Old School Printing with Eric Haze
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Before i went to doing my artwork full time, i use to be a screenprinter. In Baltimore, i was a textile screenprinter. I printed for everybody from Barnes and Noble, to Johns Hopkins University. IT was a good gig, but not very challenging creatively.

When i moved to California, i started doing flat work. Printing posters for various artists. I realized very quickly that i sucked at printing. Even though i had my own business for 8 years screenprinting, i was never very good at it. This was even more true for flat printing. The very last job i had printing posters was for Eric Haze. When Haze came to me I had decided to stop printing the week before. But because it was Haze, i decided it was too good to pass up. I went ahead and printed the posters, and fucked up nearly every single one of them. It was either a smudge here, a crease in the paper here, or it wasnt registered correctly. Needless to say, it was the last poster i ever printed. I was a bit worried about Haze being pissed off that i fucked up his prints, but he was cool as shit. From that printing, we became friends and he has helped key me into how things work. That was about 3 and a half years ago now

I figured i would post some of the jpgs from the printing. They are cool to look at now, but if you caught me during the printing, i would swear that the screenprinting gods hated me.

check me rocking the grizzly adams beard steez.