18 colors of art print insanity- David Choe visits BRLSQ

[wezzburlesque]

As some of you might know, we've been working on a special art print for artist David Choe. I've known David ever since he sent his comic "Slow Jams" to my old magazine Life Sucks Die for review. We've been friends ever since. But it wasn't until Upper Playground had us run two Obama prints for him that we had a chance to print his work. He liked how they turned out so much that when Ben and David got to talking, the idea was hatched to try a print based on one of his more involved paintings. That's when "Exudos From the Land of Play" entered our shop. Bjorn worked on the seps, starting with an intial 13 colors with the plan being to add more screens as needed to really make the piece come to life.
Dave came to town yesterday, we had dinner, then today got to work. When he approved the final screen, they finished at 18 colors. Right now, he's in the process of adding unique bits to each one so none will be the same.

Here we are at the beginning of yesterday-

[dennyschmickle]

dayumn

[wezzburlesque]

and I'm uploading some from today right now...
in the meantime, here's some from the beginning-

First screen, a light yellow-


Second color whizzing by-


Don't know which color but here's one exposing-


Again, not sure how many in this flick-

[DWITT]

I went to high school with a guy named Dave Choe who was always in my art classes (he being a senior and I was a freshman). I've always wondered if it was the same guy.

[wezzburlesque]

there was a tattoo dude from here that has the same name. This guy's from LA and lives in New York now.

[wezzburlesque]

Here's a nice one of Ben holding one, prolly 10 colors in-

[Iron Canvas Studios]

damn dudes - looking great!

[dennyschmickle]

nice x-posure unit

[wezzburlesque]

Here we are at the beginning of today-


Last layer of film-




Everyone checks out the first few test prints-

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The final print, although black got lightened after this-


Dave messes with one of the make-readies-


Ben making sure everything's perfect-




More inspection-


Next up, some shots of Dave customizing the prints.