2013 Update : "Stag & Serpent"

Hi...time for an (overdue) update

"Scrawled Design" is now officially finished.

This will be my final post on this blog.

However...

Work is continuing, though all new projects will now be under the "Stag & Serpent" banner.

Whilst I am still accepting suitable work commissions, from 2013 onwards I am refocusing efforts towards print making with an emphasis on personal work related to themes related to myth, folklore and ritual.

I'm very busy with numerous illustration projects over the coming months, as well as new, original print work. This will all be under the "Stag & Serpent" banner - there will be a related site and blog in time. It could well be much later in the year this appears, but rest assured I'm keeping busy!

Some important things!

* Please note that I no longer have any prints or posters of past work for sale! 
* There will be new print work forthcoming, and an online store for purchase of work. I have no further details at present but it is in the works!

In the meantime please use the following for updates and keeping track of my activities :

Facebook page devoted to new work and printmaking (eventually!)
facebook.com/stagandserpent

Instagram : 
instagram.com/glynsmyth


Thanks a lot for your support (and for reading!)

Glyn Smyth
info@stagandserpent.com

ASH BORER / PROFOUND LORE - tour shirt 2012

Front illustration for the Ash Borer shirt available on their upcoming tour.

(band logo as print on reverse)

Nephilim abandoned and left within the barren garden. 

The scapegoat. Gnostic hell. 

www.profoundlorerecords.com

ash-borer.blogspot.com

Last orders...

Preparing last ever bunch of print orders for Scrawled Design...sniff! (The store will be closed for good in a matter of minutes!)

Thank you all for the support and custom over the last 7 years. 
Something new is in the works. I'm keeping very busy with some band work, after which I'll be focusing on new projects, a proper new site and a new studio name. The seeds are being sown now...hopefully we'll start seeing growth early in 2013!

I'll be making a few final posts here before then

cheers! xx
G

THE TALLEST FOREST - Letterpress art print

"The Tallest Forest" is an illustration originally conceived and incorporated as part of the gatefold artwork for the album 'V' by the band Unearthly Trance.

Due to repeated requests for an art print version of this piece I present this exclusive 1 colour letterpress edition - one time printing only!

Strictly limited edition of 38, signed and numbered.
17.3 x 8.6", black ink on on 325gsm Cairn Board Vanilla stock.

Letterpress printing by The Print Project

 

theprintproject.co.uk

scrawled.bigcartel.com/product/the-tallest-forest-letterpress-art-print

Clone - Play Slow, Die Fast Volume IV

Final, 2x12" instalment of the Clone compilations featuring modern bands interpretations of old metal, hardcore and punk classics. Click on links for posts on previous editions...


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Cleaned up sketch before inking

Line-up for Volume IV:

*Haggatha – No fair (Wipers) 1981

*Frogskin - Bleeding Peptic Ulcer (Regurgitate) 1994

*B.son – Heute spass morgen Tod (Vorkriegsjugend) 1983

*Laudanum – The life machine (Tubeways Army) 1978

*Modorra – You suffer (Napalm Death) 1987

*Fattura della morte - Sweet young thing ain't sweet no more  (Mudhoney) 1988

*Ghost of Wem – Impact (Chain of Strength) 1990

*Enth – Down my throat (Disrupt) 1992

*Unearthly Trance – In my head (Black Flag) 1985

*Electrozombies – Countess Bathory (Venom) 1982

*Funeral Moth – Suffocation (Transgressor) 1992

Available soon from Blind Date Records

TOMBS + SHIRTS & DESTROY

tombsbklyn.bandcamp.com

www.shirtsanddestroy.com

HEAVY DAYS IN DOOMTOWN : 3-6th May, Copenhagen 2012

Poster for the first 2 days of the upcoming HDID fest. This will be available at the festival as a limited edition screenprint, alongside other work from David V D'Andrea (Portland/USA) and The 13th Sign Collective (Berlin/Germany).

The opening night (Thursday 3rd) will be at the alternative venue Stengade where we'll also be showing a group exhibition of original artworks and prints - hope to see some of you there!

"Heavy Days In Doomtown -a DIY celebration of all things slow and heavy will be a 4 day event at 3 different venues in Copenhagen:
-a warmup show at the alternative venue Stengade, Stengade 18
-2 days of music, art, events and madness at the DIY activist driven social centre Ungdomshuset, Dortheavej 61
- a cooldown day in Copenhagens freetown Christiania with moviescreenings, accoustic outdoor shows and the final concert at Christianias finest rockclub Loppen.

The festival is organized by the association "Undergrundsmusikens Fremme" (translated: Undergroundmusic promotion) based in Copenhagen, Denmark. The association has for the past two years been organizing the successful DIY Death Metal Festival "Kill-Town Death Fest" (www.killtowndeathfest.dk) and has now spread its ventures to the doomspectre.

The whole event is organized by the DIY principles, which means that neither the organizers, the bands or the people who work at the fest are making any profit, and our main purpose besides having an amazing fest full of heavy music, is to promote the DIY principles to the genres who doesn’t usually organize this way.

Besides music, were inviting a bunch of great artists to come and make installations, visuals and more before and during the festival to make the expeirence of the fest visual as well as musical.

We hope to see all of you in Copenhagen in May for Europes heaviest underground event of 2012!

All the best//
Heavy Days In Doomtown Crew"

www.heavydaysindoomtown.com