Chris Stain
Have Paint, Will Travel.
June 14, 2010 at 1:00 PM
filed under Day to Day
I was going through the files and came across the first piece I ever cut and printed. I made this piece in 1988. My high school had introduced a “graphic arts” class which was basically a screen printing class. First they taught the old rubylithe way of making film where you hand cut the image, coat the screen with photo emulsion and expose it with a huge halogen bulb to create your stencil. The following year they had a machine that produced film from your drawing. I can’t remember how it worked exactly. I just remember chemicals in a small dark room and not really being able to get it right.
The image of the boy with the spray paint can was adapted from the cover of Spraycan Art back when graffiti was still somewhat seen as a mysterious activity for rogues and miscreants. The character itself was originally painted by MODE 2. You can see more of his work here http://www.mode2.org/
In other news I have some prints still available over at http://www.justseeds.org/artists/chris_stain/ heres a few samples:
Cries of the Ghetto is a combination of Martha Cooper photos and an old NYC graffiti piece. I printed this and hand colored it.
Threat of Chance is from a Mike Brodie photo. This one is hand colored as well. Check out Mike here http://girltears.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/the-polaroid-kidd-ridin-dirty-face/
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