Land Ahoy! is a very short animation that started out as an experiment in 2.5D video in After Effects. I was so pleased with how it turned out that I took what was initially just a bobbing boat and gave it a bit more polish and some semblance of narrative (not a lot though).
All of the images are made from cut-out paper which was scanned and coloured in Photoshop.
I spent my first full day screenprinting at Glasgow Print Studio today since becoming a member last week. With some very helpful assistance from the workshop manager, Claire, I made this short, four-colour run of an image of one of my favourite things — the polypropylene stacking chair.
I managed to expose my separations and make a run of twelve finished prints. A couple of them went wrong for one reason or another (I managed to print separations upside-down) so I’ve got 10 good prints. Not bad, I think, for my first proper go.
I’ve still got some of the inks I mixed for this left and I’m hoping to go back in within the week to do something else in the same colourway.
This is the promo art I made for my good friend (and one-time flatmate) Paul Reset‘s long running record label Nerve Recordings‘ swansong, which is closing after nearly 10 years of releases on vinyl, and latterly digital — a huge and frankly rare achievement for any independent label. The 3-track release features Saburuko and another good friend of mine, Morphy, including his his too-long unreleased ‘Glasgow Rockers’.
In the past year, Paul decided to cease issuing records on vinyl and released Nerve’s entire catalogue of over 60 tracks for free download. Now he’s decided to wrap it up for good, but it’s definitely going out on a high. Congratulations on everything you’ve accomplished over the years with Nerve, Paul. It was an honour to create the artwork for this release.
And yeah, yeah, digital art made to look like grungy, printed matter is a old-hat. I hope you can see the intention for it to look like a vintage poster is actually the idea. Actually, I don’t care.
Nerve030 – Saburuko vs Morphy is available now. Listen to and download the tracks for free here.
For my big comeback post I’ve got some photographs of the day I spent learning to screenprint at the excellent Glasgow Print Studio a couple of months ago. The image I printed was based on some artwork that was rejected for Bop‘s single Song About My Dog last year, which I think I prefer over what was chosen in the end.
So here is the process from start to finish. Well, sort of — I had hoped to get pics of the screening and other things but I got swept away in the fun of actually making the thing. I was very impressed by the facilities at the GPS and I can’t wait to get my membership so I can get back and do more work.
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