallery. My hands are wrecked, see above. I think I washed them over 100 times last night, all the more reason to get a printing assistant. Still no sleep, but I am feeling pretty good after a nap or two.

CROSS WIRES...

2009-02-19T05:27:00.000-08:00

THis one, same deal as Wyeth. More versions to get out there, but it's looking good. The sun came up, Season 3 of Pete n' Pete is on the TV and my stomach is doing a good job with all that pizza.

the last of them....

2009-02-19T05:24:00.000-08:00

code name "WYETH", i pulled this image from three separate plates this evening and I think I found a good one. The first attempt had some areas that were on the verge of open bite so I went and extended the exposure. This worked well and they are coming out nice. Now I just have to get a couple more nice ones before I fall asleep.

5:16 am, code name "FLASHLIGHT"

2009-02-19T02:18:00.000-08:00

I am feeling a bit fuzzy, half way done. Now I have to re-laminate two plates from early, expose and print them again. All in all I should be finished by noonish. I am happy to see FLASHLIGHT up to it's full size after staring at it at 8"x10" for weeks. Seriously , I couldn't do this with out pete n pete. The Night-crawlers episode has new meaning....

from 10pm to 1am, code-name "Sword"

2009-02-18T21:38:00.000-08:00

So I got a late start tonight on account that I was teaching up till around 9pm this evening. I started printing code name "Wyeth" but after four prints decided that I needed a do over on the exposure. I moved on to "Cross Wires" but was experiencing the same problem so I had to scrap that plate as well. "Sword" is coming out well and I am pretty happy with it so far, no major problems. I have pizza in my belly a 2 liter of coke sitting outside the door, and Pete n' Pete on the TV.

The three so far

2009-02-17T15:37:00.000-08:00

SWORD

2009-02-17T15:35:00.000-08:00

SWORD, rough version. Everything I did today is in the stripper and going to get re-laminated tonight for tomorrow. Tomorrow I am pulling all night to get things ready for mailing to the gallery on Friday. I am pretty happy with the plates but I am having issues with the press. The flat bed is not level, so it's throwing all of the pressure application from the rollers. So basically I get ghost spots which can sometimes look cool but I am worried they will be inconsistent.

Weyth

2009-02-17T12:33:00.000-08:00

So after I got things working with "wires" i moved on to a new image and after the first print it's looking pretty good. I am taking a break, watching some futurama and getting ready to give a talk in the gallery.

Crossed Wires...

2009-02-17T12:30:00.000-08:00

I think i got things figured out today, just going through the images, making exposures and seeing how they turn out. I have been working on "Crossed Wires" for almost a week and I am glad to be near the end of the process.

getting closer

2009-02-16T21:18:00.000-08:00

Today i pushed to the full size image...i am getting close, it seems that most of the research I have been completing fell apart when the size got larger. The image is plagued with open bite areas that need remedy, but I can get a sense of how great these are going to look when I get there.

done...

2009-02-15T19:18:00.000-08:00

a little blurry, but after at least two weeks of work I found a way to make things go right. The trick is that I exposed a little longer, only .2 of a LU, then hand developed, or over developed the foreground to get it to where it needed to be. It's not as precise as I would like but it will work.

two images in one

2009-02-15T19:16:00.000-08:00

My basic problem was this; i'd get the back ground and black tree to read well, but loose detail in foreground, and vice versa. Ideally I needed to make two exposures but things don't work that way. you can see the background here all open bit but with perfect detail in the foreground.

LU tests

2009-02-15T19:13:00.000-08:00

Once the % of dot is found, it's time to mess with the exposure. Here are three separate Light Unit exposure tests.

21 scale step test.

2009-02-15T18:54:00.000-08:00

One the essential parts of this process is determining the % of a black area of an image. That is to say that if you drag the color sampler tool in photo shop over your image and you find an area of black at 100% it means that the are is so solid that no light will pass through it. If we expose that to an ImagOn plate it will open bite, meaning that light won't got through the image it will form around the image. Since in intaglio printing we need ink to get into groves of the plate we need to open the dots of an image to a certain percentage that will allow just enough light to pass through the black areas to create the dot structure needed for that area to print black. You can see on this test where the 100 and 95% areas are washed away, they have open bit. The first line of black indicates the proper percentage needed.

beginning with the lazar version

2009-02-15T18:46:00.000-08:00

So to start this whole project off I was working with lazar print positives to make images. I got one working well and showed it to Dan who was pleased but unhappy with the uniform dot you get from a lazar printer. So i set to work using an Epson 3000 to make positives. The Epson 3000 is key to this process because it allows for a randomized dot pattern along with printing black directly from the black cartridge. A composite would allow light to pass through the dots and destroy the image.

Starting work on the Dan Danger's

2009-02-15T18:40:00.000-08:00

So this is the mega research preliminary stages of the work I am doing for the Daniel Danger show at the Richard Goodall Gallery. I am going to get into detail about some of the images but the basic working method here is to knock out a couple of variables which will get you the image you want. First you have to start out with material tests (what you tell the printer you are printing on), then exposure tests to determine time of exposure and percentage of dot, then development time. Once all four of these factors are worked out you end up with an image with no opening biting, solid blacks, solid whites and a wide range of mid-tones.

from Leah Allen...

2008-12-29T13:37:00.000-08:00

Leah sent me this pic of a naked lady painting, dot nude #9, and a gray's anatomy collage I did a while back.

111 davis framed

2008-06-18T05:43:00.000-07:00

This is from Blake, can't wait to see it on a wall...

some kind of MOVIE!

2008-04-13T21:32:00.000-07:00

we shot some footage on our not so good digital camera. I put it together as quickly as I could, yes the editing is not so good but i think it does the job. Plus I am too tired to really worry about it.

total domination...

2008-04-12T21:32:00.001-07:00

the numbers are all high...
- amount of ImagOn (300 sq ft.)
- transparency film (400 sq ft.)
- plastic (320 sq ft)
- ink (5 oz)
- paper (28 sheets of 48"x32" 336 sq ft)
- work time (165 man hours over 5 days)
- 2 haine's pocket T's
- 8 taco bell quesadilla's
....everything is up there. This was an amazing week and i can't believe I was able to print 44 2'x3' plates (9 images total, thats one more than i did for my thesis show!) and pull off back to back 15 hour days. The work came out great and I now have a new slogan "Justin Myer Staller is gallery ready in under 1 week." I want to thank Daniel Danger for helping all week with every aspect of this project, i of course owe him. I also want to thank my wife and cats for letting me leave them for a week to make art, they are the best family ever. I want to thank everyone at RIT, especially Keith Howard and Danielle Johns for all of there help facilitating this project. We made some videos of the printing of 'Candle Light" that we are going to try an edit....keep checking back.
Justin

"marge"...done and done...

2008-04-12T18:50:00.001-07:00

i am ready for a nice long nap and a bath...this marge, the last one on the list for this hole week....thanks for everyone for checking in...justin

"devon' finished....

2008-04-12T15:44:00.000-07:00

Well we are coming down to the wire....One print left to proof and one order to fill, time is running out for those of you interested in purchasing this weekend. Please feel free to call or email.

a little thanks for danielle...

2008-04-12T14:54:00.000-07:00

Danielle has been helping me out all week so I let her choose a print, she choose the right half of 5/10, a fine choice. here we are inking the plates and opening a bank or closing a joint summit meeting.

"Candlelight"

2008-04-12T12:08:00.001-07:00

The latest of the press and the second print pulled this morning. This image came out super crisp, almost wet looking with tons of detail in the foreground from the vines.

tomorrow...

2008-04-11T23:08:00.001-07:00

please note that these are sketches and some massive color correcting has been applied but my computer won't seem to let me post those so i am posting these.

sofija....

2008-04-11T22:58:00.000-07:00

"sofija" is finished and so am I. I need some sleep, we are getting a little delerious over here, For a moment it looked like someone took over dan's brain, like in being john malkovich. Anyway we are back at it again tomorrow. Please do me a favor and let us know in the morning if you want to purchase anything so we can plan our printing schedule around it. It takes almost an hour to print each image so you need to give us some time. Please also remember that the prices for these images will rise once I leave RIT which is tomorrow night. Thanks again, please feel free to call or email with any questions....

"111 davis" finished

2008-04-11T21:07:00.000-07:00

well it's midnight and we have one more print to do this evening before getting some sleep. We just completed the proofing of "111 davis' and it came out great, is sorta has the safe feel as 'last gas", with the snow and blue tinge. I would also like to mention red lobster shrimp scampi sitting on top of Indian buffet in your stomach is ruff.

coming up later tonight...

2008-04-11T17:20:00.000-07:00

we are going to pull three more on saturday...will post those later.

"111 davis" Right half...

2008-04-11T17:15:00.000-07:00

we just finished proofing the right side of the next diptych "111 Davis" and are ready to head out and get some diner. When we get back we are going to finish the other side of this print and one more single image. i am thinking red lobster?
cheddar biscuts?....

"gashouse"

2008-04-11T15:32:00.001-07:00

"gashouse" is finished, we are sleepy and it's hard to keep our heads up yet alone make sweet huge cmyk prints.
One more diptych and one more single to go today...

"5/10"

2008-04-11T12:58:00.001-07:00

Here is the finished print "5/10" as close to put together as I can do. We took it out on the roof for better lighting. The day has begun feel free to call or email with questions.
thanks

kitty cat smock

2008-04-11T12:56:00.000-07:00

daniel holding up the right side of "5/10" where his cute little smock...

talking...

2008-04-11T12:53:00.000-07:00

here are some images of the talk i did this morning for RIT's creative sources class. The first image is a construction intaglio type of harris from q and not u, the next a painting which is followed by a print I did of swift.

tired...

2008-04-10T21:19:00.000-07:00

i spent the rest of the day preparing my lecture for tomorrow and getting all of the half tones printed and off the 7600 while it was working okay. more prints tomorrow, promise...plus a shower and clean clothes...

left side of "5/10"

2008-04-10T16:47:00.000-07:00

this is the first diptych coming off he press. The next side is coming as soon as I can muster up some energy to get out of this chair...i'm achy

"greenfield"

2008-04-10T16:37:00.001-07:00

Cameout pretty darn well, the second print pulled this week. Thanks to Danielle Johns (R)( go see her work at www.myspace.com/dani_j24) and Jessica Foley (L) for all of there help inking plates.

greenfield, next one on the list...

2008-04-10T11:59:00.000-07:00

'Greenfield' a 2x3, same size as cost as the devon print, will start proofing soon...

now accepting orders...

2008-04-10T11:47:00.000-07:00

Devon, a 2'x3' image size on 48"x32" hammermule copper plate, bright white edition of 10 for $300 while we are in the shop, $350 when I get home (the price change reflects the cost of the press i will have to rent to finish the printing) Please call if your interested tonight or tomorrow as we will be soon kicking it up a notch.

in the mean time....

2008-04-10T09:11:00.000-07:00

I re shot the yellow and cyan plate from the devon print that we proofed yesterday. The yellow had started to open bite and the cyan plate was too faint. So the yellow plate was developed for 7 min instead of 9, insuring that full areas would hold and then the cyan plate was exposed at 18.5 instead of 20LU and over developed for 10 minutes to bring out more information.

bleep blop

2008-04-10T09:08:00.000-07:00

another day fighting with 7600...tech support is on it, then we ran out cyan ink, which we don't need to print but needs to be in the printer for it to work. so basically we are getting a head clog that won't go away, but even more frustrating is inconsist and making our problem solving methods futile.

the print, devan...

2008-04-09T16:20:00.000-07:00

just like to note that the cyan plate was over wiped which adds to the yellow color cast...i am a little rusty but getting back in the swing of things...it feels good to pull a print again....any interest please feel fee to email or call, dan and I are going to Olive Garden for a well deserved break...thanks

printing...

2008-04-09T16:16:00.000-07:00

you can see the yellow full plate after printing, me registering the magenta plate and running it through the press....

inking the plates....

2008-04-09T16:05:00.000-07:00

the plates are inked with Akua brand intaglio inks, a water based ink that requires no solvents for clean up. After the plates is inked up we take cheese cloth material and wipe away excess ink.

close up of three layers...

2008-04-09T13:42:00.000-07:00

magenta layer

2008-04-09T13:39:00.000-07:00

We started with the black and cyan layer but the nozzle was still a bit clogged so i ran a bunch more tests and ran the magenta and yellow layers through the printer and they are coming out fantastic. We also realized that in the transfer I cropped out almost a third of an inch from the black and cyan, so i am forcing myself to reprint them. Again, all mistakes i would rather make now when i am sane.

dot adjustment

2008-04-09T13:38:00.000-07:00

before you can send off an image to the 7600 you have to adjust the overall output of the dot as well as running a channel separation.

devon...

2008-04-09T11:49:00.000-07:00

This is going to be our first attack...keep checking back...we might even make some movies...

i forgot to mention we fixed things...

2008-04-09T11:45:00.001-07:00

believe it or not RIT, a technical institute, actually had a couple of reserviors sitting around and were able to replace the part, plus did a nice head cleaning, nozel cleaning and a nozel alingment. So basicially we are going to do a dry run; separate the half tones and out put them, expose them to the imagOn plates, develop and proof. If everything goes well we announce the sale of that print and accept orders for that edition. Check back in a bit....

reservior full...?

2008-04-09T08:15:00.000-07:00

Today I came in had to deal with a blinking light on the epson 7600, the maintenance tank full. This is a problem because with out the printer working or being able to find that part to replace it we could set back a day which would kill our print time. I should say that everything got fixed and we are back on schedule and I should stop updating the blog and finish the lamenation on the remaining plates...

EST

2008-04-09T08:13:00.001-07:00

dear everyone...please note that dan and i are working on Eastern Standard Time and usually sleep between 2am and 8am. I again apologize to whom ever called at 4:39am, i was a little out of it and thought i was dreaming...justin

squeege time...

2008-04-08T23:11:00.000-07:00

There is a secret to this, work out from the center in small circles until you push all the water out between the film and plate and create a nice tight seal. The only problem is once the contact between the film and plate is made it will no longer stick, hence why I use so much water to float it around...

wet on wet...

2008-04-08T23:09:00.000-07:00

we call this wet on wet lamination. The idea is that you float the film on top of the water and above the plastic plate. You push all the air bubbles out and then bring the plate up towards the film. This creates a layer of water between the film and plate. This water layer allows you to move and rearrange the film before you squeege it down.

dinner time and screws?

2008-04-08T23:07:00.000-07:00

french fry karma, (my wife is going to be pissed), we found a screw in our bag which is a little strange but rochester is a tuff place. we promise no more fast food...

cutting film

2008-04-08T23:06:00.001-07:00

my ImagOn came in a 2'x50' role which was cut down to 2'x3' sheets...

2008-04-08T19:31:00.001-07:00

the other work room...

2008-04-08T19:29:00.000-07:00

intaglio press in the graduate studio. this is the press where i printed all my work from 2004 and 2005. it has some great modifications including the blanket system wrapped in plastic.

bertha...

2008-04-08T19:28:00.000-07:00

the exposure unit that makes it all possible, bertha for short...

work room

2008-04-08T19:27:00.000-07:00

where i have been cutting down plastic and where I'll start the lamination process after we get from getting some food...

erin holscher print...

2008-04-08T19:26:00.001-07:00

erin was a grad about four years ago, here prints are great, this one is a pastel intaglio type...

studio tour...

2008-04-08T19:24:00.001-07:00

entrance to the printmaking studio at RIT, 4th floor of building 7A.

Travis stops by...

2008-04-08T18:43:00.000-07:00

Travis stopped by to hang out for a bit...Travis is the man and makes some great music and art. He played guitar in the hue of two with dan and I and has couple sweet new bands, little yellow bird and science vs. witchcraft. he also makes some sweet art, http://www.flickr.com/photos/travisjames/.

peeling plastic...

2008-04-08T18:28:00.000-07:00

The image surface i use for this process are .030 ml sheets of PETG plastic. I started with 10 4'x8' sheets that I cut down into 40 2'x3' which is our maximum output size. each plate is covered in two sheets of plastic that need to be peeled and removed. This creates massive static electricity (it even got my junk). After the plastic is peeled off each plate the plate then needs be degreased. This does two things, removing the glue residue from the plastic sheets and removing any grease from the surface of the plates which helps keep the ImagOn adhered to the surface.

print from adam werth

2008-04-08T18:23:00.000-07:00

Adam and I were in grad school together, he is now teaching in barbados (not as great as it seems, anyone who's done a lot of international ordering living on island could tell you some stories)...this is one of his large thesis prints it's 6'x6' 4 color intaglio type...

and so it begins...

2008-04-08T18:16:00.000-07:00

Today marks the beginning of a week of printing out here at RIT. Dan and I got in around 3pm and started working on my new set of images. Since Dan is a photo shop wiz and has been giving me crap about my lack of care in image prep he is taking over the digital end, making the color corrections and fancying things up a bit. The goal is to get almost 15 new images done in 6 days. Bare in mind that it took my over three months to print 7 images for my thesis....

2008-04-08T18:04:00.000-07:00

This is a print from my thesis. Taken outside a show in kent Ohio in a blizzard sometime in the winter of 2005. dan danger makes prints, www.tinymediaempire.com if you don't know that already....

samantha holding new print...!

2008-03-22T19:15:00.000-07:00

Here is Samantha, our new buddy around the studio, holding up my latest print of Carrie. Samantha does some great line drawings and collages that you can see at http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewAlbums&friendID=6636743. (hope that link works)

Linda, with the view from our bedroom window...

2008-03-14T17:55:00.000-07:00

My Wife, Linda S. Price, holding up my new print in our kitchen. Linda has a flickr account where you can see some of her work, http://www.flickr.com/photos/linda_suzanne/, and look for her to have some new prints on sale coming soon...

Leah showing off her paintings....

2008-02-19T18:57:00.000-08:00

Leah does some modeling for me on the side and pay her off with paintings...she is a great printmaker, painter, and builder of stuffed objects, http://cherrywinters.blogspot.com/

brian k. (webmaster) with "to tape"

2008-02-16T15:35:00.000-08:00

One of Brian's payment prints for my website...www.justinstaller.com...you can see his work at http://www.briankeenan.com and listen to him at http://www.proudsimon.com/

green drunk girls...

2008-02-16T15:34:00.000-08:00

this is what my brother gets for xmas....

BYOB (ben yonda our buddy)

2008-01-13T17:50:00.000-08:00

Ben Y. with two nice naked ladies. you can see Ben's work at www.benyonda.com and listen to him at www.cricketspin.com

todd with his girl friend all dotted up.

2008-01-11T07:50:00.000-08:00

This is a custom commision that I did for Todd's girlfriend Gabe as a xmas gift.

brooke r.

2008-01-11T07:49:00.000-08:00

brooke with monoprint of aloha. giving this print to brooke was the last thing i did before I left Rochester. I am glad they gave it a home cause it was just sitting in the back of my car.

mr. and mrs. Cavallario-Rossi

2008-01-06T13:03:00.000-08:00

Monoprint of Aloha at the mowhawk place. you can see tony in the reflection and listen to his music at www.musicofaloha.com