s'been a while

Here's the latest batch of things distracting me from work and school.

Shook Ones - I'm only 19 but my mind is old. Artsy photo, right?



Modern Alchemy balloons. Transparency on the balloons worked out nicely.




Benefit poster for John Spalding.



Jackson's getting married!

Cutest Print Ever?

I think so. At least until I print two infant hoodies for Dot's month old twins.



Niece Olivia and her Mattson Mustang shirt. That's grandpa (my dad) with her at his football game.

July

July was a little crazy. Ships and Dragline both came at me with big orders during my intensive 3-week masters core. Both turned out nicely, though.

Diggin' the lost theme for dragline. Printed 150.

Live shots aren't really my thing, but these turned out nice. 250 blue/black on white.

250 gold/black on white.

14 blue/lt blue on Blu Raspberry test press edition.

boat

These went on red, navy, and green. They also did the San Diego Famous Chicken on some brown shirts. The dude who does their art has some pretty nice stuff. Check the pics on their myspace.

Boat

kool aide

pre-order only. made somewhere around 75-100 total. main colors were orange on teal & purple on gold. did two green on white baseball t's and one blue-green blend on white. also made little cards to go with each shirt.

bootlegs

bootleg and the original.

not really a bootleg...made a few of these, including one on a dress. might try to sell some.

High School

Young and dumb.

hit up my high school with these one night. oh, to be young a idealistic again...

What you can't see is the little x's on the skater's hands. wow. i printed four different designs on boards back in high school. One was even a full tip-to-tail. unfortunately, that board was stolen out of my car a few years back and i never got any pics of it.

Shooks Spread

Dear Shook Ones,

Here's your merch. Thanks for California.





New designs are shark ones (Wolf Bros), puking bones (me), and paint hoodies (japanese dude with edit/layout by me).

Newish

Beestings "Where It Goes" LP covers. Limited to 200. Started off as a 5-color with all transparent inks...didn't work. Then cut it down to 4-colors with only two transparent inks. Still didn't turn out as good as digital printing would have looked with this image. Some art is just meant to be screened, and some isn't. Anyway, this was a 2-month ordeal with multiple tests and revisions. I'm real happy with the inserts - 36 inches tall, used two separate screens. Also made no money off these cause I love kelly. modernalchemy go there, give kelly love, and buy some stuff.

October & November

New color for the panther. They also went with a green on green block t that reminds me st. patty's day. No pics of that one, though.


Shook Ones/Easel Split 7" Cover. 3 colors, limited to 500. My knuckles were bleeding after this run. The Silver/Metallic Blue are the test press covers #/13.


Winter Ball Posters. 4 colors, limited to 50-some on gray, 4 on orange. Erika drew this one up and it looks real good. Come buy one at the show.

VERA!

So VERA contacted me out of the blue to do a poster for this show. I'm not quite sure how they found me, since both chris ktub and kelly said they didn't give the guy who contacted me my info. anyway, i went to town on this one hoping that I'll get more opportunities to design for VERA. This is original art, 4 colors printed on mr. french blu raspberry stock. Mr. French has all sorts of fun new colors!!! #/29, to be sold for $2 at the show. Come and keep me company (and buy one!). oh, and see the bands i guess.

up next: beestings record covers?!? more shooks ones stuff. robot jones?

More Shooks...

The newest batch of shirts for the lifetime shows and the upcoming tour. I also did some of the block t's, toy machine rip offs, and demo hoodies. The tattoo script was also done red on white. The descendents rip off was done navy on ash, too. Frisbees were limited to 30. The frisbee and tattoo script are my artwork, though they're nothing to be proud of. last minute sort of deals.

distinction ov colors

how often do you get to print XXXXXL shirts? this was fun. for gustav, one of jaclyn's teachers at school. 40-ish shirts, columbia blue and white on navy. not my artwork.

rainfest

rainfest 2007 posters. three color combos on two paper colors. #/6, #/17, #/26 from left to right. these were easy to print, but frustrating in every other way. the big bummer is that after being asked to print posters for this, one of the guys putting this all on had other posters printed. so now i'm stuck with these hoping that i can sell them off on the last day (the only day I'm attending).

this was a last minute emergency project for jaclyn's school's fashion show. they needed something for the windows, so i threw together four prints on eight pieces of left over mr french. it took 4 hours, i used clipart, and they look like crap. but the greenish-grey looked nice once these were up on the windows. this is the seahorse, but there is also an octopus, an anchor, and a squid. i don't want these so let me know if you would.

shirts

This weekend's project was a reorder of shook ones shirts. I've printed this one once before in a variety of colors. This time: black on black, dark red on yellow, brown on white (new), tiffany blue on brown, and white on ash (new). Everything decided to be troublesome during this project. The pressure washer wasn't giving any pressure, making reclaiming a pain. Then, the white ink was incredibly hard to pull because the shop was cold. Someone failed to label the jade ink as puff, so the first few brown shirts are interesting looking to say the least. The flash unit blew up during the brown shirts as well, flames and smoke and everything. luckily, i only had 8 shirts left and was able to use the residual heat to flash the remaining shirts. i think that was it, though.

and frank decided he wanted to be in a picture.

shook ones test press

Shook Ones "FFF" Test Press. Limited to 15, though I printed 20 of these covers. Six colors on Mr. French Superbright. My sister-in-law Erika did the original artwork on notebook paper. I redrew it and added color. She will be doing a lot of artwork for me in the future, she just doesn't know it yet.

dragline

Dragline 7" covers and cd-r's. Not my artwork, but I did the layout. Limited to 300; they included the cd-r's with the 7". I think the printing came out pretty good. I like the colors, though I wish the gold stood out a bit more. This was my first time printing cd-r's and i'm stoked on them. Pretty easy to print. I used a bit of cover paper to make a mold, then printed with speedball waterbased ink. I got the cd's from discmakers.com; these are the full coverage ink jet. The waterbased ink doesn't scratch off. After the first 20, the cd's stuck to the underside of the screen, so I had to tap them off from the top of the screen. A little annoying, but didn't cause any problems. I would love to do more cd-r's.