Natural History Remixes: Part 1 from Blu Mar Ten, designed by ithinkitsnice, is is available to buy now on vinyl and digital download from all the usual places.

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.

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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Only three days since the last one.

Redefining ‘a day’ one day at a time. Good old polyprops.

I was digging through some old, unfinished self-initiated projects looking for some inspiration when I found this…

Pretty little clock, but the code was a bit rubbish and I’ve learned a lot about ActionScript since then so I decided to write myself an AS2.0 Clock class. Granted, Flash clock scripts are ten a penny on the net but seldom are they very good, and to be honest I just wanted my own. Here is the result in a fairly bare visual form…

Functionally, much better and more extendible. Little series of fun clocks on the horizon, I think.

Copies of Blu Mar Ten‘s new album ‘Natural History’ finally arrived, so I’ve added these pics to the rest of the work I have done for them.

The CD comes in a card sleeve and includes a 6 page roll-fold booklet and one art card, while the double vinyl comes with printed inner-sleeves and an A1 poster.

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I quite rightly got chinned by one of my friends down the pub last night for stalling on this project. Here’s a scribble I did there and then on the bar, of the gantry of all things (I had, naturally, had a drink).

It’s not that I don’t draw every day — I usually do for one reason or another — but this project is intended to be a series of little drawings that exist only for themselves, little spaces outside of any other thinking, even if they are just a one-line scribbles (see above). It’s making the time away from working that I’m not very good at. So to make amends not only am I going to attempt to get a drawing up every day (I won’t manage to upload every day but there should be a drawing per day),  I’m going to do one for all the days I’ve missed too. If I’m falling behind, please have a go at me. Lies.

Here’s a preview of the artwork for electronic music veterans Blu Mar Ten’s new album, Natural History, which is being manufactured as I write and is scheduled for an early November release.

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