For a while now I’ve been wanting to try a new layout, a square one, and one that would fit right into an LP record frame. Well, that time has come.
It’s “Naptime”. We all get sleepy snuggly sometimes, and even natural-born enemies can be the best of friends. You just gotta let your softer side rule.
“Naptime” is the first print in that size and layout. From an illustration that I did a few weeks ago while hanging out on a lazy Sunday afternoon off, while we were totally being summer tv heads. Probably we were watching some cooking shows, or Holmes On Holmes (my new obsession) or such like television.
Anyhoo, I also decided rather than waste paper or have a weirdly shaped cast off, as the 12×12 inch size is smaller than my normal print & paper size, that I would run a smaller print at the same, 2-up. (2-up means printing 2 or more designs on the same page at the same time, cutting them down and apart after printing.) So, I did an ode to books for the secondary smaller design, as below, called “I Love My Books”. ‘Cause I do.
All sunny and warm, just like this summer. Both “Naptime” and “I Love My Books” prints are now available at my website here and also in my Etsy shop here. And, for some process photographs of the hand screenprinting process, take a look below. Click on any image below to see more & get more info at my Flickr account too.
i love the vinyl record frame size!
people love that those frames are also on the cheap side – makes for an easy sell.
the frame shops here sell 12×12 as well so i bounce back and forth between those sizes.
Agreed Miriam, that’s one of the reasons that I have been wanting to start making some prints at this size. Plus, it’s fun to work in a square illustration layout rather than a rectangular one like I typically do for posters and prints.
I know that Urban Outfitters and IKEA always carry the 12×12 frame sizes, and inexpensively too, totally.
Thanks for the comment!