A perfect intro for beginners or refresher for pros.

If you want to play serious print – this is it. This intro/refresher class will teach you the entire process of print: from buying the right screen, exposing your own graphic onto it, selecting and printing ink and finally setting it, ready for wear or sale.

WHO DOES IT – Everyone from designers wanting a new medium, mums creating textiles for homewares, bands making their own merchandise, students doing exhibition pieces, people starting new enterprises and 1000 other ideas that come up…

WHY DO IT – Walk in with your design, walk out with a new world of skill. From here, many of our students have started legitimate businesses doing their own art onto different mediums from posters to tea towels, there’s even a few that are now professionla screen printers that print for other businesses—it’s a legitimate canvas and application space for ideas.

As part of the new Arcade / Print Edition ethos of pushing all boundaries all the time …. we’re turning up the heat on serious courses this year.

What is well known around Sydney as the Arcade Start-Up Screen Print Class (known for it’s use of photographic (real) emulsion stencils, waterbased inks and exceptional strike rate of people with great experiences and also people actually moving onto print enterprises), is soon to be seen as the gateway to bigger and better things. We feel the content of the Start-Up Class is excellent and a great stepping stone to the next level.

Click here for full course description, dates and booking details, or read on for the next level….

The first of these extension courses is the Illustration for Multi-Colour Print 4 Week Intensive with Blair Sayer – this promises to be an epic course.

There will be a corresponding course in Photoshop and Illustrator for Multi-Colour Prints with Nic Bailey, as well as a Yardage Intensive with Steve Woods, and other smaller specialty subjects rotating around these.

The Start-Up is a pre-requisite for the production parts of these courses (taking part in the last 2 weeks), where you will make your prints and produce a commercial style run of that print.

All the way from art concept, nurtured and instructed by industry professionals, walking out he door at the end with a sound knowledge of industry practice, methodology and production.

This is the first of a program of what we want to be recognised as truly brilliant instruction leading to bigger and greater recognition for participants ad greater knowledge …. and a few ciders along the way and some quality ink.

Join us.

A link to Instructor bios – HERE.

Link to more details about the Illustration Intensive  - HERE.

Blair Sayer is a multi Award winning Illustrator and has Illustrated for tens of thousands of T-Shirts through brands like Threadless and Mambo, and works freelance out of Watermark Studios in Surry Hills. The consumate artist, his advice, openness and knowledge will propel any career forward.

- 4 week Intensive course /  8 sessions of 3 hours
- Starts 7th May 2013 (Tuesdays & Wednesdays 7th, 8th, 14th, 15th, 21st, 22nd, 28th, 29th)
- 6pm – 9pm 

Come with concepts, and walk out at the end of this course having had access to information, a creative workspace, expert tuition and resolution of designs, real printing skills and the first 10 shirts of your new collection.  Take your ideas to the next level – for real.

This Illustration Intensive Course is a fantastic look with real hands on experience in the world of real multi-colour illustration, from print right through to production of your prints on T-Shirts. A major step forward for anyone considering their own Illustration driven label or enterprise.

Course Cost $1270 gst inc – no other purchases required in this course – walk out with screens and tees in your design + more.

FOR FULL COURSE DESCRIPTION & DATES, CLICK HERE

This course will only run twice this year – limited numbers apply – Take your knowledge, brand and skill level to a whole new level.

4 week illustration Intensive

Blair Sayer Illustration for Mambo ‘Biofield’

Arcade Screen Printing: Change careers, print some tees

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Opening Night Friday 28th June – Open to the public Saturday and Sunday

Limited Edition prints for sale by many of the Artists.

SPONSORED by PERMASET POSTER INKS – TIGER BEER

Artist Bios to follow ….

An interview with EGY BOY … I personally have a great affection for the whole Soviet block and the people there – I’ve never been to Lithuania but have spent time in Russia, Estonia and Belarus – even Poland and East Germany has great echos of the former Soviet Union – a continent of great intrigue. EGY BOY has this great ‘Cowboy’ attitude which I recognise – he also has this great Andy Warhol style of quietly creating a new brazen boundary for others to chase.

FAS!

1. What’s your background – where did you learn your art ?

I start drawing from 6 years and I am like child happy until now. Today my focus is silkscreen making because I believe to earn first million. In general I am designer with master degree and had 6 years experience in best Lithuania advertising companies I used to work and cry as cretayv head tinker. One sunny day I sad fuck and stopped do this, from art director position I jumped in art, deep in art fashion.

it was hardcore it was so alive. I start making my own artistic language drawings with slogans and the t-shirt was and it is best promo for my art.

We create our design studio http://www.mothereleganza.com/ with first video promo http://www.mothereleganza.com/art/fas in Vilnius, Lithuania.

My drawings are about ironic lifestyle and funny dramas. Mostly my reason is to create a new pop icons.

http://www.egyboy1.com/index.php?/info/

I turn deep in what I always love to do, my marker drawings fashion and conceptual design are based for world reaction. My art platform grows like gradient because I tried and did lots of things in my life: from super 8 films developing by hand, art directing in films, making zines http://www.facebook.com/zlipl, experimental design (bread shoes best design product I create ever) and yes fuck street art, marker drawings is my horse and loving actions I did with our street personage MINCK. (MINCK IS MINCKING). Jou! is always great to do what you really enjoy.

My inspirators is always brother internet and my head, lyftsilte what i feel in my own head box.

My art is always from nowhere and I think now is more about to create a new pop icons I am very serious with long pop me noooooooooow slogan.

MY VOGUE DRAWING is first man on the vogue magazine cover with upside down Paris ! 

I live in art cowboy period… 

2. What drives your art and what was the exhibition at Artpark about to you.

My feeling drivers, inspirations and flaiba came from POP ART AND BAD ART, FROM STREET AND GRAND MASTER ART, FROM NY AND FOLLOWING

BEST NOWDAYS ILLUSTRATORS –  Its ALWAYS LIKE THAT, THAT THE FACT.

other drivers: music, cult illustrators, biographic movies and art history.

I like young brains and lots of books.

Exhibion I made in ART PARK was more about my book BASTA presenta to Australia

(my all life drawings and trash foots with interactive wall and bread shoes, silkscreen posters from Arcade factory I made for sale – was nice feeling to sale art you are

doing all your life)

http://www.mothereleganza.com/shop/product/basta-book

BOOK DETAILS:

“BASTA” – HANDY BOOK FOR A WALK, A COLLECTION OF EGYBOY ARTWORKS,

DRAWINGS,  BLACK MARKER AND PHOTO DIARIES, ITEMS AND FACTS.

and BOMBERS fashion collection from my character drawings

http://www.egyboy1.com/index.php?/t-shirt/bombers/

which I made one years ago (artistic scholarship 1 year best handmade project)

it is best artwork experience I ever did, except bread shoes

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=breadshoes&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=lt&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=WVIaUK6DLoXj4QTCn4DABQ&biw=1439&bih=657&sei=XVIaUIOAFLSL4gTB7oD4DA

and burning now t-shirts!

ART PARK WAS PARADICE , DIRECTORS SUPER COOL PROFESSIONALS FELLAS AND I WAS ART SOUL.

3. We know have more Facebook fans in Lithuania than in Melbourne – you must have an incredible following in Lithuania – where else go you exhibit ?

Yes thats true. I have studio fashion label by name Mother Eleganza and our movement is getting bigger, now we start selling production in Paris in new store called YeYe

(our team create a title and logo)

http://www.facebook.com/yeyestoreparis?ref=ts

We have really a lot of Eleganza fans so I am a member and artist with my crew Dziugas and my twin brother do-re-my : )

We did exhibitions: in Miami, Amsterdam, Vienna, Latvia, Paris, Byron Bay, Vilnius, Japan

http://www.graniph.com/en/news/4/entry-2558.html

4. How’d you hook up with ARTPARK.

I got contact from my girlfriend Photographer RasaJ (thanks), so lucky but long story:)

thanks THE ART PARK Fellas they are super easy going and I am super man

5. What’s the next project ? and Where ?

I think it could be Kanberrra, I got invitation…

I really wish to do something with Monster Children’s one day – I am attacking them, cos I know I am a king of australia : )

Cheers Steve

stay in art

EGYBOY PENCIL BOY

www.egyboy1.com

http://www.facebook.com/egyboypencilboy?ref=hl

http://www.facebook.com/shop.mothereleganza

Very cool – Egy Boy is part of the up coming exhibition ‘Rock, Screen, Paper’

Photo: October Print Market (See next date below for 22nd December Xmas Market – original prints by original artists)

Great markets we did 2 late 2012 as well as a fabric sale day in October …. lots of hand printed product sold by all.

It’s pretty awesome when we walk through different markets these days and see people we’ve taught and see where they’ve taken it too.

Our next stop is the Print Exhibition in June 2013 …. the biggest event so far on our calander …. and that’s saying something considering the year we just had.

Vive La Revolution du Print 

Egidijus Praspaliauskas or as we and quite a few fans know him ‘EgyBoy’ – is pretty full-on with his art.

   

Egys' Main Screen - this produced alot of posters and took the drive to Byron and never returned .... it's an ambient piece somewhere ...

... and card ....

Egy  is all over fashion and installation art and he is a prolific printer at Arcade Print Club when in Australia. Egy is a true lesson in social media – since meeting and working with him we have more friends on our Arcade Facebook page from Lithuania and Northern Europe than from Melbourne (True !).

Artpark for those that don’t really know is run by Paul McNiel of early Mambo fame but also just for his continuos prolific dedication to cutting edge art. ArtPark is a studio in Byron Bay and has an exhibition space sought after by many an Aussie artisan.

Images from the Exhibition – note the interactive element.

Pix x - rasaj.com

Cheers Egy -

A new design from Karl for Invitation Tea Towels – www.invitationteatowels.com.au

Karl has become a great friend of both mine and Arcade – he joins the Hall of Fame with Cam Haughey, Rob Wade, Mike Watt, Carol Jones, Laura Walsh, Ivan Fernandes and plenty more around the joint …

Karl is a Freelance Designer who grew up in Chicago and played guard in High School B-Ball – spent time in the Phillipines and got a Degree in Fine Art while he was out and studied alot of Illustrtaion and such … these days he;s a master of watercolour and his mind is on Australian Poster Design ….

Getting Married – he recently Designed and printed 2  pieces with and through us – check this stuff out – every credit from designing the art to editing the video is his.

PRENUP

THE VOWS

Watch the Video below -

City Life …. city life ….

I don’t know what’s wrong or right …

City life …. I feel it in my bones …..

Bradley emerged from where he had been sleeping, in the back of Arcade Screen Printing.  Although only 28, he looked much older due to a large, scruffy beard and mustache, and thinning hair.  He generally wore his favorite striped shirt and coat wherever he went, no matter the weather; today was no exception.

Bradley’s past was something of a mystery; he was an odd character who rarely spoke to anyone – not so much unfriendly as aloof.  He may have been able to have a more stable lifestyle, but to him nothing matched the appeal and allure of the art galleries and exhibits surrounding him.  He frequented each one without fail, and in fact was becoming quite familiar as a frequent patron of the Newtown, Surry Hills style of alternative arts.  However, due to his unfailing silence, those who saw him could only wonder what his story would reveal.  Despite his aloofness, he gave every appearance of intelligent thought; each art piece he studied with due care, as though his dark eyes saw further mysteries and revelations than most people could.

It was not just art that held his interest.  Despite his aloof nature, Bradley loved music, and he made frequent appearances at parties as well.  Just the other night he had been to a party on Hutchinson Street; the music had him reminiscing fondly about some of the parties at Tortuga he had been to.  He often thought that the music at Tortuga perfectly complemented his own designs – it enriched the experience to have such auditory accompaniment to visual wonders…. in particular the ‘Sample Minds’ …. but really just that wild unbridled spontaeous art form which they called live music …

Bradley was hardly the type to stick to one spot in the city, though; some of his favorite hangouts were in Newton and Enmore.  He thought sometimes that there was no better city than Sydney to fully appreciate art and music … and  … the trains. Bradley could go for hours on the city rail network just listening to people and their stories ….  sure, each city had their own appeal, but there was something about the art galleries and alternative scene in the inner city here in particular that was unmatched in his experience. Bradley always thought that Newtown was the truest alternate scene in Australia …. and here he could mix it up … he didn’t have to choose …. he could be a gay architect that liked sculpture or a garbage collector that liked comics …. he could be whatever he wanted and go to whatever he wanted ….. street artists would hang with fine artists and he liked that.

In his younger days Bradley used to travel a lot before settling down in Marrickville; in fact, the last time he had left the city had been years ago, when he had visited his brother in Newcastle. His obsession with art had led him to explore the city quite a bit before he had left; but it had seemed sparce in comparison to Sydney but he wanted to go back to see if he was right.

Bradley wondered why his thoughts were resting on travelling today.  He normally did not roam far from his circle of locations; he had his favorite locations for art, and was content to not stray from them.  In fact, while he had been thinking he had been absent-mindedly walking over to May’s Lane, one of his favorite locations when it came to street art.  There was no one painting today that he knew about or that would surely be his destination.  Instead he spent his time admiring what had developed since the last time he had been here; even some pieces that were still in progress.  Street art was one of Bradley’s favorite forms of art; it always amazed him how it could be used to evoke certain feelings and emotions and yet remain a different experience for each person.  Further, its placement could be overt or covert; but either way it was a constant reminder of the ubiquitous nature of art and the fact that art did not exist merely in exhibitions, but in everyone’s daily life as well.

But today, even street art could not hold his interest for long.  In a sudden burst of restlessness, he went to the station at St. Peters, wondering where he could hitch a ride to. He hoped this would be the spur to shake off the miasma of ennui he had been feeling. Heading for the city circle he was chasing rumours of a backpacker artist painting streetscapes near Central.

Bradley had just about given up hope on the rumors when he stopped by a corner and saw someone seated there, painting furiously on an easel.  Painting wasn’t Bradley’s favorite form of art; he acknowledged its merits, but often felt that there was only so much you could do with paint and paper.  And seeing some of the results from people with artistic aspirations could be physically painful – not that there was any way they would believe they needed improvement. But as Bradley stepped closer and examined the painting, what he saw left him breathless.  The painter was painting not only the scene on the street, quickly and accurately capturing the various people in motion, but he was also painting in the slightest hints of other figures present and other images of the shop fronts – as if he was not only painting what did exist, but what had existed and what would exist in the future.  Bradley was held spellbound as the painter’s brush moved faster and faster, each movement bringing to life an aspect of the street that brought added depth to the picture.  When he was finally finished, Bradley realized with a start that he had been watching for over an hour.  He knew, without a doubt, that what he had seen today had irrevocably changed his idea of paintings; and even better, he had a new favorite artist.

On contemplation of the day – he headed for the bottleshop to pick up a Cab Sav on his way to the railway tunnel …. the driest spot on a rainy afternoon.

I was first introduced to Bradley by my friend Mike. Mike said he saw him at Semi Permanent today.

This shot was taken on the way to Newcastle …. I’m not sure why.