Tom Whalen - Limited Screenprint
8 color screenprint on Cougar natural 100lb cover
36 x 24 inches
numbered, limited edition of 150
printed by Seizure Palace in Portland, OR
Screenprinting (also called silkscreen printing) is a technique where ink is pushed through a fine mesh screen onto a surface, with a stencil blocking ink from areas that shouldn't be printed. Each color requires its own separate screen and pass, so multi-color designs involve layering the print color by color.
It's known for producing bold, opaque, vibrant colors with a slightly textured, tactile feel. Ink sits on top of the surface rather than absorbing into it the way offset litho does. This makes it popular for pop-culture and limited-edition art prints and posters, since the thick ink layers give strong visual impact
Please allow up to 8 weeks for delivery. Prints will typically ship rolled in protective tubes, though some may ship flat between sheets of sturdy cardboard depending on size, medium, and quantity purchased.
Historiart's "Defy the Gods" is an officially licensed print series created with Universal Pictures, inspired by Christopher Nolan's theatrical adaptation of The Odyssey. The collection debuts publicly in Los Angeles on July 13, then travels to the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation in Athens (July 17–August 2), with prints also exhibited at BFI in London and the Melbourne Museum IMAX.
countless sunday afternoons were spent sitting next to that squeaky old spinner rack of comics in my grandmother's candy store. i loved the stories, but it was the art that stuck with me. armed with well-worn issues of character guides like "who's who in the dc universe"and "the official handbook of the marvel universe", it was sometime around sixth grade when i started to take drawing seriously. multiple trapper keepers full of my own character designs would follow. an 11"x17" drawing pad and a pencil were staples of my high school existence. a few thousand drawings (give or take) later, my own style started to emerge.
in 1992, i took my love of mcfarlane, ditko, and kirby to kutztown university where i quickly added bass, glaser, and tschichold to a growing list of influences. concentrating in both graphic design and illustration, i found myself inspired by typography and i committed to making it an integral part of my work.
now, nearly 20 years later, i relish the opportunity to mesh my passion for design and love of illustration for clients like disney, marvel, the beatles and target.
i feel like a kid in a candy store.
