Wasted! Magazine - Issue 2

More 'Wasted!' spreads:

(click for full readable view)

Also, got my cat back, and i am reminded - why does big piece of paper to cats means "i must stand and sit and lay and play on this?"

Piers in Pencil

Piers in pencil 

Wasted! Magazine

So recently i've been volunteering my services to a friend Zoe, who started up this Zine called "Wasted!"...

Here's some of the spreads i did...

You can view or download the entire issue here: http://wastedmagazine.co.uk

Avenge Thee + Naime cont.

Here's a little sneak peak of what might be expected from the Avenge Thee + Naime merchandise for Open Carpet. :)

More to come, :)

Home screen making

Hey it's been a while, been busy with full time work ruining my life, and there was the Whitstable Biennale one day exhibition which was awesome, met some really interesting people, and they got me inspired. :)

two of these lovely people are in this photo (left to right) is Amy Curtis, Mark Sosbe and myself.
The exhibition was in this amazing caravan, the walls were all curved and interesting to post work up in. 

I submitted my final major project work, and had postcards for sale, was a good day had by all : )

Photos courtesy of Mark Sosbe


SCREEN PRINTING
Gonna be screen printing very soon, made my own screen this weekend. :D was dead exciting.Buying the emulsion and squeegees everything this week.

So yeh, i bought some big flat frames from a charity shop, the small one was £1.50, the big one £3.90. (get in!) the massive amount of material was £2.99.

And it's not very interesting in hindsight but, i jus cut out a square of the fabric a lot bigger than the frame, and stapled it down, i would reccomend using a staple gun, i didnt have one, but a friend Simon reccomended that using a stapler works just as fine (yes and no - works, but is very awkward and messy) Oh, make sure you neaten up all the pins, get rid of any tape, and stickyness.

and when stapling, staple from one side, then its neigbour, dont worry about the taughtness till you do the adjacent sides, and make sure its completely flat and nice. i know there's professional screen stretching and stuff... but mine looks pretty much the same as the professional ones i've used?

I'm pretty chuffed with the way it turned out. :) and it kind of shows that if i can do it... all of us can do it and give it a go at home. :)

So this frame in the pictures is jus the right size to have an a4 print in it, and cost me under £2. and i can use it until the fabric gives out - and i have lots of replacement fabric.

Of course i'll keep you posted, i'll be screen printing a limited edition the 'chode' design [link] for Avenge Thee + Naime hopefully on shirts and a few totebags too (maybe a few paper prints) :) let me know if you're interested and i'll put one/some by for you :)

Avenge Thee + Naime - Hair repeated Pattern

A little challenge i set myself...

Beard related goodies

On the topics of beards, (see previous post) i was doing some research on the topic, and remembered i follow a super blog called I made you a beard - fake beards for all http://www.imadeyouabeard.com/ so i went and had a look through all of the posts, and saw some stuff i would consider similar to my own, quite old work, that i'd forgotten all about.

So i thought i'd show you. :)

this is from my first year of uni, but i jus really like doing patterns... this one is based on Louis Bleriot, the first man to fly across the channel.

...and this is quite simply me with William Fitzsimons' beard.