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:
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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:

2009/2010 Subscriptions

2009/2010 Subscriptions to my work are now available! From March 2009- March 2010 subscribers will receive in 3 mailings over 50 art prints, all posters made, an assortment of t-shirts and an original drawing. Yep, thats a lot of art if you pay by the pound! Cost of the sub is $600, and yes, there will be items in the sub that are exclusive to the subscribers only. Contact me for more details and payment information.

On Deck

This winter is very very over for me. Chicago has been , uhm, relentless at times. Spent the last week getting over whatever amazingly strong virus my daughter brought home from pre-school. Felt like Sonny Liston after meeting Clay. Ouch. The anti-biotics and tea seem to be helping. Looking forward to a normal week of activity. Finishing poster designs for Murder by Death , Vandermark Five, and The Black Keys (Oakland show)

Here's a few process photos for 2 new art prints coming out this week.

Rebirth scratchboard :



A little further along:





Colony #2 (Airlift):






Rebirth will be editioned and available on Tuesday, Colony will be out on Friday. I'll update with more process photos of the printing this week...

Year of the Ox Screenprint

Finished these up today and I'm very very happy with how they turned out. 3 different colorways of the 3rd installment in the Chinese Zodiac series, welcome to Year of the Ox.
Blueberry version ed. of 225:



Close up:



Safety Orange colorway ed of 125:



Cement Green colorway ed of 125:



Available now in my Etsy shop!

Witch poster

I was commissioned by the band Witch to make a poster for the Toronto show of their tour. They're a pretty great band, J. Mascis drums on the records, which are sort of Sabbath-y rock at times, although the new record is more uptempo. I pretty much cant stop listening to the song "Seer", which I had on a lot while drawing this poster. I took elements of Pandora's Box, Eye of Fatima, and some other pagan imagery and wrapped up in this poster. I think it worked pretty well.

4 color poster, lots of subtlety in the layering of golds, whites, and yellows. Here's a close up:



It is available now in my Etsy Shop.

Year of the Ox

Completed Scratchboard for the next Chinese Zodiac Print, "year of the ox". Excited to print this and 2 other new art prints this week.

Here is a preview of one other in the works from the Colony series:





Chicago is thawing slowly- it is joyous.