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Shewolf T-Shirt Giveaway
Shewolf T-Shirt Giveaway
Having written the names of all those lovely people who entered onto some lurid green scraps of paper last night. I put all the entrants names in my upturned woolly hat for the red one to draw out a name at random and I can now announce that the winner is…..Cat_2802.
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Drum roll please… I’ve just printed up my first ever batch of t-shirts and in a way of a celebration, and because I’m over excitable, I thought I’d offer up one shirt for FREE to a lucky follower, friend, fan, fiend, or farmyard animal.
This is a limited edition run of just 50 shirts which have all been screen-printed by my own fair, and purple, hands. The design has been printed with black pigment and then heat-pressed with some lovely shiny silver foil (as you can see pictured above).
The sexy Shewolf design is taken from the series of hand drawn Bestial Drawings that I’ve been working on over the last twelve months or so.
To be in with a chance of winning one of these shiny new shirts you’ll need to leave a wonderfully exuberant comment below or retweet one of the millions of tweets that I’m likely to post to Twitter in the next few days. Alternatively you can post a direct link to this article in a tweet. If you’re posting directly on Twitter be sure to mention me (@Spike_Dennis) so that I don’t miss your tweet.
The deadline is 23.59 (GMT) on Sunday 4 December 2011. I’ll put all of your names in a big wintery woolly hat and pick a winner sometime on Monday morning.
if you don’t win this giveaway don’t fret as the shirts will be available to buy from my Spikeworld shop from Monday next week in small, medium and large sizes. This is a limited edition print run of just 50 shirts so be sure to snap one up quickly; when they’re gone, they’re gone!
Terms & Conditions: There are none. I shall be as fair and honest as I possibly can be but I reserve the right to make things up as I go along.
Having written the names of all those lovely people who entered onto some lurid green scraps of paper last night. I put all the entrants names in my upturned woolly hat for the red one to draw out a name at random and I can now announce that the winner is…..Cat_2802.
Click the picture above to view more images
Drum roll please… I’ve just printed up my first ever batch of t-shirts and in a way of a celebration, and because I’m over excitable, I thought I’d offer up one shirt for FREE to a lucky follower, friend, fan, fiend, or farmyard animal.
This is a limited edition run of just 50 shirts which have all been screen-printed by my own fair, and purple, hands. The design has been printed with black pigment and then heat-pressed with some lovely shiny silver foil (as you can see pictured above).
The sexy Shewolf design is taken from the series of hand drawn Bestial Drawings that I’ve been working on over the last twelve months or so.
To be in with a chance of winning one of these shiny new shirts you’ll need to leave a wonderfully exuberant comment below or retweet one of the millions of tweets that I’m likely to post to Twitter in the next few days. Alternatively you can post a direct link to this article in a tweet. If you’re posting directly on Twitter be sure to mention me (@Spike_Dennis) so that I don’t miss your tweet.
The deadline is 23.59 (GMT) on Sunday 4 December 2011. I’ll put all of your names in a big wintery woolly hat and pick a winner sometime on Monday morning.
if you don’t win this giveaway don’t fret as the shirts will be available to buy from my Spikeworld shop from Monday next week in small, medium and large sizes. This is a limited edition print run of just 50 shirts so be sure to snap one up quickly; when they’re gone, they’re gone!
Terms & Conditions: There are none. I shall be as fair and honest as I possibly can be but I reserve the right to make things up as I go along.
Tags: Design, Handmade, Print, Textiles
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Bestial T-Shirts
Bestial T-Shirts
I spent the Saturday just gone holed up in the print studio experimenting with some of my drawings as screen prints. After experimenting with a handful of drawings I settled on producing a test run with one of my bestial drawings. I produced a very short run of tee shirts using the she wolf drawing from this series.
The shirts were created using a two stage screen printed process. The black shadow was screened first, once dry the outline drawing was layered over the top using Texiflock for foil. The shirts were then heat pressed using a silver mylar foil to seal the foil to the area printed using the Texiflock. They were printed completely freehand so the silver line drawing was lined up with the black shadow as best as possible by eye meaning each tee is just ever so slightly different from the others.
Click on the thumbnails below to view some further images of the finished t-shirts.
I’m really happy with the results and am contemplating producing a proper limited edition run of these shirts in the not too distant future.
In the meantime I have a couple of spare shirts following this test run. Maybe I’ll run a little give-away via my trusty Twitter feed or perhaps I’ll auction them off for charity… who knows. Watch this space.
I spent the Saturday just gone holed up in the print studio experimenting with some of my drawings as screen prints. After experimenting with a handful of drawings I settled on producing a test run with one of my bestial drawings. I produced a very short run of tee shirts using the she wolf drawing from this series.
The shirts were created using a two stage screen printed process. The black shadow was screened first, once dry the outline drawing was layered over the top using Texiflock for foil. The shirts were then heat pressed using a silver mylar foil to seal the foil to the area printed using the Texiflock. They were printed completely freehand so the silver line drawing was lined up with the black shadow as best as possible by eye meaning each tee is just ever so slightly different from the others.
Click on the thumbnails below to view some further images of the finished t-shirts.
I’m really happy with the results and am contemplating producing a proper limited edition run of these shirts in the not too distant future.
In the meantime I have a couple of spare shirts following this test run. Maybe I’ll run a little give-away via my trusty Twitter feed or perhaps I’ll auction them off for charity… who knows. Watch this space.
Tags: Art, Design, Drawing, Handmade, Print, Textiles
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Structure I
Structure I
Title:
- Structure I
Dimensions:
- W.594mm × H.841mm
Materials:
- Pencil
- Paper
Title:
- Structure I
Dimensions:
- W.594mm × H.841mm
Materials:
- Pencil
- Paper
Tags: Art, Drawing, Fine Art, Handmade, Paper
Posted in Artwork, Blog | No Comments »
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Plastic Milk
Plastic Milk
I’ve been conducting a little experiment over the last couple of days to create a plastic from milk using a little heat and a splash of white wine vinegar. It’s gone pretty well so far. Although my final lump of plastic pictured is a little cracked because I left it setting too long before moulding it.
When heating and mixing milk and vinegar elements within the two liquids separate and bond forming small whitish lumps as in the second picture above. This can then be sieved out from the clear liquid and moulded. It takes about two days to set at room temperature.
It’s not cost effective to produce huge amounts of plastic but could have it’s uses in my plastic. One pint of milk makes a lump of plastic roughly the size of a gold ball.
Now I just need to see if I can implement this into my work as I have evisioned it.
I’ve been conducting a little experiment over the last couple of days to create a plastic from milk using a little heat and a splash of white wine vinegar. It’s gone pretty well so far. Although my final lump of plastic pictured is a little cracked because I left it setting too long before moulding it.
When heating and mixing milk and vinegar elements within the two liquids separate and bond forming small whitish lumps as in the second picture above. This can then be sieved out from the clear liquid and moulded. It takes about two days to set at room temperature.
It’s not cost effective to produce huge amounts of plastic but could have it’s uses in my plastic. One pint of milk makes a lump of plastic roughly the size of a gold ball.
Now I just need to see if I can implement this into my work as I have evisioned it.
Tags: Handmade, Research, Work in Progress
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20-21
20-21
This is a little sneak peek at piece I’m working on for 20-21 Visual Arts. They very kindly invited me, along with a bunch of other fantastically creative folk, to create a pair of tote bags for them. They provided me with two canvas bags which as you can see I have started embellishing. There was no brief and so I have created a design that is in keeping with my current practice. If you’ve seen the t-shirt I created for Jazzcakes last year you’ll have a good idea as to where this is headed!
As I understand it one of the bags will displayd in 20-21′s gallery and the other will be available in their shop. I’ll provided full details once they are confirmed.
This is a little sneak peek at piece I’m working on for 20-21 Visual Arts. They very kindly invited me, along with a bunch of other fantastically creative folk, to create a pair of tote bags for them. They provided me with two canvas bags which as you can see I have started embellishing. There was no brief and so I have created a design that is in keeping with my current practice. If you’ve seen the t-shirt I created for Jazzcakes last year you’ll have a good idea as to where this is headed!
As I understand it one of the bags will displayd in 20-21′s gallery and the other will be available in their shop. I’ll provided full details once they are confirmed.
Tags: Art, Craft, Fine Art, Handmade, Textiles, Work in Progress
Posted in Blog, Work In Progress | 2 Comments »
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Christmas Cards
Christmas Cards
These were the Christmas cards that I made for friends and family this year. I made a batch of those above which were cut from black card with silver mirrored card behind for friends although a few were backed with plain white paper as I underestimated how many I was going to need.
The card below was a one of a kind however, which was also cut from black card and was backed with white glittery card which unfortunately isn’t all that apparent in the photographs. I was rather chuffed with how all these cards came out as I’ve not really had a go at paper cutting like that before.
I should also say that I can’t take 100% of the credit for the designs of these cards. Although originals they were inspired by a number of designs that I came across on Deviantart. I’ll link those up for you all a little later.
These were the Christmas cards that I made for friends and family this year. I made a batch of those above which were cut from black card with silver mirrored card behind for friends although a few were backed with plain white paper as I underestimated how many I was going to need.
The card below was a one of a kind however, which was also cut from black card and was backed with white glittery card which unfortunately isn’t all that apparent in the photographs. I was rather chuffed with how all these cards came out as I’ve not really had a go at paper cutting like that before.
I should also say that I can’t take 100% of the credit for the designs of these cards. Although originals they were inspired by a number of designs that I came across on Deviantart. I’ll link those up for you all a little later.
Tags: Craft, Drawing, Handmade, illustration
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Shadow Play Screen Printing
Shadow Play Screen Printing
I spent last Saturday helping my good friend Amelia to screen print hundreds of canvas bags for the illustration symposium that she’s organising next week. Half of the bags will be used for the delegates conference packs and the other half will be made available for sale in order to raise funds for the illustration department at Cardiff School of Art & Design where Amelia teaches. We’re headed back into the studio this weekend to work on some special edition black backs with mylar foil and flock screen prints which hopefully will look fantastic by the time we’ve finished.
It’s been good to have a screen printing refresher as it’s so long since I’ve done any. It’s definitely excited the old grey matter so don’t be surprised to see some new screen printed goodness from yours truly in the not too distant future.
I spent last Saturday helping my good friend Amelia to screen print hundreds of canvas bags for the illustration symposium that she’s organising next week. Half of the bags will be used for the delegates conference packs and the other half will be made available for sale in order to raise funds for the illustration department at Cardiff School of Art & Design where Amelia teaches. We’re headed back into the studio this weekend to work on some special edition black backs with mylar foil and flock screen prints which hopefully will look fantastic by the time we’ve finished.
It’s been good to have a screen printing refresher as it’s so long since I’ve done any. It’s definitely excited the old grey matter so don’t be surprised to see some new screen printed goodness from yours truly in the not too distant future.
Tags: Canvas, Design, Handmade, illustration, Print, Textiles
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Vintage Pretty Craft Fair
Vintage Pretty Craft Fair
Sp:ke will be hosting a stall at the Vintage Pretty Craft Fair this coming Saturday afternoon, 31 July 2010, from 12.00 until 5.00pm at Buffalo Bar, Cardiff
It’s rather a cool little event where you will be able to treat yourself to a range of handmade and vintage goodness. There’ll be a little something for everyone, from customised clothing and gift cards to plush toys. The bar of course will also be open so you can tuck in to a slap up meal or tasty cold beverage when you’ve finished exploring the fair.
Oh… and of course there will be goodie bags for the first 10 people through the door which will include lovely handmade freebies and money off vouchers so get in quick.
Sp:ke will be hosting a stall at the Vintage Pretty Craft Fair this coming Saturday afternoon, 31 July 2010, from 12.00 until 5.00pm at Buffalo Bar, Cardiff
It’s rather a cool little event where you will be able to treat yourself to a range of handmade and vintage goodness. There’ll be a little something for everyone, from customised clothing and gift cards to plush toys. The bar of course will also be open so you can tuck in to a slap up meal or tasty cold beverage when you’ve finished exploring the fair.
Oh… and of course there will be goodie bags for the first 10 people through the door which will include lovely handmade freebies and money off vouchers so get in quick.
Tags: Cardiff, Craft, Events, Handmade, Toys
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Make It Pretty
Make It Pretty
I’ll be holding a stall at the Make It Pretty Craft Faire at Chapter Arts Centre on the 24 July 2010. It will be open from 11.00am until 4.00pm and you’ll be able to get your hands on some of my plush toys.
I’ll be holding a stall at the Make It Pretty Craft Faire at Chapter Arts Centre on the 24 July 2010. It will be open from 11.00am until 4.00pm and you’ll be able to get your hands on some of my plush toys.
Tags: Cardiff, Chapter, Craft, Events, Handmade, Plush, Toys
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