Cristina Montejo

Here’s the last of the giant wheel prints – done entirely in silk screen using the photo-emulsion process and printed w/ water-based inks on black Arches cover paper. i love how vibrant and bright this print is against the black background!! it’s definitely my favorite print of the semester. the images are taken directly from [...]

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here’s a super spontaneous print begun one afternoon during open studio from a rolled out layer of blended ink onto a piece of muted blue/green lokta paper. it was as simple as that – i was just playing around while cleaning up my rollers and spontaneously rolled some out onto my fancy paper just to [...]

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here’s another version of the ferris wheel etching. the intaglio layer came out so much more crisp in this version! but, i’m not a big of a fan of the washed out background and placement of the silk screen birds. still, this was “fuzzy bob”’s favorite so i decided to post it (that’s what we [...]

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here is a fairly small print – about 3″x5″ – which began as a mono print from a plexiglas etching of a ferris wheel. i etched the plexi w/ a long, sharp nail and a reverse photo copy underneath so i could easily follow the lines. it was so tiny & intricate – it took [...]

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a second, darker version of the girl w/ butterflies & bats print.

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*here’s another mono print w/ a silk screen image over top. bat and butterfly shapes in a rainbow of colors serve as a background in this image of a girl and her quest to balance the light and dark sides of her being. sweet and naughty, good and bad, soft and strong – trying to [...]

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here’s another one of the prints from this past spring. this one began with a ghost mono print of sorts which was made by lifting up the cut-out bird shapes used for the migration poster images after running them through the press, and then laying them back down randomly on the plate ink-side up before [...]

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this past spring, i participated in an experimental printmaking class @ the college of the redwoods w/ the amazing bob rhoades. above are pics of the first piece i completed for the class. it all started w/ an oil-based monoprint underlay (made w/ bird paper cut-outs) which i then decided to silk screen over using [...]

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here are pics of this year’s valentine’s day cards… mini, rectangular three -color silk screen cards featuring the cutest cupcake on tiny paper remnants rescued from Z Studio. they were printed on my gocco using pearlescent pink, pearlescent baby blue, and black inks in a limited edition of 75. i loved the idea of handing [...]

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