Melanie Kasten

Been working real hard in the studio lately.  been coming up with some awesome new designs and thank goodness, the equipment in the studio is finally in working order.  So here’s some images i’ve been working on and i can’t wait to get some prints done.

I will be showing some of my work coming up next month in April at one of my favorite restaurants in Chicago, Handlebar.  So you can see my stuff in person there.

And for all of you who have shown interested in my designs on t-shirts, I have decided to make some t-shirts with the two oval images of the bikes and the deer.

If anyone can point me in the right direction of where to get some inexpensive, but comfortable t-shirts to do my printing on, i would very much appreciate it.  American Apparel is a bit out of my price range.  I think i may also do some t-shirt prints of some of my other designs as well.  Will let you all know when i’m ready to take orders.

Hello everyone!  Thank you so much for coming to check out my work, and I’m crossing my fingers hoping you’re liking what you see.

Many of the piece or images you see right now are images I am using for printmaking projects or just ideas I’m working through.  The painting are all images from a couple years ago or less, but have all been sold or commissioned.  So sorry, I can’t sell them to you.  But you can always request a commissioned piece…..I do that.

Right now I am working very hard every day in the studio at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC).  I have 3 studio classes this semester, all of which are in the same studio, as well as all of them are print for fabric classes.  I am doing  A LOT of printmaking right now, as of yet, I haven’t posted any images of recent work.  Sorry.  But I will soon.  I just had a critique yesterday that went really well.  I had printed some wallpaper as well as fabric and posters, which WILL be available for sale soon….just the posters.  I’ve been told I should think about doing some t-shirts as well.  We’ll see what happens with that.

I have also recently been asked to show my work at a pretty awesome bar/restaurant here in Chicago, but I won’t say what and where until it becomes official.  I tend to put my foot in my mouth a little too often sometimes.  I’ll keep you posted on those and all other developments.

M.