[Schrödinger's Chat]

Those heads look great Leo, good luck with the event, it sounds like it's going to be awesome.

[Leo Boyd]

Aug 27, 2016 7:32:11 GMT 1 Schrödinger's Chat said:

Those heads look great Leo, good luck with the event, it sounds like it's going to be awesome.

Cheers Schrodinger
Pretty happy with how the teleheads have turn out! Only 350 more to print today
Leo

[Leo Boyd]

Completely different day down the studio today messing around with layered paint and printing onto wet layers and generally making a mess. Manage to get one very nice tech-head print/painting done... I'll upload it tomorrow but as for now here is the latest of this print gone live on my store
Cheers
Leo
leoboydprints.bigcartel.com/product/safe-mode-3

[Leo Boyd]

Right... one last post before the frantic festival car packing begins
think this one is called Boot Sequence?
cheers
Leo

[Leo Boyd]

So that was a fairly mental weekend @ the Electric Picnic
One thing that I learnt was that is it pretty difficult to screen print in a tiny space with a box on your head!
All in all bloody good fun though
more pictures to follow

[Leo Boyd]

So passport found, checked in online, plane to berlin in about 3 hours
good times
here is the triptych that I am working on for ulster bank
woooha
laters
Leo

[Leo Boyd]

I am proud to have been invited to be part of Hit the North, Belfast’s best and only street art festival.
As well as a ton of street art there is a conference in the Black Box that runs from Thursday the 15th to Friday the 16th. The whole thing is run by Seedhead arts and ends with Belfast Culture Night so is probably going to be totally nuts!
There is much more info about it here www.blackboxbelfast.com/event/hit-the-north/
I am going to be doing a screen printed wall on Thursday and Friday too on Garfield Street so if you are wandering the streets of Belfast come down and have a look.
To give you an idea of what I am going to be working on I’ll post a picture below and you can see more here leoboydprints.bigcartel.com
Cheers
Leo

[Leo Boyd]

I will try my best to get some photos of the event and stick them up here... but as I am going to be painting like a madman thatll be pretty hard... if anyone does come down and takes photos it would be great if they could stick them up here
cheers again
Leo

[Leo Boyd]

Morning all!
So back from Berlin, land of brilliant public transport, street art and cheap good beer... radiohead were brilliant and the sun shone every day... now back to the real world.
This week is going to be fairly mental. I am installing an exhibition in Dublin on thursday... then back up to Belfast to make a mural for Hit the North, Belfast's only street art festival and then back down to dublin for the exhibition opening only to have to get back to Belfast for some live screen printing on the weekend.
I will stick some links up to Hit the North and the Dublin exhibition below... in the mean time here is a pic from the Electric Picnic
Leo

[Leo Boyd]

Right... this is a link for the New Voices of Ireland exhibition
www.facebook.com/events/1119386531487547/?active_tab=highlights
and erm errr Hit the North is erm
here?
www.blackboxbelfast.com/event/hit-the-north/

[dbnetherleigh]

Hey Leo - I'll be there for sure. This is always a great event - tied into Culture Night on the Friday, so plenty of free entertainment - Belfast will be buzzing (think that might have been the strap line from a really cheesy marketing promotion in the 90's - sorry!)If anyone in in NI on Thursday/Friday I can thoroughly recommend getting yourself down to this - it's best night of the year for Belfast. By the way loads of the previous years street art is still up and worth a look - some really huge pieces, especially around Hill Street (massive Conor Harrington), North Street (Inkie etc) and the maze of streets behind St Anne's Cathedral and the Central Library - all within a 5 minute walk of each other.....

[Leo Boyd]

Sept 14, 2016 8:57:21 GMT 1 dbnetherleigh said:

Hey Leo - I'll be there for sure. This is always a great event - tied into Culture Night on the Friday, so plenty of free entertainment - Belfast will be buzzing (think that might have been the strap line from a really cheesy marketing promotion in the 90's - sorry!)If anyone in in NI on Thursday/Friday I can thoroughly recommend getting yourself down to this - it's best night of the year for Belfast. By the way loads of the previous years street art is still up and worth a look - some really huge pieces, especially around Hill Street (massive Conor Harrington), North Street (Inkie etc) and the maze of streets behind St Anne's Cathedral and the Central Library - all within a 5 minute walk of each other.....

I agree with all of this! Culture Night is pretty much the best night that Belfast has to offer
Not sure if I am going to be in Belfast as yet for culture night... got to make the Dublin or Belfast decision but if you are on Garfield street come and say hello dbnetherleigh
Leo

[dbnetherleigh]

Hey Leo - will do. We've met before - I bought one of your APs earlier this year. Looking forward to seeing your work on a big scale - it's a nice image. Will give you a shout if you end up in Belfast for the night - crazy!

[Leo Boyd]

vertical screen printing is a-go-go

[Leo Boyd]

here is a link to some of the works in progress for Hit the North/Belfast culture night
I will stick some of my pictures up later
Leo

www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100011547247045&fref=nf

[dbnetherleigh]

What a great night and some brilliant artwork. Leo - yours looked brilliant - called past a couple of times but you must have got it up in super quick time because it was finished - no doubt having a few celebratory beers! Actually went back down this morning to get a few snaps - some eejit had lent the wire fencing against yours so couldn't get a snap - but will be back down next week. Some of the pieces were huge - massive Dan Kitchener @ St Anne's Square, and a really nice piece beside the Conor Harrington on the Black Box - a bearded man in a kind of impressionist style, but not sure who the artist was! Loads of decent music, food and wrestling (!) too. As we say in NI - good craic!

[Leo Boyd]

cheers man. It was really good fun making it... worked pretty late on thursday and then got stuck in early on friday so had it done by about 4... good timing as there were people and paint everywhere
I didnt really mean for my piece to be so dark! hahaha... but yeah culture night itself was great fun. It is a shame it doesnt happen more often.
Ill stick a couple of pictures up here and there is a link to some more here
www.facebook.com/The-Belfast-that-Time-Forgot-318094775064301/

[Leo Boyd]

Vertically screen printed mural for Hit the North and Belfast Culture Night
there are more erm... here
www.facebook.com/The-Belfast-that-Time-Forgot-318094775064301/

[Leo Boyd]

I have been messing about with the CSS on my shop... learning as I mess stuff up... going to try and do some stuff later with the messy slide show thing but for now there is this new piece that I have just uploaded
cheers
Leo
leoboydprints.bigcartel.com/product/ice-cream-toppers

[Leo Boyd]

I said 'mess' quite a lot in that last post

[Leo Boyd]

Telehead Lampshade

[Leo Boyd]

ok ok ok.... i am working on another smaller scale wall screen print that i am going to do tomorrow on a bookshop door... it might work. it might look crap. soooo. here are a couple of pictures of the finished last thing that went well!
Leo

[Leo Boyd]

there is also this print!
the last paper one of this image innit... and it looks well nice in a frame
tho i am keeping the frame
Leo
leoboydprints.bigcartel.com/product/bird-feeder-2

[Leo Boyd]

So I did this today in a bit of a rush. But the sun shone and the street weirdos were nice to me.
It is just besides a 2nd hand bookshop in Belfast... I quite liked the idea of a cctv camera getting caught reading Banksy so er yeah thats what i did
more somewhere... here yes
www.facebook.com/The-Belfast-that-Time-Forgot-318094775064301/

[Leo Boyd]

So I have been mad busy again... but yesterday managed to get into my studio and work on some of my own pieces. It is a long process of layering paint and waiting for things to dry and doing ghost prints and waiting for them to dry etc etc... I did take some photos to put up here but now i cant find the bleedin lead to connect my phone
Soooo on that note have a go of this. This was part of the telehead screen print shop in the Electric Picnic.
Good times
Leo

[Leo Boyd]

seedhead arts have uploaded a load of images of the street art made for Hit the North
www.facebook.com/seedheadarts/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1138526182850336

[Leo Boyd]

Hard work yesterday down the print mines. Made some things work and other things err not so much.
Sorry about the rubbish photos but i blame my phone

[Leo Boyd]

Sept 23, 2016 9:04:21 GMT 1 Leo Boyd said:

I have been messing about with the CSS on my shop... learning as I mess stuff up... going to try and do some stuff later with the messy slide show thing but for now there is this new piece that I have just uploaded
cheers
Leo
leoboydprints.bigcartel.com/product/ice-cream-toppers

Sold!

[Leo Boyd]

Right I am off to hide in my studio for 2 days. No internet or phone. Just me and some screens and odd bits of wood. Good times.
See you on the other side
Leo

[Leo Boyd]

ok so that was pretty productive... I have been working on a series of portraits that I wanted to get done this weekend... I will finish the last one tomorrow as there aren't enough hours in the weekend.
So here are just a couple of pictures of work from the print mines
Cheers
Leo