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I can’t remember exactly where this idea came from. I was researching St. Agatha with the idea of making some sort of prayer card style poster, but then I started looking at the Strength card in Tarot. This somehow led me to Sekmet, the lion-headed Egyptian Goddess of war and healing, who led me to female lion tamers. I quite like the idea of cancer being a wild beast that leaves its mark on anyone who gets too close, but my favorite part is the look on the girl’s face as she wrestles it into submission.

I printed these at the amazing Spudnik Press, which is a cooperative print shop here in Chicago. They are wonderfully friendly and may be one way for me to feed my printing addiction. Although the yellow layer containing the lion’s fur begged to be a woodcut, I ended up screen printing both colors.

These will be for sale at that charity event I mentioned before. On October 22, the new-to-St.-Louis organization, Bright Pink, is holding a benefit at Mad Art in St. Louis. You go, have a few drinks and get the chance to buy some really amazing art from some great local artists like: Amy Thompson, Cheree Berry, Blaine Deutsch and Sam Washburn, plus others. You can find out more here, and I’ll reveal the entire print after the event takes place.

Now for some in-process pics:

Sketch being finalized on lightbox

Making the separations. I do this digitally after scanning in my sketch.

Yellow screen, all loaded up with ink. It was printed on cream paper before the blue.

Print teaser