FAMILY

Stasis/Bloodhoney hoodie

For the doom metal band Stasis from the lovely state of Maine.

Warrior/Hunter

Illustration/design for New Jersey's (Damn) This Desert Air t-shirts.

fly eagle-deth, to everyone

Junius + Tombs + Irepress + Herra Terra. Middle East Club, Cambridge, Mass.
First draft.

Wriggle By Day, Writhe By Night

SWARMING HORDES!! 1996-2006 Discography
12" vinyl record jackets. Very limited release of only 42 copies via Los Angeles based label Trademark Recordings..
metallic gold and black ink on wicked nice paper.





Still need to be cropped and scored..

comrade

Kyle Bryant in the shop

geometry from decay

colepitz reunion shirt

Slaying some prints...

Autumn Dweller

Haunted Harmonies Halloween Show: The Cyborg Trio + Baltic Sea.
Heavy tagboard. 3 screens. 14"x22". Run of 67. s/n





Prints done today while jammin some black metal and German rock.
Color gradiants on two of the screens. Metallic silver to blue,
then the second layer red to orange to metallic gold/yellow.

The Acadia Sessions

Over five years ago my friends Marc & Gina Bartholomew first rented a warehouse space in the Bayside neighborhood of Portland, Maine to build a recording studio. My band Conifer was the first band to record in the space...barely any walls erected and with minimal gear we recorded our first full length. That was in 2004. Since then they have recorded some of the best records to come out of our city & elsewhere (Ocean, Cerberus Shoal, Seekonk, An Evening With, from extreme metal to indie rock to folk and beyond)... Their latest endeavor, with the help of film documentarian David Camlin, is a new music documentary series filmed inside the studio called The Acadia Sessions to be aired this winter on public television's WPBN:

The Acadia Sessions Trailer from Marc Bartholomew on Vimeo.

Today I printed the posters for the shows launch party at Space Gallery..



((taped the screens up))



((multi-colored split fountain w/ metallic gold into red/orange into green))



[first layer down}




((then the final layer of black))


{pop}



done.

Illustration

PICNIC 2009

The music + craft festival was a success, despite the pouring rain all day. We almost sold out of the "Bury Me In Maine" shirts and another design. Thank you to all who came out that day and to the festival organizers who made the event possible.
One of the best performances of the day was a great set by the band Batshelter. Go see them.

SWARMING HORDES 1996-2006 LP

Swarming Hordes 12" discography! Lathe cut vinyl by Peter King, New Zealand. Clear vinyl, VERY LIMITED to only 42 copies available mid-September for pre-order from Los Angeles based record label Trademark Recordings. I designed the drafts below and will be screen printing the jackets. Metallic gold and black ink on hvy white.


(front)



(back)


"Alright, let’s go straight to the facts by listing the three most important bands in Seattle music history: The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Nirvana, and the Swarming Hordes. No, this is not hyperbole. Ask anyone who has lived in Seattle for the past decade or two and they’ll say the exact same thing. The Hordes toured with Modest Mouse, said “fuck you” to an offer from Sub Pop, played so hard they’d often throw up at the end of shows, had fashion mullets and ironic mustaches before it was fashionable and ironic, skateboarded to Hell and back while cranking Nuns Have No Fun, made Slayer and Metallica temporarily break-up, and laughed in the face of the Fucking Champs. No superlatives needed. Seriously, just ask. I dare you. Just ask! Bow down and play some fucking metal."


Members went on to jam with Girth, the Abodox, and tons of other bands.

"cauliflower ear"

(back)

BLACK FLAG GRIPS

T-shirts for the on-set grip crew of the film The Fighter, directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale, to be released sometime in 2010. The story of boxer Micky Ward.

"I am the walrus....skull."

It's a New Day On The Prairie

CD Release gig poster for Arms & Sleepers + Junius.
MiddleEast Club, Cambridge, MA.

Lee "Scratch" Perry printed

Metallic gold and black ink. 11x17. hvy tagboard. Run of 100. s/n

kaveldt two-thousand-nine

Empennage + Arm Factory at PICNIC Music & Arts Festival

Confirmed...i think. I will have a booth and the print shop co-op will have one hopefully right next to me. The event will be taking place at Lincoln Park in downtown Portland, Maine on September 12th... It will have a number of local bands performing, many many crafters and some food vending going on. I will be doing a very limited run of posters for the PICNIC Festival..and there might be a giant fluffy monster eating itself on the poster, but that has not been confirmed yet.

[Photo Recap] ASSEMBLE at SPACE GALLERY 7.18

Last Saturday the 18th the Arm Factory took over SPACE with live painting on stage, delicious food and live screen printing! Below are the process pics for the Baltic Sea posters I did and Arm Factory poster comrade Daryl Tapley printing an original limited run. Pictures taken by fellow local screen-printer Kris Johnsen...








2 colors down!




Setting up registration for the final color...