For a limited time, if you want a tube chalk full of Withremote prints for $25, you’ve come to the right place. Even if you don’t, you should get a tube anyway and share it with your friends! I’ll put in a random selection of gigposters and art prints in your tube.
There’s a collab going on over at Teefury where you can design a part of one of their new shirts. I’m a big fan of them!
Here’s mine. Go and do one yourself, all you have to do is recreate one of their 4 logos. Get on it.
I thought I’d rant a little about what I’ve seen on several sites lately that feature “prints”. What is a print? What should you look for when you’re buying a print from an artist?
Here’s a list of standard printmaking techniques. This list could be expanded to include more but these are ones that would be primarily done by hand:
Let’s just say for argument sake that you were buying this poster by 1920s by Russian Constructivist artist Alexander Rodchenko and were expecting it to be an original print, or at very least a reproduction using standard printmaking techniques; either a screen print or a lithograph I would imagine.
But when you look at the red in the upper right corner under a printers loupe it looks like this to the right. If it does, you have likely either bought an injet/laser print or an offset print done on a press.
This type of “ink on paper” should be classified as a “print out” rather than a print. It would not stand shoulder to shoulder with the value of editioned prints from the 4 above. If you scan in a painting or drawing you made by hand and then print it out on your Epson/Canon/HP photo printer, it does not make that output a print, rather a “print out” (digital to print out, or DTP).
From Wiki:
Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper. Printmaking normally covers only the process of creating prints with an element of originality, rather than just being a photographic reproduction of a painting.
I think that description is pretty spot on, except I would add that printmaking is a process made by hand. If the ink didn’t get on the paper by means of a roller, squeegee, or some sort of press, it’s not printmaking.
I’m all for making your art any way possible, digitally and or handmade, but I feel like artists that then just output this art and call it an edition are cheating the art buying public. Every print is exactly the same because it’s being output by a machine that’s built for reproduction. The buyer is missing out on the “inherent uniqueness of the printmaking process”, the things that just cannot be achieved DTP. The tactile elements of printmaking are completely lost, such as embossing. The way that opacity and translucency of inks lay on each other on a print can be faked by DTP, but it can’t compare.
When you’re buying prints, just be aware of these things.
I want to start using some of my Sqiggle drawings to make a series of prints based on them. I had a little space left on the sheet for another print I was running, so I drew something to fit that size.
After this drawing was finished, It was a matter of messing with colors digitally and then then getting it ready for printing. I dig the result!
I have two screens coated right now so I want to try and use those up and try another bigger one tonight.
I started playing around with the iPhone app called Brushes after seeing it in action. So far I really like it! It’s fun to paint with just the tip of your finger, and I could come up with something pretty interesting quickly with the app. The draw back I have with it is the size of the output from the app (it’s pretty small) so I don’t know how much production I could actually do with this app. I can see it being used for just sketching an idea when I’m out.
Here’s some things I did with it just messing around:
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Here’s some recent ones. Ya know, if you happen to run a gallery and want to feature some of my work, you can get a hold of me here.
Each of these are 8×10 inches.
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