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    Default Scenic Route: New Screen Prints by Kevin Mercer, Friday Nov 5

    Hey folks, I'm having a one dude show at Masthead in Philly on November 5.
    It will be almost all art prints, and most of them are brand new. I have a lot of printing to do before then, so I'll be posting some process pics here leading up to the show.

    First, some details:
    Scenic Route: New Screen Prints by Kevin Mercer
    Reception: Friday, November 5 6-10pm
    Masthead Print Studio
    340 Brown St.
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    Philadelphia PA 19123
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    I'll be setting up a special site for sales during and after the show. More on that soon.

    Here are some images:





    Thanks for checking it out, I hope to see one or three of you there.

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    I finished printing the last piece for the show last night. Here's some process info.

    I made this print in the spring then decided that I wanted to rework it and develop the idea.



    I started with a pencil sketch:



    Scanning the sketch and fooling around in Photoshop wasn't working, so redrew the whole thing in Illustrator. That made it way easier to edit the shapes, but now I had this super sharp vector design that still needed something.

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    NICE! Always love your stuff Kevin!

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    I've been fascinated by this huge sign near my house for years.



    I tried once or twice making an art print of just the sign, but it wasn't working. So I figured I'd draw up a horse and put it on top of the design. Like so:



    So here we are, finished vector design. Still too sharp for my taste, but overall looking pretty cool:


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    Apropos to the name of this show, I decided that the only way to soften this design properly was to redraw the whole thing by hand. So I printed it out and went to town on the light table. Smokey approves:



    That led to about three hours of piecing the design back together in photoshop, filling in some blanks, and then hand trapping it.

    One of the ways I trap stuff like this by hand is isolate each color on a layer in print order. Then I select the layer, expand the selection by 6 or 8 pixels, and draw in the traps where the layer above overlaps. It was easy with this one since the shapes were so simple.

    I know, long way around, but the results are worth it.

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    and, the printing, starting with color 2.



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    and the final color:


    "The Road Home", 7 color, 18x24, edition of 35

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    I will not be there but it looks awesome.
    "people get desperate enough they will worship a fucking shoe."

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    very cool. love all of it.

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    very nice

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    Hey folks, I just wanted to mention that there is a closing reception for my show at Masthead, tomorrow night from 6-9pm. Again, thanks for those who have already come out, and if you're in the area I'd love to see you there tomorrow.

    Scenic Route: New screen prints by Kevin Mercer
    Closing Reception: Saturday, November 20 6-9pm

    Masthead Print Studio
    340 Brown St.
    Second Floor
    Philadelphia PA 19123

    The gallery is kind of tough to locate, look for a sandwich board outside the door near the corner of 4th and Brown, across the street from Honey's Sit n Eat.

    Thanks!

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