Neurosis Album Fine Art Prints – Fires Within Fires.

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Fires Within Fires is the eleventh studio album by Neurosis, a band I have been following since I was a teenager, that’s 25 years!!!! The album was released on September 23, 2016, via the band’s own record label, Neurot Recordings. I am very grateful to have teamed up with their record label Neurot and my good friends at Deathwish to make available for the first time, museum quality prints of the art I created for this album.

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Making art for them has been a dream of mine and always seemed like it would be out of my league. So when I started making t-shirt art for the band and working with them on solo album projects I was honored and humbled to say the least.
When the opportunity arose to make an album cover for them,  I jumped at the chance and poured every bit of creative energy into the project, creating not just a cover but a full album package and layout for the gatefold LP, even down to hand painting the bands logo, album titles and writing the lyrics page with recording info.

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The first sketch that I created for the album that struck a chord with the band and led to ideas for the finished cover and layout.

I wanted this piece of work to be a landmark achievement for my creative outlet that I like to call painting but at times feel is just illustration. It was a hard project to get a visual grasp of as I didn’t want to embed my artistic personality into their music and also wanted to represent their monumental legacy and iconic visual identity without repeating previous art they have used.

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The Sumi ink sketch that became the main element of the final painted back cover.

Carrying themes from their lyrics and weighted music, this was the final outcome……

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Like Neurosis’ previous albums, Fires Within Fires combines “elements from the post-metal genre they co-created with elements of industrial, doom, punk and folk”.

You can listen to the album hear and discover more about the band here.

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The prints are available here via Deathwish.com

There are two sizes available
Medium: 12.5″ W X 24″ H
Large: 18.5″ W X 36″ H
Printed on: Fine Line, Coarse Watercolor, 315 GSM
Museum Quality Giclée Prints.
Poster tube included with each order. Ships within 7-10 business days.

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https://deathwishinc.com/collections/thomas-hooper/products/thomas-hooper-fires-within-fires-giclee-print

Thank you the all the members of the band for trusting me with this project and to Jacob Bannon for all his help making the art available as prints.

Process Fragments

I have just uploaded a collection of paintings and a series of one off screen printed mixed media pieces to the Paintings for Sale section.

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The Process Fragment pieces I am really happy with how they came out, an accidental series created through a making stencils and tools for a screen print project, from earlier in the year whilst collaborating with Jacob Bannon

Screen print on lazer cut stencil, enamel, acrylic and ink 22.5×16”

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Mounted onto hand finished 400lbs arches cold press. Repurposed process tools from a live print collaboration with @jbannon  @fullbleedexhibition @brlsq screen print lovingly applied onto to precarious surface by @benbrlsq & @gemma_monostereo #thomashooperart #mixedmedia #mixedmediaart #screenprint #thomashooper #thomashoopertattooing

https://meditationsinatrament.com/paintings-for-sale/

New Hoodies, Shirts and Bandanas.

Following up from last month, I have refined my webstore and made it run a bit smoother. Thank you to everyone who picked up something from the clear out I had, I really appreciate it!

I took a lot of time off from tattooing over the last two months due to an accident and spent a lot of time at home, so I used the time well and did a lot of drawing!

Here are a couple of time lapses I made whilst drawing two of my new T-shirt designs.

So  I’ve been working on these new designs for the last two months and they are finally ready. I’ve switched everything over to selling and fulfilling them all myself, so its now all packed and shipped by me. Thank you for the support, Thomas.

https://thomas-hooper.myshopify.com

 

 

The Traveler

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The Traveler by Thomas Hooper

Raking Light Projects is proud to announce the publication of TheTraveler by Thomas Hooper. The Traveler is a varied edition of 70 hand-embellished letterpress prints printed by Master Printer Paul Mullowney. The Traveler will be available for viewing and purchase at the Raking Light Projects hand-embellished print exhibit at the London Tattoo Convention on September 23 – 24 – 25.

The Traveler began with an intricate hand-drawn illustration by Thomas Hooper. To complement the intricate key imagery, Thomas utilized ink, watered-down gouache and bleach to transform Arches Watercolor paper into 70 uniquely embellished backgrounds measuring 20” (h) x 13” (w).

Faced with the challenge of printing a detailed image onto hand-finished paper with different colors and textures, Paul Mullowney printed the key image in white and finished the edition by hand-dusting traditional Japanese GoFun pigment onto the fresh white ink to add opacity and shimmer in the manner of a technique employed on Ukiyo- e prints of the 19th century.

The first 20 The Traveler multiples will be available exclusively at the London Tattoo Convention as part of the Raking Light Projects hand-embellished print exhibit taking place in the Upper Gallery space.

The remaining edition will be featured in exhibitions presented by Raking Light Projects in Chicago and San Francisco with a portion of the edition reserved for release online.

For additional information on The Traveler, please contact andrew@rakinglightprojects.com.

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