I’ve been invited to participate in an Alice In Wonderland themed art show/print exchange so after much consideration I decided to do a Cheshire Cat print. These will show up on Squad19.com at some point for sale but for now this is how it all went down.

I saw this coloring book laying on the floor opened to this page one day so I snapped this photo:

Then I eyeballed it with a partially dried out brush pen to get this rough ink:

I started messing with the rough ink a bunch thinking I might want the print to be pretty rough or sketchy overall. I also started incorporating some texture via this scan of a pair of Penelope’s old pants.

I wasn’t completely digging where the sketchy looking illustrtaion was taking me so I went back and inked some more solid lines. All of this is taking place in Photoshop by the way, and I have yet to figure out how to satisfactorily document that process for a post such as this. So this is the clean inked illustration:

I ended up using the rough ink in some layers and the final ink as a finish layer. LETS PRINT IT!!!!

Skipping all the screen prep… boring.

COLOR 1: This is metallic silver with some yellow and extender base mixed in. The flowers are from one of my random sketch book pages.

Color 2: Process Yellow (actually Sherwin Williams latex house paint). This is the rough ink layer with some parts of another random sketchbook page.

Color 3: Magenta (also house paint) Penelope insisted she get to try so I let her pull a few test prints.

Monkey see monkey do.

Usually when I print during the day the kids color or paint… they don’t really pull the squeegee (yet). This magenta layer is the rough ink plus Penelope’s pants.

Color 4: Cyan (more house paint) This layer is pretty much just texture from the pants scan. Griffin went upstairs to watch Monster House for the 512th time so Penenlope got to painting…

Color 5: Black (speedball) This is the clean inked illo with a little bit of grit and a frame added.

That’s it. We’re done. Final print is 12×13, Signed and numbered edition of 50. Now get back to work!

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I figured I should post photos of the completed project since having released it back to the Carmichael Lynch riding pool I hear it’s already been dropped. BOOOOO! Hisssss! (Thumbnails link to a larger photo)

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IN MPLS? GO SEE THIS SHOW
First Communion Afterparty make some damn fine music.
You can buy one of these posters I made for them while you’re there. Take a hit.

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It’s that time of the week when I head on over and sift through the recent arrivals over at GIGPOSTERS.com to select the first 9 posters that catch my eye to the point that I actually want to click the thumbnail and see it closer.   You can usually continue the chain of clicks through to the artist’s website and BUY these from them too in most cases. DO IT! SUPPORT THE ARTS!!!

This time around 2 radically different styles from the always impressive HYDRO74 and an some incredible efforts by Zeloot and Tyler Stout who consistently make me feel like I suck. I wish the Vulcan Gas Company had a bigger image posted. I’d like to see some of that detail.

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Michael DeForge / Gay Beast	Greg Franklin / Holy Fuck	Hydro74 / Trivium
Hydro74 / Peaches	Tyler Stout / Flight of the Chonchords	Jason Knudson / Meat puppets
Tyler Stout / Flight of the Conchords	Zeloot / The Decemberists	Vulcan Gas Company Austin / Shivas Headband

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I’d wanted to do a poster for the Kills for some time now and finally got to put that feather in my cap with this collab I did with Mr. Aaron Purmort for Squad19.

Available NOW for you to buy and hang in your, home or office.

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I guess I’m going to do this whenever the hell I feel like it instead of JUST Fridays as I have something else planned for a regularly scheduled Friday post. I am going to try and do it once a week though… So I had to click through a ton of crap in the recent arrivals over at GIGPOSTERS.com to select the first 9 posters that catch my eye to the point that I actually want to click the thumbnail and see it closer.  Again… not a critique… just an observation.

Did it grab my attention and make me want to know more? The first sign of a successful poster.

OH… also, You can usually continue the chain of clicks through to the artist’s website and BUY these from them too in most cases. DO IT! SUPPORT THE ARTS!!!

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Methane Studios / Camera Obscura	Patent Pending / Nine Inch Nails	Drew Millward / Black Moth Super Rainbow
Paul Michael Dellostritto / Wolves In The Throne Room	Drew Millward / Opeth	Guy Burwell / Melvins
James Weinberg / X	Iskra Print Collective / Henry Rollins	The Small Stakes / Deerhunter

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I was turned onto this project by @headsofstate. Kevin Bauman takes some pretty amazing photography of abandoned houses in Detroit. Prints for sale: http://www.100abandonedhouses.com/

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Something new for Fridays. I’m going to click through the recent arrivals over at GIGPOSTERS.com and select the first 9 posters that catch my eye to the point that I actually want to click the thumbnail and see it closer. Not a critique… just an observation. I imagine this is the same effect as if I was walking past them on a pole or bulletin board. “Did it grab my attention and make me want to know more?” The first sign of a successful poster.

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Delicious / Mogwai	Ron Liberti / Roadside Graves	Status Serigraph / TV On The Radio
The Silent Giants / Animal Collective	Adam Stockton / Sonic Youth	Uncle Charlie / G Love & Special Sauce
Guy Burwell / Flight Of The Conchords	Malleus / Sleep	Jim Franklin / Mance Lipscomb

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So what would a motorcycle be without a bitchin’ skull graphic on it? I’ll tell you. It would be a motorcycle without a bitchin’ skull graphic on it, which is fine, but that’s not how I roll.

Step 1: Transfer the graphic onto the tank using graphite transfer paper.

Step 2: Using Sign Painters 1 shot start painting.

Steps 1 and 2

One coat of green and white down.

Up close. Needs another coat.

Getting into the black linework.

Finished tank graphic.

ready for reassembly

Step 3: Put it back together.

There you have it!

Top view

So all that’s left now is some wiring on the ass end in the form of a side mount license plate/tail light and some bullet turn signals with fancy green lenses. Then of course we have to get it running which could turn out to be a bit of a crap shoot. We shall see.

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Gig Posters Volume I: Rock Show Art of the 21st Century

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