Cricket Press!

Now for something fun! TINY GHOST STORIES I’ve started a...

Thu, 23 May 2013 09:57:21 -0400

Now for something fun!

I’ve started a separate tumblr account where I’ll be posting more of my Non-Cricket Press related art. This includes all my comics & comic related illustrations, paintings, scribbles, and a variety of other art…including some process too.

Right now I’m posting Daily Treehouses! There’s already a good number up and I have a bunch more.

So if you like things such as: treehouses, summer, youth, flashlights, lightning bugs, ghost stories, and forests…join me over at Tiny Ghost Stories.

Thanks!

BIG THANKS!!! THANK YOU to everyone who came out to support us...

Mon, 20 May 2013 09:43:26 -0400

BIG THANKS!!!

THANK YOU to everyone who came out to support us at our Spring Clean Print Slam! It was 6 hours or intense awesomeness! Loved seeing all our early years of poster making displayed out over tables and tables and tables. And we really loved seeing folks go home with stacks of their own.

Again…thank you. We love you Lexington!

Cricket Press Spring Clean Print Slam! A couple more sneak...

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:55:44 -0400

Cricket Press Spring Clean Print Slam!

A couple more sneak peeks at what we’re digging out for this weekend’s event. These are some real classics…some older gigposters and art prints from sold-out editions…framed and for sale!

ONE DAY ONLY, at our Bread Box studio on Sunday, May 19th, from 12-6pm!

Cricket Press Spring Clean Print Slam! A few sneak peeks at what...

Wed, 15 May 2013 15:03:00 -0400

Cricket Press Spring Clean Print Slam!

A few sneak peeks at what we’re digging out for this weekend’s event. Some of these editions have been sold-out for a long time, but we found copies that are gently damaged and/or were used & bruised during display. And there are A TON not damaged at all!

ONE DAY ONLY, at our Bread Box studio on Sunday, May 19th, from 12-6pm we will display stacks & stacks of past posters and art-prints for an incredible sale! Selected older editions, scratch & dent, and posters previously used for display will be only $5 each!

Our Spring Clean Print Slam!!! Cricket Press has been making...

Wed, 15 May 2013 08:51:00 -0400

Our Spring Clean Print Slam!!!

Cricket Press has been making screen printed posters for over 10 years now. That’s a lot of posters… and it’s time to clean out the stock room!

For ONE DAY ONLY, please join us at our Bread Box studio on Sunday, May 19th, from 12-6pm as we display stacks and stacks of countless past posters and prints for an incredible sale! Selected older editions, scratch & dent, and selected posters previously used for display will be only $5 each!

We’re making it a celebration! We’ll have music, snacks and beverages. Come hang out. Talk shop. Search through tons of posters - perhaps you’ll find something you never even knew existed.

Cricket Press Studio+Gallery
501 West Sixth Street, Suite 185
Lexington, KY 40508

Sneak Peeks of the some of the goodies we’ve unearthed coming soon!

Artists Stand Against Poverty Today from 12-1:30 we will be on...

Fri, 10 May 2013 08:55:53 -0400

Artists Stand Against Poverty

Today from 12-1:30 we will be on ABC 36, WTVQ talking about the Community Action Council’s ASAP event where we’ll debut the custom poster we made the organization (sneak peek above)!

So, if you’d like to see us nervously and awkwardly talking on the ole’ television tube…tune in!

Poster Details:
3 color screenprint
12”x18”
edition of 100

Harry Dean Stanton - Original Screenprint -Pretty in Pink- Did...

Thu, 09 May 2013 08:46:00 -0400

Harry Dean Stanton - Original Screenprint

-Pretty in Pink-

Did you know that Harry Dean Stanton is from Kentucky? Did you know that Lexington, KY holds an annual Harry Dean Stanton Movie Fest? A small collection of his extensive career is featured every year and in coordination with the 2013 Fest a Harry Dean Stanton Gallery Show was organized. We contributed 4 pieces - HDS from our most favorite HDS movies, each stylized to fit the feel and title of the movie: Alien, Escape from New York, Red Dawn, and Pretty in Pink!

They are all now available in our Etsy Shop!

Poster details:
1 color screen print
on chip board
11” x 14”
Limited Edition of 21

Harry Dean Stanton - Original Screenprint -Red Dawn-Part of the...

Wed, 08 May 2013 08:59:00 -0400

Harry Dean Stanton - Original Screenprint

-Red Dawn-

Part of the Harry Dean Stanton Gallery Show! We contributed 4 pieces - from our most favorite HDS movies, each stylized to fit the feel and title of the movie! I’ll be posting each over the next few days.

They are all now available in our Etsy Shop!

Poster details:
1 color screen print
on chip board
11” x 14”
Limited Edition of 21

Harry Dean Stanton - Original Screenprint -Escape from New...

Tue, 07 May 2013 09:01:43 -0400

Harry Dean Stanton - Original Screenprint

-Escape from New York-

Part of the Harry Dean Stanton Gallery Show! We contributed 4 pieces - from our most favorite HDS movies, each stylized to fit the feel and title of the movie! I’ll be posting each over the next few days.

They are all now available in our Etsy Shop!

Poster details:
1 color screen print
on chip board
11” x 14”
Limited Edition of 21

Harry Dean Stanton - Original Screenprint-Alien-Did you know...

Mon, 06 May 2013 12:03:24 -0400

Harry Dean Stanton - Original Screenprint

-Alien-

Did you know that Harry Dean Stanton is from Kentucky? Did you know that Lexington, KY holds an annual Harry Dean Stanton Movie Fest? A small collection of his extensive career is featured every year and in coordination with the 2013 Fest a Harry Dean Stanton Gallery Show was organized! We contributed 4 pieces - HDS from our most favorite HDS movies, each stylized to fit the feel and title of the movie! I’ll be posting each over the next few days.

They are all now available in our Etsy Shop!

Poster details:
1 color screen print
on chip board
11” x 14”
Limited Edition of 21

Mud - A new art print being screenprinted soon! And a bit of...

Sun, 05 May 2013 16:47:10 -0400

Mud - A new art print being screenprinted soon! And a bit of process!

Details:
5 color screenprint
16” x 20”
Edition of 45

Process Saw the movie Mud and it’s the best film...

Sun, 05 May 2013 14:30:41 -0400

Process

Saw the movie Mud and it’s the best film I’ve seen this year, so far. I loved the characters and felt the story lent itself to the type of aesthetic I like to explore in my art prints…thus it inspired a new piece…and I thought I’d show a wee bit of process on how I illustrate for a poster.

The first pic is a piece of the art print I drew separately using a blue led pencil and inked with a pentel pocket brush pen. I love how dynamic and loose the brush pen can allow line-work. I then drew what would be the rest of the art print. I drew them separately because I wanted freedom on how to relate the two illustrations in photoshop. Did I want the boat in the tree more hidden in the background? Partially obscured? Or more upfront? I didn’t know yet.

After I ink my illustrations… I scan them into photoshop where I play with layout and color count. This art print is currently a 5 color screenrpint that I can show broken down into color order as soon as I’m officially finished.

And Poster Week concludes with… Our gigposter for Ben...

Fri, 03 May 2013 10:58:56 -0400

And Poster Week concludes with…

Our gigposter for Ben Sollee. These will be available at the show!

Poster Details:
5 color screenprint
16”x20”
edition of 150

Poster Week Day 4! We’ve been privileged to create the...

Thu, 02 May 2013 09:36:44 -0400

Poster Week Day 4!

We’ve been privileged to create the poster for the Rock the Earth Summer Tour series for three years now! For 2013 we wanted to focus on renewable energy - wind, solar, and alternative transportation (which is perfect for this bike month of May ;)

The poster is also printed on 100% recycled paper, created with 100% green hydropower (just like ALL of our posters, btw!).

Poster Details:
3 color screenprint
12”x18”
edition of 125

Poster Week Day 3! Now this is the most exciting…May is...

Wed, 01 May 2013 09:18:00 -0400

Poster Week Day 3!

Now this is the most exciting…May is BIKE MONTH!!! And it means time for one our favorite events Bike Lexington! And we’ve been fortunate to have designed the poster for the past 9 years!

Poster Week Day 2! Our poster commissioned by Kentucky Refugee...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:51:56 -0400

Poster Week Day 2!

Our poster commissioned by Kentucky Refugee Ministries.

This was a design-only job thus we were freed to use more colors than we might typically for a screenprinted poster.

Another Poster Week! We’ve been busy poster artists so...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 09:06:35 -0400

Another Poster Week!

We’ve been busy poster artists so we’ll be showing a new poster every day this week.

To start things off we were commissioned by the Lexington Art League to create an art print for this year’s Francisco’s Farm Arts Festival. These will be for sale at the event.

Details:
3 color screenprint
12”x18” with full bleed
edition of 50

Country Western Country Boy Brewing and West Sixth Brewing, two...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:49:51 -0400

Country Western

Country Boy Brewing and West Sixth Brewing, two Lexington-based breweries, have brewed the first ever collaboration beer brewed by two Lexington breweries.

The beer, which will be called “Country Western” in a celebration of the collaboration, will be a hoppy pale ale, and will be released during Lexington’s first ever Craft Beer Week on May 13^th-19^th.

And it was a privilege to design their label!

-COMICS-Here at Cricket Press we’re working on several...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:49:44 -0400

-COMICS-Here at Cricket Press we’re working on several different projects we can’t show just yet…so…in between client-work or waiting to hear back from clients I’m fitting in work on my comic The Ghosts of Pineville - BOOK 3!

Yes, I’ve written it and now I’ve started penciling it. This will be my longest book in the series with a page count of 125 (at the moment). So, it will take me a bit longer to complete than my past books. And realistically, Cricket Press is a lot busier than we were when I started (& completed) the first 2 books. But I’m super excited to be working on my beloved series again and super excited about where this third story takes my cast of characters and the town of Pineville!

I write all my books in three parts with a significant intro before Part One. It’s my goal to have the 25 page Intro completed (penciled, inked, lettered and halftoned) for debut at this year’s SPX as a teaser booklet…to get people jazzed about the final story!

And I’ll most likely post about my work along the way. Yay for comics!

TREEHOUSES A glimpse at all three of our pieces for “Femme...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:17:00 -0400

TREEHOUSES

A glimpse at all three of our pieces for “Femme a Nest”

The Bread Box and The Nest-Center for Women, Children and Families are coming together to create “Femme a Nest” for Gallery Hop on Friday, April 19th - 5-8pm. Proceeds of the sales of beautiful art representing a wide variety of media will benefit programming for women who receive services from The Nest.

Bread Box Studio Artists & Gallery
501 W. Sixth St.
Lexington, KY 40508