New Drawings

Lately we're involved in a few different projects for Pilot , a literery magazine from Toronto. It's really good!
The first thing we did for them was illustrate a short story.
It will be in issue 4 , along with more of our stuff that I'll post latter.




Title page.



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Drawing of Rueben , the author of the story we illustrated .


Drawing of Lee , one of the publishers. When I first inked it I thought it looked like batboy , of weekly world news fame so I wrote "found in cave" , expecting Yannick to take it off when he digitized it. He left it on , hopefully other folks think it's as funny as we do.


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This is the most amazing thing I've ever seen!

Secrets.....

I've been bad at updates lately , dunno why. Probably because we're working on so many large scale projects that I can't unveil yet.

Instead here are a few pics of other things.

a) The Eva Braun tape cover , being printed::




And
b) A button set we did for our band last fall and just reprinted::

Still More Scotland Adventures

Here are some pics of the screenprinting workshop we gave at
The Peacock last weekend.

All photos by Emma Balkind.






































Fun + cold times in the studio!

Marmite Skies

Late Monday night , we arrived home after 24 hours of being awake to a surprisly mild Montreal .

Our trip to Aberdeen was awesome , the show had a great turn out , we got lots of press and best of all had a 12 course vegan Japanese feast with Emma and Joe, I could barely walk after! The place is called Yatai and both the service and the food were excellent. We just told the waiter we were vegan and that we wanted a lil' of everything and both our servers and the chef were so acomodating. The bill was surprisingly low considering the the quality & quantity of the food.

Despite a huge case of nerves on behalf of both of us , I think the screenprinting class went quite well and am hoping at least a few of the people in the class are gonna be inspired to continue with printmaking.

The Peacock had us do a new art print , that they will take with them to the Glasgow Art Fair , they also extended an invitation for us to come back and produce a lithograph! That and our recent grant approval are the 2 best things to happen in my life in a while.

Some pics of opening night::



















Us and Emma , curator extrodinaire and the one who made it all happen.


Now we're settled back into civilian life , doing a corporate job to make a bit of money and then working on personal stuff for our BALTIC show in May from here till we leave for tour in two weeks.

Life is pretty sweet.

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gigposters.com , the best website ever , now has 100,000 posters online!!!! Check it out!
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How I work : a very cool blog post from our buddy Mike Fisher , metal illustrator

Deep in Tillydrone

Every time I cross the ocean I wanna move. I don't mind the damp gloom of winter in Scotland , unlike in Montreal where just going outside into the cold HURTS , here you can walk about and not freeze your limbs off.



Tea flows like water and Marmite isn't a rare and spendy commodity to be hunted down and savored slowly , but the very staple of human sustinance . Yes friends , the best things in life ARE brown.

We're working on a new art print here at Peacock and the facilities are great but the studios chhhhhhilly , I wish we had the time to do more. Maybe dip our toes into the etching pool or do some lithography.

Yannick starting to put up a few prints on Tuesday:




Today we did a really simple 2 colour print just to get used to the studio:

















Our opening's tomorrow , then on Saturday we teach a class.

Check us out in the Sunday times.

In Aberdeen

During our short residency, our first encounter was with 'Table Salt'. What? Well, apparently it's used in gravadlax.

Last night we had a blast having a late nighter finishing a commissioned print for the Peacock Contemporary Art gallery.



Aberdeen is having a thin layer of snow right now and my feet are constantly cold because of the everlasting wetness of the air. I guess wearing wool socks is useless right now.

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this is us on tuesday we were searching for our words during an interview broadcasted throughout scotland in the aberdeen BBC radio studios---



the opening is tomorrow evening at Peacock Visual Arts, 21 Castle Street, Aberdeen, Scotland

Stuff to do , and undo

Xerox tour poster for our own fuckin' band.

We're going across the USA and Canada in March/April. We'll have posters with us , as usual.

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We're in a new book , this one put together by Clay Hayes from gigposters.com. It's available for pre-order now .






Here are the deets:::

Ships April 2009
11 x 14 inches
208 pages
Paperback

Includes 101 perforated and ready-to-hang posters along with hundreds of other poster images and designer biographies. Packaged in an oversized 11-by-14-inch paperback, Gig Posters Volume I is a spectacular compilation of rock show art (and a great way to decorate a dorm room or apartment).

Designers:
3d Glasses, Adam Turman, Aesthetic Apparatus, Alan Forbes, Allen Jaeger, Amy Jo, Andrio Abero, Andy Vastagh, Beyond The Pale, Billy Perkins, Bobby Dixon, Bongout, Brad Klausen, Brian Ewing, Budai, Burlesque of North America, Casey Burns, Cricket Press, Crosshair, Dale Flattum, Dan Grzeca, Dan McCarthy, Dan Stiles, Daniel Danger, Delicious, Denny Schmickle, Diana Sudyka, Dirk Fowler, Drew Millward, Drowning Creek Studio, DWITT, Eleanor Grosch, Emek, Engine House 13, FarmBarn Art Co., Firehouse, Furturtle Printworks, Gary Houston, Gregg Gordon, Guy Burwell, Hero Design Studio, Invisible Creature, Ironforgepress, James Rheem Davis, Jamie Ward, Jared Connor, Jason Goad, Jay Ryan, Jay Vollmar, Jeph, Jermaine Rogers, Joanna Wecht, Johnny Crap, Jon Smith, Josh Rickun, Judge, Justin Hampton, Justin Kamerer, Largemammal Print, Leia Bell, Lil Tuffy, Little Jacket, Lonny Hurley, Lonny Unitus, Luke Drozd, Lure Design, Malleus, Mark Pedini, Mat Daly, Methane Studios, Micah Smith, Michael Michael Motorcycle, Mig Kokinda, Mike King, Nate Duval, Patent Pending, Powerhouse Factories, Powerslide Design Co., Print Mafia, Rob Jones, Ron Liberti, Ryan Nole, Sasha Barr, Scrojo, Seripop, Squad 19, Stainboy, Steve Walters, Strawberryluna, Tanxxx, Tara McPherson, The Decoder Ring Design Concern, The Heads Of State, The Little Friends Of Printmaking, The Small Stakes, Thomas Scott, Tim Gough, Todd Slater, Vahalla Studios, Zach Hobbs, Zeloot

BONUS ART PRINTS:
Pre-order now from GigPosters.com and receive an exclusive limited edition screenprinted art print by Jay Ryan! Jay will be creating 3 different 10"x13" art prints for the book release. The first 1200 pre-orders get free art prints! (400 of each)

xo,
chloe