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I just finished up working on a screen printed poster to promote a 24 Hour Puppet show by Patrick Elkins and the Dreamland Puppet Troupe. Its going to take place over New Years Eve (it will start Noon Dec 31st and go until Noon Jan 1st). The concept of the show is awesome. I don’t want to ruin it here, but it was a ton of fun to design for. I’d definitely recommend stopping by the Dreamland Theater and checking it out.

The poster is roughly 16″ x 22″. The background is basically a black flood with a mixture of White and Metallic Silver overprinting it. Then, we left the white screen registered on press, switched the ink to Glow In The Dark ink, and printed that directly over the White ink 4 TIMES. The final result is a poster that glows more than I think I’ve ever seen a screen print glow in my life that only took 2 screens to make.

The  Shadow Art Fair was this Saturday and it was a blast as usual. Here are some highlights for me. The Silent Giants were awesome. Super nice guys. I traded them screen printed posters and generally got to be a huge screen printing nerd, which was fun. I enjoyed several cups of coffee from John Roos which helped keep me going for the 12 hour event.  Chris from the Dirty Brothers was kind enough to give me a free button of the Anal-Oral Issue Kitty and a free tee shirt. I also got to take a sneak peak at the video he’s making for MOCAD about Ypsilanti. The package deal from Hugs & Gumbo was also great (which included a zine, a sticker, a bowl of vegan gumbo, and a hug).

I got my hands on a few albums I wanted to mention, too. The Swipple 2008 “music” CD which was released for the 5th annual Max Fish Show and featured music from anyone who had art in the show. I also picked up a couple albums on the local label Bare Wire Technologies. HR – Bicycle (a weirder noisier side project of Laserbeams of Boredom) and Ambit – Strings of Autonomy (11 Programmed Sequences). They’re both amazing albums with equally amazing packaging by equally amazing guys. Keep your eyes peeled for a book of drawings from Bare Wire Technologies, too. Me and Melissa along with 9 other local artists were invited to contribute drawings to a book they’re putting out. I’ll keep you posted on the details as soon as it’s released.

In addition to having tons of art stuff at the fair they were selling a special beer I helped make with my friends Hollis and Logan. It’s the third time we’ve made a special beer for the event. We generally try to keep them pretty weird or ‘Shadow’ themed (but pretty much everything we brew is kind of weird so that’s probably not that surprising). This time around our Shadow Stout had: Filberts, Blueberries, Raspberries, Blackberries, Clementines, Roasted Beets, Dark Chocolate, 13 different kinds of malt, and a Lager Yeast. It turned out great! I couldn’t have hoped for a better beer.