Emblem Studio

Over the past few weeks I’ve had the pleasure of printing the World Tour posters for Arms and Sleepers. I ended up with an edition of 105 of these prints. 8 Colors. They are 20in.-26in. Signed and numbered. With this print I went a little different direction then any other print I’ve done before. I encorporated a photo element of an American astronaut testing on a flight simulator back in  the day when people use to have to sit in these chairs side by side for days to test cabin pressure. The image is very subtle and hidden within the textures created below and above it. First by these 3 layers of hand brushed lines, 2 blues and 1 green. I actually brushed out these lines before settling on the astronaut photo but if you look when the brushed layers were all printed together before the other layers were places I feel like you can see a ghost of this astronaut, but weirdly they were not drawn to necissarily match the photo. The 5th layer of webbing that is all hand drawn was then placed down, then the dotted photo. The border and text were printed together after the photo using almost the same color. The last layer on this print is a clear glossy layer of dots covering the whole printed area plus some of the border. I’ve never printed with this base before and I feel like it came out pretty perfectly and adds this last almost hidden element to this print. Photo’s of this are below.

These posters will be available very soon through Arms And Sleepers on their webstore here. On the road with them on their tour. If you are not familiar with this band I really suggest checking them out. Their next show in New England is at T.T the Bears place. View all the info here.

And if your running a little short on cash lately then they have some free downloads at their website here.

First started out with a layer of white under all of the printed area. The paper used was a Speckletone Kraft Paper made by French Paper. The Best around!

Followed by the layers of brushed color which have the text Arms And Sleepers left out of it to let the text be white in the end, unlike the darker digital version.

Way more Process Photos after the jump!
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It’s that time of year again when the Portland Phoenix has it’s Best Of Poll! I’m nominated again for Portland’s Best Visual Artist. It was great winning this last year. Without sounding corny it helped me realize that it’s possible for me to actual take my art further and to just keep doing what I’m doing. So if you would like you can vote for me! Or also vote for the other awesome nominee’s! Or write in your own choice.

Dan Deacon @ SPACE Gallery. Portland ME. March 11th – Kris Johnsen 2011

with Ed Schrader’s Music Beat, Portland own Computer At Sea, Glass Fingers & DJ Ponyfarm.

Below you will find my original sketchbook page from where this design came from. I’ve always loved drawing pages in my sketchbook and later turning them into flyer’s, either by adding text or drawing the text information into the page, I have done this for many of my earlier flyer’s and larger screen prints, including Deer Tick, Moving Mountains, Caspian and a bunch more!

New Titus Andronicus Flyer for their upcoming show at Space Gallery with Brenda. Pretty excited about this show! I saw them awhile ago in Brooklyn when I had no idea who they were, and since then have listened to them quite a bit. For fans of Desaparecidos!

All 4 of my Winter Scene Screen prints are now available at my Etsy Store. They are available individually or in a set, if you are only interested in 2 or 3 we can work something out also! Please check them out!!!

The last 2 months I have been busy at work on this Art Print for The Portland Museum of Art Contemporaries. This is one large drawing measuring 13in.-32in., and is cut up into 4 different parts which will all be different screen printed editions on their own. This print will be given away to attendee’s of the Museums Contemporaries Winter Bash, you can read more about this party here.
Each design will be a screen printed edition of 125. All are 3 color prints and measure 8in.-13in. All will be signed and numbered. I will also have A small amount available after the event for sale on my Etsy Store here.