Prints Photographed and ready for the webshop.

Setting up Shop

Setting up shop this week. Now up on both Big Cartel and Etsy. Check it out if you're in need of any Unicorns in your life. More products up soon. The cat, pigeon and walrus up this week. 

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Printing the Walrus and then up til 2 drawing pigeon mark 2.

Started again on the Walrus. Blue colour plane was a pain the arse this time round, keep misprinting don't know why, it was smooth sailing Monday on the thin paper before I started trying to put more layers down. Up late again working night before so probably just being a tired mopey weakling. Was trying to print landscape - not happening. Ended up printing from the side of the bed to get it in portrait, covered myself in blue but got them out eventually.

 Mis - printing on Scrap.

Walrus on nice bit of bird covered scrap.

Success - background and subtle colour blend on walrus body. Nicer spacing on A3 - Need to learn to give images a bit of room.

 What a muppet. Exposed my next layers backwards. There's no registering these two. Had to strip, re coat and expose my screen before I could carry on. Fail. I'm getting extremely good at wasting time and money.

 Making sure they're the right way round.

 
Walrus on white scrap. Doing two of these to see what they look like as blanks.

Left at 8:30. Ate out, back home by 11:30 and then drew pigeon until 2. Tired. (but still writing this at 12:50am, clearly havn't made the connection between exhaustion and sleep yet..)

Texture layers

 Leggy pigeon final layout and rough colours for reference when printing. Planning on doing quite a few mini colour blends on this one and hopefully fit it a few different colours on same layer - e.g feet and eyes two different pinks in one sweep. Just have to keep the squeegee nice and straight. 

Back in to studio to print final layer of the walrus and planned to make a start on the pigeon. Pigeon didn't happen. Late in, no energy, hadn't eaten anything all day and flagging. Only had a mouldy aubergine and a biscuit in the flat. The biscuit got eaten. Bought a weird mexican rice brick from a stall on way in but pretty nasty - ended up in the bin after a mouthful.

 Printed Walruses with a few minor fails.

Finished print ready to photograph.

Norfolk & the Walrus.

Headed to Norfolk for the weekend. Bloody freezing but with the sun out who cares. Did my usual 'I only own one pair of shoes fail' and froze my toes off in sodden converse on the beach. Headed back again on Sunday evening but not before sketching out a quick Walrus for printing on Monday. 

 Pretty tasty country view from my window.

Walrus sketch before heading for the beach.
 

Incredible beach that went on for miles.

Speeding sand - Cool patterns from the wind.

 It really was massive.

Epic beach find. Last time I came across one of these someone sat on it before I got it home. No photo's of the big stinky bag of bones, feathers, crab arms and other stinky rotty stuff I happily stuffed in my pockets. Now ponging out my living room waiting to be rinsed and dried out for a time when I feel like doing a slimey things you can find on the beach print.

 Back in London 11pm - back to the walrus.

 Layer 5 - black lines.

 Because no Walrus would be seen dead without it's moustache.

Inking up dark grey/blue layer.

Walrus tash eyes up fish.

 Soft grey layer ready to scan. Stumbled into bed after this 1am.

Bleery eyed and very tired I put together something pretty offensive in the morning.

 Remedied with a clam. Was going to do something with fish but apparently Walrus' can't be arsed to catch fish. Hoovering is their preferred hunting method - no chasing involved.

 Into the studio to print in the afternoon - Big disaster. Thought my A3 paper was 260gsm. But no - only had 200gsm. Totally useless - a curling mis-registering nightmare followed. Couldn't handle the amount of ink/layers I wanted to put down.

 

Useless. Try again on Thursday. Silver lining was able to colour test - I got my colour blend on Walrus body too brown, doesn't fit with the blue. Needs more grey.

Because Walruses Rule!

Because Walruses do actually rule.


Night before brothers birthday - emergency birthday card needed! 

Make way for the three tiered Walrus Birthday Card! Just what every 28 year old man wants on his birthday. Not embarrasing at all..... 

    

Card cover in watercolour.

  

Interior: Who wants a birthday greeting when you can have a giganormus walrus instead?! 

Birthday envelope - Walrus posse. Nuf said.