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red alert all strange friends: new vibe pack, new supply drop, new style, is en route to your feed and potentially your life (if you want) right now. its a topic we havent covered in a minute. had this one cooking in the lab for a while now.

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had the idea to periodically release some smaller fine art style prints from the studio in small packs with some stickers ive been printing along the way. did the first one sometime last year, made 40, they sold out, it was a good time. time for chapter 2

now its time for the [second] vibe pack. "second inkjection" - american cryptids print with the suite of theo-aesthetica stickers. some new. some classic. let me show you all about it in this thread. u can look for fun even if u dont want to pick it up

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so, first up, the print. i wanted to make an image with some of my favorite, and some of the most essential, some rare, some well known, american cryptids. ive been working on getting this just right for a while now. i think i first started this last year in colorado. Image
so i have this really awesome printer here where the ink is almost more like paint. ill post a video of the print in a second. when ive done stuff like this, ive usually tried to base the feel and flavor of the image on a traditional printmaking technique, so it carries that vibe
last time i tried to land in kind of an etching or northern euro woodcut space. this time, i based the feel and flavor of this print on some japanese woodblock prints, specifically this image of white foxes carrying ceremonial flames at night by hiroshige, one of my favorites. ImageImage
not that they look the same, obviously, but i can "go for" any flavor and feel i want so, i have found its useful to base the general timbre off something traditional so, thats what i used. the way the woodblock print utilizes fades and dark tones was perfect for this.
you can see how the print actually looks here and get a feel for the size. its printed on watercolor paper so it has a nice texture, its kind of thick, not to sound pretentious but i would call this a more fine art style print. im really happy with how it turned out.
theres a few older euro altarpieces and things like that from northern europe that have decorative writing around the outside, and its done so that when youre looking at the image the writing functions as a "pure border", but u can read it. the border says what cryptids are in it Image
we got:

- mothman
- dogman
- loveland frog man
- flatwoods monster
- bigfoot
- jersey devil
- pope lick monster
- skunk ape
- wampus cat
- various aquatic entities

and more. i tried to get the best selection possible ImageImageImageImage
so yeah. could go on about that but really tried to capture a certain vibe and feel here. if ur on patreon you saw me working on this on and off for a while, started sometime last year, even collected visual descriptions and notes of things that should be reflected. good times. Image
anyway, moving on, the stickers. some people have seen some of these designs before, got some classics around, this first one is new though. theyre all vinyl stickers. ImageImageImageImage
theyre all around three inches, which i have found is the largest i can print them without the effect being "woah, thats really large, what am i going to do with that". with pencil you can see how large: ImageImageImage
also includes the holographic st odilo of cluny sticker, which you can see in the tweet below and in different lighting in the tweet above that. shiny. hes the patron saint of souls in purgatory

ive found its almost impossible to get these printed without some slight imperfections like a line or a bump or something so, just saying, but thats kind of the cool part of working with actual materials instead of pixels, imo. they look cool irl.

thats it. the set is $40 flat. that includes shipping unless ur in another country. comes in a small hard envelope to your house. i made 40, if it sells out super quickly ill make some more. thats the tale. thanks for looking at my stuff and hanging out on the internet with me
oh yeah i forgot the best part, i know this is going to push it over the edge for you, theyre signed on the back. hello big museum department. hello art world. hello sothebys ten million dollar opening bids. ten trillion dollar bids minimum by end of year (not financial advice) Image

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