Economic Stimulus

This is something I hadn't thought of doing until my wife suggested it. I found a nice board with a routed contour around the perimeter, painted it black, and mounted one of my excavator drawings to the front. I rubber stamped the numbers and added a clock kit from Michaels. Voila.

This is part of a lot which will include four framed and matted prints (dozer, loader, water truck, and roller) I'm donating to my son's school auction.

UPDATE: The school auction was last night. My clock and 4 framed prints sold for full price. Woohoo! I was a little concerned because they started bidding at about 30%.

mini excavator

mini excavator, originally uploaded by Rymann.

I've been making too many excuses lately. In my defense though, I have been preoccupied with my zine. Diane at the craftypod recently posted some wonderfully kind words about my zine. Check out the craftypod podcast. Its so full of useful and interesting information.

Anyone in the Portland area? Hope to see you at the Portland Zine Symposium.

Constructin Equipment Guide Zine

Constructin Equipment Guide Zine, originally uploaded by Rymann.

Well, I've finally compile my first zine. More of a zinelet really given its small size and weight. It's a 1/4 size booklet printed on 10 pages of dark brown (kraft) paper. It includes all my construction equipment drawings I've completed lately.

watertruck_final

watertruck_final, originally uploaded by Rymann.

Finally, the next to last piece of equipment in the series. After a short hiatus from the moleskine I decided it was time. I took some intermediate scans so you can see the progress. Didn't think to do that until I was a ways into it.

So this came about for two reasons really. First, I thought it would be a cool idea and something different. Unfortunately, I didn't think to do this until I was already started on some of the details. Second, it was late and I kept going in to comfort my daughter at regular intervals. This provided the perfect opportunity, as I was already stopped and distracted, to scan the drawing in its current state. In fact my daughter sat on my lap through portions of the drawing.

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scraper

scraper, originally uploaded by Rymann.

Scraper: Staedtler pigment liner in moleskine pocket sketchbook. Another piece of equipment.

This one was a struggle. I really wasn't that happy with it as I was drawing it...but it turned out o.k.

roller

roller, originally uploaded by Rymann.

...:::ENLARGE:::...

SD-100D Roller: Staedtler pigment liner in moleskine pocket sketchbook. Another piece of equipment.

loader

loader, originally uploaded by Rymann.

544C Loader: Staedtler pigment liner in moleskine pocket sketchbook. Another piece of equipment. Saw this one on a site today.

grader

grader, originally uploaded by Rymann.

dozer

dozer, originally uploaded by Rymann.

...:::ENLARGE:::...
750C Dozer: Staedtler pigment liner in moleskine pocket sketchbook.

excavator

excavator, originally uploaded by Rymann.

A big CAT excavator.

zine cover mockup

zine cover mockup, originally uploaded by Rymann.

I've always wanted to create a little zine. With my recent (though small) series of construction equipment I've decided to use that as the start of a short "identification guide" of the construction equipment I come across daily. It will be a photocopied, 1/4 size zine on brownish paper. Stay tuned.

spreader truck

spreader, originally uploaded by Rymann.

Cement spreader truck drawn from a photo in my moleskine sketchbook.

Dump Truck

Dump Truck, originally uploaded by Rymann.

I encounter these things quite a bit in my line of work. Thought it was about time I drew one.