tUnE-yArDs and mini prints

 Hello all, I trust you are well in digital land

First off I have returned to my own shores. This means I have to get on with normal life and pay a load of outstanding bills (as in 'need to be paid' not 'really good') BUT it also means normal shipping times will resume for print purchases. Which neatly brings me on to the fact that new prints are available in the online shop at www.lukedrozd.com.

First up is the print I produced for tUnE-yArDs at Into The Great Wide Open festival. I hope it captures the manic, joyous energy of a band who were the highlight of a great weekend. It is available here.

Second up are the mini prints from the residency with Subwalk in Arnhem. These are available either as single prints or in sets of 3 or 5 and are available here.

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that's it for now. There will be a some pictures and info on my time at Flatstock Europe 6 later in the week and a new print for Franz Ferdinand available next week though so keep the peeper peeping

best, Luke

 

 

Subwalk This Way

Hello wonderous virtual friends and foes,

So my final week in Arnhem is coming to a close. There have been fun times, prints and artists talks all over the shop and i for one will miss be here at Subwalk, but a couple of days in Groningen beckon before Flatstock Europe 6 later this week.

Most of the week here has been taken up with finshing the design and printing of the mini art-print series 'This, That, The Other', a collection of one, two and three colour lino and photo-plate prints which i think, in general, have ended up working well. There are some pictures below of the works at various stages of completionas part of a very potted run down of the process for those print nerds who like that sort of thing:

1. Designs are taken from brain and made on paper with a pencil and pen:

2. Designs are then reversed and either transfered and cut out of lino:

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or designs are scanned, inverted and printed onto acetate. These are then exposed onto photo plates in the magic UV box and the washed out:

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3. They ready to print lino looks a little like this:

and the photo plates look a little like this:

4. Ink is mixed, again i use my brain here to think of the colour then my hands and eyes to make sure it matches what is in my brain. Beer helps but is optional:

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5. The ink is then rollered onto the plate/lino evenly and it's ready to print:

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6. Paper is carefully placed over the print surface and paper packing is placed on top to protect the print and give some pressure when the print-roller works its magic.

7. The print-roller is pulled/rolled over the paper. Underneath magic happens that i was unable to see due to my human eyes not be able to see through paper. The result is the ink has left the lino/plate and transfered to the paper BUT the right way round! Mind-boggling! Peg these up to dry, and get on with the next colour/print:

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Repeat as desired. Here we ended up with 11 designs of around 20 pieces each:

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I will have these with me in Hamburg for Flatstock if people are interested in purcuring them, and then online afterwards at the old online shop. Subwalk arranged a small pop-up show of then at a great bar/coffee place in Arnhem called Tape. If you are ever in Arnhem i recommend you check it out.

I also did a brief chat/artists talk/waffle time at ArtEZ, the art school here in Arnhem. I think it went well. I talked a mix of sage advice and inane jokes whilst showing work i had made, some of which had penises in/on it. The students seemed interested or at least had the good manners to pretend to be and you can't ask for more than that. Here's a photo i took after the talk of them waving at me but due to me being inept it is blurred and cack-handed. That seems somehow fitting though:

Right that's it for now, off to Hamburg,

bye for now,

Luke

Subwalk The Line

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Hello inter-chums, hope all is well. The worlds happiest chair greets you!

Well week two of my time in Arnhem, Holland is well underway and I have been working hard at the wonderful Subwalk studios. This week has seen an artist talk, a workshop and a great opening party for the new Subwalk studios.

So on travelling back to Arnhem I spent some time working on a new anniversary print for Ekko in Utrecht which is part of a series of works by a range of great poster designers. Not sure if I’m able to post pics of it yet so for now I’ll hold off but images and more information soon.

Aside from that I have been working away in the rather amazing Subwalk studios and developing a series of lino and photo plate prints that should form a limited set of prints...providing I don't total balls up the printing process itself. There are a couple of sneaky peeks of the lino-cutting stage for two of them below to get those chops salivating.

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Finally a huge thanks to all the wonderful people that came along to Subwalk’s opening bonanza of food, booze, posters and art. I had an amazing time and was great to talk to some of you about the weird world of gig poster design. Pictures ahoy!:

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I have one week left here now before I hop the border into Germania and attempt to sell posters to the wonderful people of Germany at Flatstock Europe 6. It will be ace...

Speak soon the international-computer-web

Luke