Desert Rose Dragon screenprints for sale

Now that the Pinchflat Poster show is officially over for 2014, we'll be selling our remaining "Desert Rose Dragon" prints in our Etsy shop. Some stats on 2014 Pinchflat: The show was on display for 121 days at 5 different locations and sold 275 total posters! Yeah!

"Desert Rose Dragon" is a 12" x 24", 3-color silkscreen print on black French paper. We had Shout Out Loud Prints silkscreen them for us.

Pinchflat Poster show 2014, Columbus Ohio

The opening of the 2014 Pinchflat Poster Show in Columbus, Ohio was a big hit!! 130 posters were sold during the opening day! Posters will be on sale at Paradise Garage for the rest of May, then they'll be at Roll: Bicycles in June, Baer Wheels in July, and Cafe Brioso in August, all in Columbus, Ohio.

Jason & I did the Q&A during the preview show and spoke about our poster "Desert Rose Dragon." We were nervous as expected. It's always interesting hearing stories from other artists. I told my semi-embarrasing childhood story of falling off my bike into a stinky ditch, which had nothing on another artists's story of wrecking his bike & having his front teeth knocked out (he had braces on his teeth, so the whole front row of teeth was suspended by his braces). And yet he continued to be a cyclist! WOW.

My photos didn't come out great, but Wild Goose has plenty of shots from the opening day. We're already looking forward to next year :)

I think this was our favorite poster there this year!

We loved this 80's style poster too...great colors!

Great illustration! 

We're suckers for 80's action flicks!

This poster was perforated so you could have 12 mini posters.

Here's our print "Desert Rose Dragon"

Our Desert Rose Dragon print will be in the Pinchflat Bike Poster Show in Columbus!

Our second print, "Desert Rose Dragon" will be at the 2014 Columbus Pinchflat show in May. Pinchflat now spans four months and will have posters on display at Paradise Garage, Roll: Bicycles, Baer Wheels, and Cafe Brioso in Columbus, Ohio. The opening party is at Wild Goose Creative on May 3, 2014.  Pinchflat is an original bike poster show in Columbus that chooses 30 artists who create 30 prints each that sell for $30 a pop. We're excited that we made it into the show again this year.

There's also a preview party at Wild Goose Creative on May 2, 2014 from 5-7 so you can get an early look & purchase posters. There will be an artist Q&A around 5:30 which Jason & I were asked to speak at along with a few other artists. We're nervous because we stink in front of people. Hopefully we won't embarrass ourselves too much :)

"Desert Rose Dragon" is a 12" x 24", 3-color silkscreen print on French paper. This year we had Shout Out Loud Prints silkscreen them for us. We're really happy with how much of the detail was retained on the printed piece. Thanks for the awesome print job Pat!!

The bicycle in the print was my first bike as a kid, a Huffy Desert Rose with a super cool and comfy banana seat. My sister and I got the same bike that year for Christmas. My parents had this weird notion that if we got the same exact toys that we wouldn't fight over who got the coolest doll, game, or bike. That plan ultimately backfired on them when one of the identical items would break & we fought over which one of us it belonged to :D To this day I still put my name on everything I own :)

I had to wait until Spring to ride my pretty pink Desert Rose bike, which felt like an excruciatingly long time since I was a kid. I had never ridden a bike before, so I thought my parents would give me more of a lessen than they did. They pretty much said "Get on and peddle." That seemed simple enough. I managed to spin the wheels once before I fell off into the ditch in front of our house. That wouldn't have been so bad except for the fact that we lived in the country where everyone had septic tanks and smelly ditches that were quickly dug by backhoes. So I had to crawl out of a 3 foot deep ditch, covered in black gunk. My parents found this surprisingly hilarious, so I stormed off and said I was never getting on my bike again. After soaking in our retro pink bathtub with my clothes on, I put on a clean pair of pants and went back out to give it another go. So "never again" lasted about 10 minutes! I hopped on and rode all the way down the street without falling off (my parents skimped on training wheels). I think I was determined to not have my parents snicker at me again. 

I recently recounted that story to my dad who not surprisingly didn't remember it at all. Maybe he would've remembered it if he fell into a ditch and had someone laugh at him?

So why the dragon? We thought it would be neat to have a dragon doing a BMX style bike trick. I didn't think about how long it would take to draw the scales on the dragon. It was exhausting. And 42 hours later, our second print was completed :)

You can buy our Desert Rose Dragon print in our Etsy shop.

"Desert Rose Dragon" silkscreen print

Alison's initial sketch... I got tired of sketching the dragon's scales too!

Jason did a sketch too. I ended up combining elements from each sketch for the final print.
I create the art digitally in Illustrator using a 10-year old mouse instead of a tablet
('cause I'm old skool and stoopid).