Posts Tagged ‘Print’

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Shewolf T-Shirt Giveaway

Wednesday, November 30th, 2011
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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!

www.spikeworld.co.uk/shop

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.

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The Droll Dreams of Pantagruel

Monday, November 21st, 2011
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These wonderful woodcuts are from a book entitled Les songes drolatiques de Pantagruel. The authorship of this book is not indicated, only the dedication was signed by a certain François Desprez (albeit with the thinly veiled anagram of “Deserpz”). Those in the know believe that the design and style of the woodcuts and the imaginative presence of some monstrous figures support the theory that Desprez produced these.

I discovered these works via the always awesome Monster Brains blog where 100 of the 120 woodcuts that make up this volume can be viewed.

If you want to learn more about these woodcuts then head over to the Poemas del rio Wang blog here for an absolutey fascinating read.

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Bestial T-Shirts

Monday, August 8th, 2011
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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.

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Shadow Play Screen Printing

Thursday, October 28th, 2010
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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.

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FringeMK Catalogue

Sunday, August 15th, 2010
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I got my hands on a copy of the catalogue from the FringeMK exhibitions. It features my work ‘Blossom: The Space Between Us’ which was short-listed for the painting prize back in May.

Unfortunately I was unable to make it to the exhibition featuring the prize winning finalists Emma Talbot, Michele Fletcher, Jake Clark, and Brendan Lyons. Of course all of these artists feature in the catalogue too. It’s a lovely little book and if you’d like a copy for yourself you should contact the FringeMK organisers: www.fringemk.com.

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Moving Exhibition Book

Friday, July 30th, 2010
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I finally received my copy of the ‘Moving Exhibition book which features my installation Blossom: The Space between Us. As you can imagine I’m quite chuffed as this is first actual real book produced featuring my work.

It features the work of 100 international artists who submitted work for the Moving Exhibition programme of events which of course includes artists like myself who were lucky to be selected from this bunch to exhibit at a number of venues around London earlier this year.

There is some fabulous and interesting work featured in the book. If you’d like to buy a copy for yourself you can find it here, on Lulu for £29.43.

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Physical Networking

Friday, July 30th, 2010
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I got an exciting little package in the post this morning containing my new business cards. Following the migration and redevelopment of my website I decided now was a good time to invest in some new cards. That, and that I seem to have been asked if I have card several times in recent weeks and admittedly I’ve been slacking.

I have to say I’m pretty pleased with these cards. I ordered them on-line so I wasn’t sure what to expect but the quality is fantastic. The only error I think I made was with the borders when designing the back image. I can’t complain though.

So should you see me out and about at any exhibitions, openings or other events don’t forget to ask if I have a card!

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A Moving Exhibition Book

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
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The Moving Exhibition book has finally been published. This catalogue documents the series of exhibitions that took place across London throughout the first 6 months of this year featuring Spike’s epic installation ‘Blossom: The Space Between Us’. In addition to those involved in the exhibition the book also contains photographs of the various exhibitions and events as well as work by some of the artists who submitted work to be considered for the exhibition programme but were unfortunately not selected.

You can purchase a copy of the book here on Lulu for £29.43 plus p&p. It’s a paperback volume, full colour with 144 pages.

Details:
ISBN 978-1-4457-7068-0
Copyright ANTRIA PELEKANOU (Standard Copyright License)
Edition First Edition
Publisher ANTRIA PELEKANOU
Published July 14, 2010
Language English
Pages 144

Binding Perfect-bound Paperback
Interior Ink Full color
Weight 0.60 kg
Dimensions (cm) 21.6 wide × 27.9 tall

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Cut-Click Zine

Monday, April 12th, 2010
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Spike has been invited to contribute a piece of work to the first ever printed copy of Cut-Click Magazine. The work produced, entitled Possessor of Supreme Power, is a new work which marks a point of diversion within Spike’s work. The magazine will be of a limited run and available this summer. More details will follow shortly.

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Flaneur Zine

Monday, March 22nd, 2010
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Drawings by Spike have been published in the latest issue of the cracking independant zine The Flaneur. Copies are available from a number of stockists around the country or directly from their website.

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