Limited edition of 400.

I hope all of the Yankee fans out there have enjoyed the work ive put out this postseason, its been a whirlwind.  I'm going to get down to business and start printing now!

You can purchase the print here: www.sportspropaganda.com/yankees.html

Up next is a print for the winner of this years October Classic.  

No sleep for the wicked!

Now back to the cellar (aka my studio) for me...

The Topps prints have been available for a week or so, but the baseball cards that bear the same images are now available in stores.  Topps was kind enough to provide me with an uncut sheet:

Up next, the baseball playoffs and another Topps project illustrating UFC fighters!  See below for a link to the Topps site:

Visit Topps's website here to purchase prints: www.toppsonlinestore.com

or go to www.sportspropaganda.com/prints.html 

Here is the print:

and a step by step progression of what the print looked like in stages:

I've been printing day and night for the last 3 weeks. I'm pretty exhausted, and actually think i have developed a bit of tendinitis in my elbow from the repetitive motion.  Yes, an actual screen-printing injury. Who knew that could happen.  I'm not complaining though!  The Topps project is what has kept me so busy and I'm really excited about how the prints are coming out.  In mid-October, Topps Trading Cards will release their "2009 Updates and Highlights" baseball card set.  This is a 330 card set - 30 of which will feature my art.  To go along with the 30 cards, I will have full size screen-prints of the designs created in a limited edition available.  They will be sold on the Topps website, but i will provide a link on mine.  So far I've printed Pedroia, Tiexiera, Pujols, Ichiro, Lincecum, M. Ramirez, Wright, Helton, and Longoria.  There is one design for each team, and I am hoping to have most of the designs completed by the time the cards are released, but its honestly going to be a challenge doing so.  I will do my best though.  Topps is going to promote the prints on the back of each card, so the awareness should be high.  If your interested, keep an eye out, or get on my email list so you'll know when they are available.  See below for a preview of four of the prints:

I reorganized much of the store in my website recently.  The amount of work I now have available was creating quite a long page - I felt too long to expect people to have to scroll through.  I instead am now organizing prints (framed and unframed) by team.  This way, you can select your favorite team and browse that way.  Also, the framed prints are taking off and I'm really happy about it.  I know now that people really like the convenience of buying art "ready to hang".  I'm going to do my best to have framed prints available for every design I do.  If your considering purchasing a print as a gift for somebody or even for yourself, I would consider the framed option.  

I did a short radio interview this week with WJBC, Illinois Cardinals flagship station.  If you havent heard it, feel free to check it out here:  WWW.WJBC.COM

Lastly, I wanted to once again ask for everyones help promoting my work.  I dont have much in terms of advertising, so I depend on word of mouth.  If you know a baseball fan, or somebody looking to buy a gift, please send them my website (www.sportspropaganda.com).  Perhaps post on facebook, twitter or just by email the link to somebody. Trust me, it is much appreciated!  Thanks again for all of the support, I want to continue to bring new and exciting art to baseball fans!

Each design is made unique by the teams log, cityscape, World Series wins as well as the teams retired player numbers.  Along with these four, I have already completed the design (not the printing) on the Twins, White sox, Yankees, Dodgers and the Tigers.  By the way...If the "established" date for your team looks odd to you - take it up with MLB, all of these came from them.  Apparently the MLB standard for "Since Year" statements concerns when the city first had an MLB team, not when a particular franchise began.  Seemed odd to me, but I digress.  Anyway, I'm going to start printing one of the designs tomorrow morning and hope to have it ready for purchase by the weekend.  Hope you like them!  

The Topps project is coming along nicely.  MLB has just about approved all of the 30 designs and the prints should be ready sometime in October (along with my own "insert" set of baseball cards!!)  I'm going to be printing like crazy soon so I'll need to order paper next week.  If anybody wants to drive it up from my supplier in PA and save me a ton on shipping - feel free :)

See below for an example of one:

There are alot of great items being auctioned off to raise money to fight ALS - commonly known as Lou Gehrigs Disease.  Thanks for taking a moment to look :)