Big Cartel vs Etsy

I've been running my shop through Big Cartel for a while now and although it's been fairly popular I am considering the switch over to Etsy. It would be really nice to hear some opinions on which you think is the better shopfront out of the two or even if there is a better choice.

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Badger Press Summer Open Studio

Saturday just gone was the open studio day at Badger Press. Everyone had a great day despite the disappointing turn out, jaffa cakes and moustache cakes were eaten, some screen printing was done and lots of tea was drunk. So for those of you who couldn't make it here are some photographs. 

Hope to see you at the next one!

Moustache cakes

Moustached Dillon

A selection of work by artists who use the press was on sale

My work on sale

The new addition to the press - A Risograph printer with 

black and blue inks. More colours coming soon. 

If you have never heard of a Risograph it works similar to a photocopier, 

but uses ink. Prints amazingly quickly and is perfect for edition runs.

Screen printing underway 

The new bunting

Jaws 3d screen print exposed and ready to print.

Roll up! Roll up!

This saturday we will be opening The Badger Press in Bishops Waltham for everyone to come and have a look round. We will have paper toys for people to customise, people will be screen printing so you can see the process in action, we will have lots of work by local artists for sale and also tea, cakes and biscuits.

Badger Press 

Unit 4, Claylands Road Industrial Estate,, Southampton, Hampshire SO32 1BH, United Kingdom


So cancel your plans for the weekend and come and join us to celebrate the british summer in style!

Citizen Ghost

A new print has landed in my shop this week "Citizen Ghost #1" is my first 

Glow in the Dark print. Here are some shots of the finished print, 

plus a few process pictures. 

Citizen Ghost #1 can be purchased here

Dark City Gallery

Well, the week is over and it's been pretty hectic. This week we ran a stall at a Scifi convention in Eastleigh, attended a film festival, did a camera test for a zombie film with Charmed Apocalypse and I got to record some singing if you can call it that on my friend Lord Lav's new album.
So all in all it's been a good week!

At the SF convention in Eastleigh I had the great pleasure of meeting Ross and Kellyann who run Dark City Gallery, they sell one off pieces of art and limited edition screen prints, including this screen print by Dan Mumford which I bought from them.

Four colour with glow in the dark highlights, 18x24" signed edition of 110.
Unlike the God Machine Predator screen print that I missed, I was lucky enough to see this for the first time at the show and grab a copy before they all went! The amount of work DCG had on show and the amount of knowledge they have about their prints was amazing. It was also great to see a lot of work by so many artists up close as you can never judge a piece of work on a computer monitor.

I'll upload some pics of my two new prints this week.

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New prints!

I have been busy down in the studio working on some new prints, so here they are.

The first to drop is Diamond head followed by a fluorescent pink variant of Slimer in an edition of 10.

Diamond Head - 4 colour, signed, un-numbered edition on 150 gsm acid-free 

Norfolk cartridge paper.

Green edition of 100, Pink edition of 10.

Both prints can be purchased here. 

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T

The making of Gatchaman

As promised, here are production photos of the Gatchaman print. If you would like to see more please visit my Flickr page. I have been busy working on other screen prints and will upload them in a few days, thanks for watching!

Gatchaman

I've been busy working away this week at Badger Press on my first run of screen prints, which will be revealed very soon. 


10 Years ago I worked screen printing t-shirts, the hours were long and the deadlines were tight, It's been great fun getting back in to printing and being able to take my time and enjoy it!


The first print depicts Ken from the 1970's japanese television show Gatchaman (or Battle of the Planets in America and England) with the rest of the team to follow throughout 2011. 
The print is a four colour hand pulled screen print on 150 gsm acid-free Norfolk cartridge paper. 
I will also post up production photos when I release the image of the print
between christmas and the new year, so stay tuned!