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The Working Proof: Ching Ching Cheng – Love

New print release! Ching Ching Cheng’s print, Love, is about the complexities of love – the ups and downs, the passion and the struggles. I love the simplicity of the shapes, and the complexity of the idea.

15% of each print sold will be donated to Farm Sanctuary. Ching Ching is a huge lover of animals, and has two dogs, a cat, a turtle, and 40+ fishes! Read our interview with Ching Ching here, and buy the print here.


Ocean Park 116

Richard Diebenkorn is one of my favorite artists and his Ocean Park series captures so much of what I love about the depth of art and architecture. This print of Ocean Park 116 is a pretty good deal that comes framed up at MOMA.

The Working Proof: Will Scobie – Midnight’s Dragon

New print release! Chinese New Year was a few weeks back, and it is the Year of the Dragon, considered to be the luckiest year in the Chinese Zodiac. We thought it would be fun to celebrate by releasing this print by Will ScobieMidnight’s Dragon.

I chose a dragon for this piece, because visually dragons are really inspiring to draw, being made up of lots of interesting shapes and lines. In my work, I am always aiming for graphic simplicity that incorporates different ideas, but I also try to keep a fun feeling by adding unusual details.

15% of each print sold will be donated to American Forests. Read our interview with Will here, and buy the print here.

And, the sketch that led to the print.

Silence Television

More cool stuff from Gianmarco Magnani aka Silence Television on his blog.

Runway Series – NOMO Design

The Runway Series of screenprints of airport runway patterns by NOMO.

via TWBE

The Working Proof: OSoo – Deer

New print release. We love OSoo’s detailed and colorful watercolors of animals, and the whimsical, architecturally-inspired details she weaves into her artworks. Deer is our 2nd print edition with OSoo.

The deer and its antlers reminds me of what it is like to be feminine and how fabulous nature is. The antlers are iconic and I wanted to represent them in a certain way that encapsulates my current interests in material qualities, fashion, style, and patterns of the Art Deco period.

15% of each print sold will be donated to Doctors Behind Borders. Read our interview with OSoo here, and buy the print here.



The Little Friends of Printmaking – Year of The Dragon

Beautiful Year ofThe Dragon print from Little Friends of Printmaking.

The Working Proof: Andrea Hornick – Bound and Protected

New print release! Andrea Hornick’s work centers around the addition of animal spirit guides to old masters’ portraits of women. Bound and Protected features Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres’ portrait of Betty de Rothschild. Andrea altered Ingres’ painting to include Betty’s spirit guides – a pair of blessbucks.

These blessbucks help her to be in two places at once; she is hosting a safari and must be present with her guests, so one animal helps her to do this. In addition, she has offered to find each of her guests a power animal, so the other animal takes her on these quests. She gets on the back of the blessbuck, whom she rides on a journey to be shown the power animal of each guest, returns to report her findings, and then goes out again to quest for the next guest. This approximates a self-portrait, as she takes on my role as shaman, is Jewish, and wants to be in many places at once.

15% of each print sold will be donated to Victory Junction, who provide a fun and safe camping experience for children with serious illnesses. Andrea chose Victory Junction because she believes that spending time in nature can be incredibly restorative and healing. Read our interview with Andrea here, and buy the print here.



Andrea’s process drawings.

NYPL Digital Archive – Classic Illustrated Zoologies and Related Works, 1550-1900

Very cool scientific illustration plates from the NYPL Digital Archive for Classic Illustrated Zoologies and Related Works, 1550-1900.

The Working Proof: Fab Sale

Hey friends! If you’ve had your eye on some Working Proof prints for a while, we’re having a very speedy sale on Fab.com, with 32 prints that are now 25% off. The sale only runs for two more days, so check it out while you can! 15% of each print sold still goes to the charity of the artist’s choice.