Garrett Shirts

This is just a quick note to say that I’ll be vending a wide selection of Super Berry Bun Buns along with the remnants of my Echoboy and PoopSquad collections THIS SATURDAY at bazaarSPARK 2008 .

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

I got really excited after the inkybear stencil flip experiments… I thought how cool it would be if the stencils ended in some kind of “texture” or pattern that I could bleed over with my roller.

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):

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Last night was First Friday here in Raleigh, NC and Ty “Tea Stick” Beddingford invited me down to the Design Box for some live t shirt printing… and to sell a few shirts from the Super Berry Bun Bun collection.

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.
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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.

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!

I think I’m pretty hot. I’m lucky that my wife does too. But I have a sense that GarrettShirts could be a lot more aesthetically interesting if I’m not the only person modeling my designs.

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