Well it looks like the Ninja Fetus digs being featured so proudly on Eliza’s shield… check out the mention over at the Ninja Fetus blog: Ninja Fetus on Eliza and Bankman shirt >>
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.
My friend Kristin Munro-Leighton makes shirts using the same stencil and screen method that I use. LOTS of people use stencils and brushes or stencils and rollers. Only 3 people that I know of use stencils and screens.
Kristin’s work is awesome because it’s always highly personal, for friends and family and has inventive bridges or breaks in the design so that she doesn’t create any unattached islands.
I asked her to send me photos of her work and she did! Here they are, followed by links to her other designs that are already up. I don’t have the story on most of these shirts… and believe me, there’s LOTS of story about them!
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I’m so pumped about my new design - it’s giving me the jitters… here’s the long shot of it followed by a detail shot followed by the story of where they came from…
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!