Without the state

Update on screen print series

I've finally started on this series of four prints that will be the basis of the Print Club offer I have mentioned before. As a teaser here is the first layer (of about 10) of the first print - or at least the digital file used to make the stencil.

Yes, I know it looks like a bar code, but trust me - once printed in a rich red-brown it looks very different. I've done 10 as the basis for an edition of that size.

The other layers have been produced more traditionally with indian ink:

Watch this space...

 

More prints on the way and a new 'Print of the Month Club'

I'm starting work soon on two new series of prints.

The first of these is inspired by my longstanding love of jazz and blues. I hope to have about six images in the set, in editions of no more than 10 for each image, so this will be a strictly limited production. I'm still putting some ideas down as sketches, but it is likely that these prints will incorporate various different print media, probably screenprinting or linocut plus some digital elements.

The second will build on these digital prints that you can see here on flickr. These are based on Neolitihic rock art found in Northumberland and Scotland. The pictures shows images made entirely digitally, but the new set will, as with the Jazz set, be 'hybrids' incorporating various print forms.

Image by ibanda via Flickr

I'm also looking at new ways of selling these prints. One option I'm considering is a sort of 'Print of the Month Club' where you would subscribe to receive over the year one or both of these sets. If you take only one set you would get a print every other month. I appreciate that this implies a certain amount of trust on your part but the deal I'm thinking about would include the option to cancel your subscription at any time and also to return any print that you were unhappy with for any reason. Guide price per print would be around £50.00, but that may vary depending on the final images. You would pay a proportion of the cost of production for the whole series, probably 30% with the balance due in stages with each print.

To find out more as I develop the idea, please sign up for my mailing list using the form in the sidebar on the right.  The next edition will be going out at the beginning of January so if you sign up soon, I may have more information available by then.

Hot night in BA #1

I've been experimenting with various ways of combining 'traditional' media with digital. Of course the definitive work on this is probably Digital Art Studio but even so I'm sure there is much to be still discovered.

I have many images that have gone from a photo through a process of manipulation and digital 'painting' to create a digital print. I have also used digital images to create a solar etching and used a scanned drawing to create a digital print. This however is among the first that is genuinely mixed media. The background in this case is a screenprint, while the figure is printed digitally. The digital inks appear to have bonded with no apparent problems to the acrylic base.

I have also made a version using a scanned monoprint for the background.

Image for sale. It isn't on my web site yet, so contact me for details.

 

 

 

All the stars in the sky

All the stars in the sky, originally uploaded by ibanda.

Monoprint - oil based ink on Somerset printing paper.

Now SOLD

Back to the Tango theme

Keeping on with the theme of dance and more specifically tango, here are all of my tango images from Flickr. Some of these are also on my web site, but many of them have never been seen outside of Flickr. As ever, if you see anything you like, get in touch and I will see what I can do.

 

Retrospective - Dance images - March 2005

I hadn't realised that almost all my best selling digital prints date from a narrow period in 2005. All these images were first uploaded to flickr in March of that year. I don't think I have had a period as creative as that since.

Versions of these images can all be found on my web site.

Retrospective - Nightmare in Wicklow - from March 2005

 

Early playing with Photoshop Elements and/or Paintshop Pro. I have actually sold a copy of this to someone, who loved it! Based on my photographs of the Market Square in Tinahely, Co Wicklow.

Print Sizes

A4 Mounted Print £30.00 A3 Unmounted Print £40.00

Retrospective - Bizarre #3 - from about 1967

Image by ibanda via Flickr

 

I don't appear to have done much in the way of print making - at least not uploaded to Flickr - in March 2005, so this scan of a much earlier photograph taken about 1967 in Birmingham, but uploaded to Flickr in March '05 will have to suffice. So far as I know he wasn't a real vicar, this was Aston University Rag week!

Another from the same location (Lewis's Underpass) and date to the right:

 

Retrospective - double portrait - from February 2005

 

Based on a detail from a snatched photo in a cafe. For a time I had an obsession with pictures like this, two heads rarely looking directly at each other. Some times they were the same person, sometimes, as in this one, a transient arrangement of shapes.

I linked some of them to this poem by Derek Walcott

Love After Love

The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other's welcome,

And say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was yourself.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.

Retrospective - Brief encounter? - from February 2005

The original photograph was quickly grabbed on Bristol Temple Meads Station. I think the wonderful golden glow comes from not having the white balance set correctly!

Available printed on matt finish art paper in two sizes. The A4 size includes a mount to fit a standard 30cm by 40cm frame (other sizes possible - let me know in the message to buyer). The A3 size is unmounted to keep shipping costs down. Price includes shipping to anywhere in the world.

 

Print Sizes

A4 Mounted Print £30.00 A3 Unmounted Print £40.00