HERE IS THE SECOND SHIRT IN THE FALL/WINTER 2009 SERIES.

IN BLACK & ORANGE IT’S JUST IN TIME FOR OCTOBER AND PRESEASON FLYERS ACTION.

INTRODUCING

THE NEWEST BROAD STREET BOOTLEG™ HYBRID

“PHLYERS“

THIS SHIRT IS:

$20.00

AND IS AVAILABLE UNDER THE NEW PAGE FALL 2009.

This shirt is a 2 color (black & orange) screen print on a light gray T-shirt.

E-mail me at seaarezea2000@yahoo.com for ordering information.

Starting with this design and continuing with more in the future I am going to start “The Making Of” series. A series of photographs to document the making of a new shirt or design. I am only going to document the making of a shirt if it is a true hands on/hand made shirt consisting of hand cut stencils.

Here is:

THE MAKING

OF

“PHLYERS“

1) I began with a simple wax paper stencil. I cut out the shape below and used the piece this was cut from as the stencil.

2) I taped the wax paper to the underside of the screen.

3) Applied the orange ink to the front side of the screen.

4) “Flooded” the screen to obtain a smooth even coat of ink.

5) Pulled the ink through the stencil twice. Once with the screen flooded, once without.

6) Lift the screen to reveal the first color print.

7) Now to lay out the stencil for the second color. I printed an outline of the design out on a transparency so I could have the widest range of options when working with it. The advantages of having the design on a transparency is that if the design need to be traced or reversed etc. it can be done very easily.

8) I next needed to cut out the center half of the baseball that was floating and not attached to anything. I needed to cut it out on a sticker so that it would adhere to the screen and I had to cut it out backwards because it is being placed on the back side of the screen. During a sunny day my window makes for an excellent light table. (I have no idea why that happy face is up there. It is suppose to be an number eight but eights keeps showing up as that. Weird)

9) Next I needed to cut out the rest of the design and I choose to use “Clear Transparent Con-Tact” paper. After using this for many different shirt designs I found that it is very reliable and the plastic like texture is very durable. Again, I had to cut this design out backward because it is going on the back side of the screen.

10) I then used 2 inch masking tape to seal up the rest of the screen and placed the half of a baseball sticker on the screen in it’s right place.

11) The stencil is cut out, stuck on the screen. The holes are sealed and the screen looks good and I’m ready to print color number two.

12) I apply the black ink and once again flood the screen with an smooth even coat. Lookin’ good!

13) I pull the ink through the screen twice. Once with the screen flooded and once without.

14) Lift the screen to reveal what all the hard work was for. Couldn’t have come out better. Great Success! And all with hand cut stencils. Amazing! No high wattage expensive exposure units and NO CHEMICALS!! So boys and girls, hopefully with this know-how you will feel confident enough to attempt screen printing at home. Enjoy!

15) Repeat steps #1-#14.

Then the real fun part. Cleaning all of the ink off in my bathtub. Awesome!

BUFFALO PLAID

SECOND EDITION

New for fall this second edition of the buffalo plaid print that we all know and love.  This shirt is essentially the same as the other buffalo plaid shirt with only one difference.  That being the red and white are reversed.  This is a 2 color screen print (black & white) on a red shirt.  This is the first shirt of the fall series and quantity is very limited.  This shirt is available in SMALL, MEDIUM, & LARGE.  Get them while you can and keep an eye out for the next edition in the fall series coming soon.  Keep in mind while ordering that these shirts are all hand printed one at a time and registered by eye.  No two are exactly the same and offsetting occurs on all of them.  E-mail me at seaarezea2000@yahoo.com for ordering information.

This Shirt is $20.00.

GOLD ACRYLIC on AMERICAN APPAREL

This one-of-a-kind limited edition American Apparel hoodie was made for Brieann Tracey.  It didn’t come out exactly as planned but instead was sort of an experimental learning process.  I was given the ink to use with this one and it was ink that I have never used before.  It was actually acrylic paint not meant for screen printing.  I did a test print on a black t-shirt first and that didn’t come out as planned either but I figured what the hell.  There’s only one way that I’m going to know if this is gonna work or not, so I placed the sweatshirt on my printing table, lowered the screen, slopped on a bunch of “paint” (not ink) and pulled the squeegee down the screen 3 or 4 times.  The moment of truth.  As I lifted the screen I noticed plenty of unwanted streaks across the print.  “SHIT!” I thought to myself.  It didn’t work.  But why?  Not sure.  Was it because I’m not used to or equipped to print sweatshirts? Was it that the paint I was given was not meant to be forced through a tiny mesh screen? Was it both of these factors?  Anyway I was pretty bummed out because I obviously wanted to come off with a beautiful acrylic gold print on a really nice sweatshirt, but that weren’t the case.  I knew this particular sweatshirt cost upwards of 30 bones and I knew Brieann would be less than happy to receive her sweatshirt back with such a low level of craftsmanship.  I slept on it.  (not the sweatshirt)  I woke up yesterday morning with the shitty printed sweatshirt fresh on my mind.  I had to do something.  “Hand paint it”  was the first thought that came to mind.  It can’t get any worse, right?  Without any delay and brush in hand I went at it.  The finished product (pictured above) came out much better that I thought it would.  Although it doesn’t appear to be screen printed (because you can see brush strokes on it) it still came out much better that I anticipated.  The true test will be today when Brieann see’s it.  So this just may be a new realm of Broad Street Bootlegs™ that has never been entered before.  The realm of hand painted apparel.  Who knows. We’ll just have to wait and see.

SF SUCKS

I went to the Phils/Giants game last night and about 2 hours before the game I came up with this design and had to whip it out fast enough to wear it to the ballpark.  Although the Phillies got shut out 4-0 with only 5 hits I still had a good time.  I printed this design on whatever gray shirts I had sitting around and it happened to be 2-SMALL 2-MEDIUM and 2-XTRA LARGE.  So, if you would like one of these very limited “SF SUCKS” don’t wait because they will not be around for long.  This shirt is a 2 color screen print made with a hand cut contact paper stencil. That’s right. These letters were hand cut by myself and stuck to the back of the screen before being printed.  They were registered by eye so every single shirt is slightly different and offsetting occurs on all of them.  As of now there are only 5 left, so get them while you can.  The Giants may be our first opponent in the post season boys and girls so get yourself ready with this very limited, one of a kind Broad Street Bootlegs™ original.  Hand made in Philadelphia. Holla at cha boi.

Thanks, Christian.