New Test Prints up on the site.

 

Just added these testprints to the shop.  More to come tomorrow! 

Test Print Sale Blowout !

 

Ok.  Did I really just use the word "Blowout"?  Sigh.  Well, I am listing a ton of really rad test prints we have had in the flat files for a while.  Ive listed about 65 so far, more going up over the next few days.  Check em out in the store! http://groundup.bigcartel.com/category/test-prints

Owls and the Renegade Craft Fair and a Mystery Tube sale!!!

I've been posting so much on my Facebook Fan Page that I've neglected the blog! A very busy September kicked off with new prints and participation in the Renegade Craft Fair in Chicago, now in its 8th year! Its come a long way from the tents in wicker park, this past weekend's fair was huge with over 300 vendors on Division street and crowds in the thousands! Thanks to all who came out! Here's a pic of my friend Erin Paige Armstrong , who helped me this weekend, and my eldest daughter drawing Gypsy Moths in the tent:



5 Owl Totem:
I was asked by the Renegade Handmade crew to make an owl-inspired piece for the HOOT show in their Spotlight Gallery (alongside work from Dolan Geiman, Shawnimals and many other talents.) I had a good time making this Owl Totem, featuring 5 owls (From bottom to top: Great Horned Owl, European Barn Owl, Snowy Owl, Scopes Owl, and Pygmy Owl.)



The print is 14 x 25 inches, and is 4 colors in 2 different colorways. The print is available in the Etsy Shop.

Last but not least. Every year at the Renegade I have a table with clearance prints. They range from test prints , misprints, and stuff I've had for a long time and need to clear away to make space for new work. I am offering up a version of this online, except this is amped up with a few other things as well....

The Mega-Mystery Print and Shirt sale!:

This is a pretty cool thing. Each tube will have 6-7 prints and a random shirt. The Prints will be : Testprints, misprints, slightly less than perfect prints, 2 editioned prints, and a shirt in your size randomly picked from my new line of shirts coming out right now. I have about 50 tubes worth packed up- some pretty neat stuff in these!

IN ADDITION: one lucky person will get a copy of my flying buffalo monoprint which is on wood panel, 18 x 24!!


available now in my etsy shop!!

Drummer

A poster for Drummer's show at Schubas. Check out their record on Audio Eagle, its really great. Pat Carney from the Black Keys, Jamie Stillman (Party of Helicopters are 2 of the talented members of this group.

Weekend work

Lots of work on a cold Chicago weekend at the shop and drawing table.

Listening to a lot of Sun Ra and John Coltrane. Hoping to maybe catch Han Bennink at Corbett Vs. Dempsey tomorrow.

Editioning Black Keys Posters, check. Finishing Umphrey's McGee Poster, Check.

Starting to print "Rebirth" art print, check.

Here's a preview on "Rebirth" , the drawing about 2/3 completed.

Some of you will recognize the image from an Explosions in the Sky Poster I made last year using charcoal and ink. I always wanted to do another very very detailed version of this drawing, so I'm having fun with it. More photos to come later tonight and tomorrow.

Black Keys London

Well, I've been incredibly sick since election day- the only thing that made me feel better from this virus was obviously the outcome! GoBama!

I've been super busy catching up- here's one of the things I made- A poster for the Black Keys' show in London- 4 colors on French Gumdrop Green paper. This thing is sick with metallic details....






Up in the Etsy shop after midnight tonight!

Just workin'

This week is a busy one. Printing posters for upcoming shows by Robert Pollard's Boston Spaceships (excited to see this show, the record sounds great- has a GBV/Who "Sell-out" vibe to it), Okkervil River, and the first of 3 Black Keys posters (Ryden theater in Nashville, Akron, and London shows). A full plate of posters to add to the already full plate of proper art prints I'm producing. Here's a sneak peek at the Okkervil River Metro poster- this is the finished scratchboard/ink drawing; and as well here is a pic from the Pollard/Boston Spaceships board before I finished.