X poster process

Finished Scratchboard and partial pic of artwork for the X show in Chicago tonight at the Double Door.:

Bottomless Pit /Poison Arrows poster

Three Mile Pilot Poster Process

I was recently hired by Temporary Residence to create a tour poster for the recently re-formed Three Mile Pilot. Here are some process photos for the printing of this poster. We printed it on 19 x 25 French 80# Cream Speckletone.
First Color down- a split fountain of Dark Red- Med Orange:



Printing second color (Teal/Slightly Bluer Teal split):


Second Color Down, looking good so far!:



Lining up 3rd Color on the press: (Acetate keyline drawing taped on top of first 2 colors)


3rd color down: Metallic Gold, lightened with cream ink:



Lots of finished copies:




Quick Snapshot of the finished poster:

Vandermark Five: Special Edition

Poster for my friend Ken Vandermark's upcoming set of shows at the Green Mill. This should be a real barn burner- with the Current Lineup of Tim Daisy, Kent Kessler, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Dave Rempis and Ken joined by Scandinavian Stalwarts Havard Wiik and Magnus Broo!

Coffee, coffee , coffee

My friend Sam Verrill puts on a series of print shows benefiting coffee co-operatives in Latin America- the shows are in the Philadelphia area and feature artwork from many of the best poster makers around today. I contributed this piece "Never Waste A Drop"- It turned out whimsical and fun. 4 colors on French's Safety Orange Paper, including an impossible to see, yet VERY NECESSARY layer of transparent metallic gold ink. 19 x 25, edition of 200.

The print is available now in my Etsy shop.

And....we're back!

I took some time off blogging as I was swamped swamped swamped with work and houseprep.

Many prints and a few new floors installed later I have lots to put up.

The last month has been exciting , working on new posters for the Vandermark Five extended edition show at the Green Mill, Sonic Youth poster for the first date on the new tour at the Vic, X, Shipping News, Bottomless Pit/Poison Arrows and a slew more , including a poster for the (recently reformed) Three Mile Pilot Tour!!!

Also about ready to unveil some new prints in the Colonies series and (Finally) finish up the "Last American Bear" print I've wanted to get caught up on.

Festival season is in high gear- I will have a tent at Pitchfork's Flatstock show ,right next to the Lemon Shake-ups and 40 other amazing print artists.

The Beer I designed the label for , Apocalypse Cow is almost ready for release and yes, there IS a poster coming out for the artwork. Stay tuned, LOTS OF IMAGES heading your way!

Apocalypse Cow... final

Mudhoney poster

Apocalypse Cow...

Preview of a new beer for Three Floyds I am making the label art for ....and Posters!

Mono with the Wordless Music Orchestra

I was recently hired by Temporary Residence Records to make a poster for one of Mono's performances as part of the Wordless Music Series on May 9th at Le Poisson Rouge with the Wordless Music Orchestra. I was obviously excited to do this! Mono's music is powerful and sometimes ethereal , so it was a challenge to come up with the right imagery at first- I ended up with a comic ( to me) take on the piece "Battle to Heaven" off of their latest LP "Hymn to the Immortal Wind".

Here is the Scratchboard drawing and the final 5 color 19 x 25 print:







The print really worked well. The 4th layer is a split fountain of tranparent metallic gold to Tranparent metallic silver, so there is a really nice patina of shinyness just below the rough surface of the keyline drawing.

Monoprints! Originals!

I just listed a bunch of new Monoprints and Original Scratchboards in my Etsy shop!

Mogwai Poster

Here's the final poster, which , of course, I need to take a better picture of to capture the silver metallic landscape against the off white paper. 6 colors, 19 x 25 inches, ed of 225. For sale now in my etsy shop!

Mogwai!

line art for the poster for tomorrow's Mogwai show in Brooklyn. Process photos and finished poster pic up later tonight along with photos of the Mono poster I recently finished. Back to the drawing table to work on this weeks art print!

The Reluctant Woodsman- XtraLarge

Boy do I have a lot of work to put up this week. I'll start off with this one that I forgot to post last week. This is a small run of my "Reluctant Woodsman print." This edition is larger in size, (22 x 30) printed on different paper (Stonehenge cotton 100% Rag with deckled edge) has a different color scheme. The run was 6 colors, including Metallic Gold and Silver. There are 60 prints in the edition. Price on these will be $75 in my etsy shop. UPDATE: 30 left of the edition to sell.

The Reluctant Woodsman

So I'm putting out 2 art prints based on the drawing I created for the recent tour poster for Scandinavian favorites, The Thing.

The Reluctant Woodsman is a 4 color print on Cougar Natural 100# cover stock. 17 x 23.5. There is a larger version (22 x 30) 6 colors on Stonehenge coming out later today. I'll edit this post once its up. For now here is the standard version.

Up now of course , in the Etsy shop.

Spring Harbinger Final

"Spring Harbinger"

Your soothsayer of good weather and tidings to come, this print is 17 x 23 inches on Cougar Natural #100 Cover stock. 4 screens were used, one being metallic gold. Signed and numbered in an edition of 150. I like this squawker.

Available in my Etsy shop.

Spring Harbinger-preview

Goofin around with color on the line art on a new print coming out soon, maybe even today. Final is going to be different than this pic. Metallic gold will be used, however...

The Thing: final

Well, I fell off the wagon documenting the Thing drawing and printing. If I can get the time later, I'll update this post and add it all tonight. Very busy editioning new art prints and printing my Mono poster for the May 9th show in NYC. And working on a pretty crazy poster for Mogwai. And the rest of the excuses I use for not blogging more frequently!

Regardless, here is the tour poster for Scandinavia's favorite trio of improvisers, The Thing. 4 color screenprint on Cougar Natural, 17.5 x 23.5 inches. The Yellow-ish layer is a metallic gold (which accounts for the flashing at the bottom), so yes, we have metallic green trees in this one, which is ALWAYS nice.

I have a larger (22 x 30) very limited run art print of this image in a different colorway coming out tomorrow....so stay tuned.

Alejandro Escovedo/Richard Buckner poster

This poster is now available in my Etsy shop.

More Thing Process

drawing table on a Friday at home:







And getting closer:

The Thing: Process

First step to making a poster: Draw. Fast.

Here is a raw sketch for the imagery for The Thing's upcoming tour poster. The Thing is a Trio of Mats Gustafsson, Paal Nilssen-Love and Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten.

More tomorrow.

Airlift

This week's print:
"
Airlift" is a 5 color screenprint, with 2 split fountains and a gold metallic overlay. Edition size is 175, signed and numbered. Printed on French Speckletone Starch White, 19 x 25 inches.
"Airlift" is the latest print in my "Colonies" series, this time the subject is a giant stork-like nest, delivering a new house (outpost) to re-populate the planet.

Up in my Etsy shop.

Airlift process

Busy week, editioned posters for Alexandro Escovedo/Richard Buckner show at Schuba's, working on designs for 5 other posters including a really great concert for Mono playing with a 28 piece orchestra in New York as part of the Wordless Music Series. Stoked about that!

"Airlift" printing continues!

Color #2, a split tangerine/barn red:



Lining up the film to see how it looks:




Color #3:

Pandora's Box Art Print and other things

Worked up a small art print edition of the image from the recent poster I made for Witch. Pandora's Box is a 4 color screenprint with metalic gold inks. 19 x 25 paper size , printed on French Chocolate Brown Construction. signed and numbered edition of 80. I've included a couple of photos here in hopes that I can somewhat give an idea of how the color pops off the paper. This looks really nice in person. I also made a subscriber only edition in Deep Crimson that also looks pretty damn sweet.

I have this edition for sale in my Etsy shop, natch.

Printing has proceeded on "airlift" , more updates tomorrow. Here's a peek at the first layer, as subtle Blue split fountain.

Spring! Cleaning! Mystery! Sale!

As I am TRIPPING over boxes of prints at the shop and am continually making editions of art prints, posters and shirts, its time once again for a SPRING CLEANING BLOWOUT. For $30 you get a random shirt just in time for spring(one that I have not sold online!), 2 test prints/scratch and dents and 2 posters from 2000-2007. Its a pretty good deal for some cool swag. If you like dragons and dogs,you'll like the shirts...

up in the Etsy shop.

Airlift process...

This week's print is "Airlift", the next print in the "Colonies" series.

Here is the final scratchboard:




I'll be putting up printing process photos later tonight

Today! Live! Layer! Tennis!

Our friends at Coudal Partners invited the very talented Phineas Jones and myself to partake in todays Layer Tennis Match.
We will be doing the all-analog edition as we push paper BACK AND FORTH AT EACH OTHER in a battle to the finish. Or something. Either way what better way to while away the hours of 2-4 pm today? Should be fun.

Rebirth art print and other things...

Finally finished the printing on "Rebirth". Very happy with the results despite having headcold #14. 8 colors, 19 x 25 inches on Speckletone Paper. Edition of 150. Up now in the Etsy shop.





Here's another progress shot on the lineart for "Airlift". Excited to finish the printing on this tomorrow.

"Ash" art print

As promised, here is the art print edition of the MBD poster image.

Ash is a 3 color screenprint. Printed on Stonehenge Cream and White 100% Rag paper in editions of 125, this print is massive at 22 x 30 inches. I ended up hand printing this due to a few complications with the size of this image creating some havoc with my autopress. When you have to hand print something, make it count by doing something REALLY FREAKING HUGE. Good to get a workout in on a spring-like day in any instance.

The vacuum table at the shop came in very very handy with this one.

Metallic Copper/Gold edition:



Metallic Blue/Silver Edition:



These are both for sale now in my Etsy shop.

New things this week...

Busy week.

First up: New poster for Murder By Death:



Based on the song "Ash". I am publishing a large art print version of this imagery tomorrow. I'll post pics up in the afternoon. There is a copper/gold edition as well as the metallic Blue/ Silver edition. Both are on 22 x 30 Stonehenge rag paper.

I am working on the final colors to get "Rebirth" published this week as well, target date Friday. Here is the final Drawing and the first 3 layers of color: