Plus I’ll be LIVE PRINTING my new inkybear180 series, along with a North Carolina design. And Ty thinks the SparkCon crew will be bringing me a SparkCon burning head guy stencil.

Bring me a light-colored blank article of clothing and I’ll put some designs on it in black ink only.

Who: Garrett Shirts + 30 other vendors
Where: Moore Square in downtown Raleigh
When: 10-5

I hope to see you there for some live, monochromatic yet still dramatic printing

G

So I created 3 new stencils, all smaller than the one I made for the original inkybear stencil: Cloud, Spike and Lightning.

Here’s a hero shot of the Lightning group (the best of the bunch):


inkybear Cloud

inkybear Spike

inkybear Lightning

inkybear Stencils Used

inkybear Art Director
This is ms. bella, making sure I take regular pet breaks and don’t overwork myself. Thank you ms. pretty cat!

My Conclusions
As a whole, I’m not happy with the inquiry. At least, I’m not excited with the results. I think there’s some interesting stuff starting to happen with the lighting inkybear but the others aren’t doing much for me. In all I remain the most excited about the live printing I did at the Design Box. There I didn’t flip any stencils at all, but rather used spray mount. I still think there’s something starting to happen in the first inkybear stencil flip experiment, but these shaped stencils aren’t a step I’ll be going with very far.

Here’s my little booth. So neat and tidy before I started printing! Thanks to Brandy for coming along and taking pictures and cutting/folding brochures/giving away buttons/giving away pistachios/inviting her friends/being awesome.

Most people are actually MORE astounded than the lady there in the middle, though far less sweet. She asked great questions about stencil printing but I had no idea what to tell her.


I think this gentleman may have wanted me to screen print his wing wang. He was very nice and very comfortable in close quarters. Perhaps he spent time on a submarine?

Yum!

I don’t know who these two guys were. They stood right by my booth until I pretended I saw a little robot passing out grape kool aid.

Eva made a sign for me and reminded people that the bun buns cost $25. Thanks Eva! She makes contemporary, handmade jewelry in Raleigh NC.

The friendly CRG family rolled out, thanks to a MySpace announcement and emails from Brandy and Dave. I threw bun bun buttons out to them like candy from a parade float. Thanks for coming by!

Reva narrowly escaped without a shirt – I’m making one special for her.

Here’s Mr. Will Alphin looking over my shirts. Man this guy was a tough customer! He made me fold and refold every shirt and he tried them all on to get just the right design placement to augment his physique. Check out his website Alphin Design Build for some suh-WEET house designs! Maybe he will make one for the bun buns?

At last, a satisfied customer!

Beers, bun buns, my bald spot and my baby. This picture’s by Mr. Sam Bennett and I don’t have permission to post it… man I hope he doesn’t sue me.

Since it was our date night, Brandy and I got some pizza from Moonlight Pizza afterwards.

Here’s the Eliza and Bankman shirt I made for Carmin, my step daughter >>

I’m now at work on an Eliza and Bankman shirt for the Queen of Fort Cloudy, creator of the Ninja Fetus.

I got the idea from screen printed and stuffed cameras I saw in Flickr, linked to from one of my favorite stuffy inspiration blogs: Plush You! of the Schmancy Exhibit. They were kind of like this… but only on one plane.

At first I thought of screen printing little creatures onto regular fabric and then made the leap to printing them directly onto shirts and wearing them for awhile before cutting and stuffing them.

This is one of the toughest stencils I’ve ever cut… the lines are so small and the curves so tight I went through dozens of xacto blades…

I’m going to continue with the concept of printing stuffed creature templates right onto tshirts – my brain’s filled with new ideas along these lines and I can’t wait!

I’m ordering a mess of shirts soon for printing – if you want one of these shirts let me know! email: gfrench (A-T) gmail.com. Also wondering about names for these creatures. There are seven of them so I’m toying with a days of the week concept.

Yay for clothes that come with instructions for cutting them up and turning them into something else!

Do you have any pics of you wearing Garrett shirts?

If so then will you take a picture or two and send them to me?

I have a new tshirt project and I’d like to send you my latest design in exchange for hooking me up with your pic! Send2: gfrench@gmail.com.

Thank you!
G