How often do you have to check yourself to see if you’re doing what you should be doing? Maybe this print by Groundwork will help remind you to stop, look and immerse yourself in this moment, right now.
Have a wonderful week ahead.
Here, Now.
Monthly Archives: May 2011
Review: Pulled – A Catalog of Screen Printing
From one curator to another, I’m in love with Mike Perry’s eye. Just like his previous books that focus on a particular topic (the first one was hand-drawn type, the second on hand-drawn patterns), this one on screen printing is not to be missed.
Title: Pulled – a Catalog of Screen Printing
Softcover, 256 pages
As an old art form that has found a new audience in contemporary art, screen printing gets your fingers dirty and your muscles moving. Of course there’s plenty of tutorials online that teaches you the finer points of doing it (think No Media Kings, and also an unconventional method by Craftgrrl), but I’m more interested in the final piece. And this book has plenty of them.
While everything has gone digital these days, nothing beats the surprise and irregularity offered by a hand-pulled print. The book features the screen printing portfolio of 43 artists with various styles and personalities between them. After a brief introduction on the artist/studio, and the reader is soon taken on a visual ride of delight that fills each and every page of the book. The experience was made even more tactile by the use of smooth matte paper throughout the book that seemed to soak up ink while conserving its vibrancy.
All in all, this is a wonderful book for every artist to collect, and Mike Perry unearthed some really cool artists in the book that I hadn’t discovered before!
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Happy weekend and I’ll see you on Monday!
And I made a huge gaffe — the Visual Journaling class only starts on 23rd May, and NOT the 16th as mentioned before, so if you want to come along (see this post for a sneak preview) then there’s still some time!
Andrew Lyons
You know how some people think that Photoshop is all hard, edgy and too graphic-y for illustration works? Well Andrew Lyons here will prove you wrong. With beautiful, organic lines and lots of rich textures, this English illustrator – who is currently based in Normandy, France – adds much life and vibrancy into his illustration with the help of the digital software.
My favorite illustration from his portfolio is this piece based on an article about ‘twitter envy’, where people tweeting from high profile events can cause jealousy amongst their twitter followers.
Here’s a shop where you can find some prints, and here’s his Flickr stream as well.
