Portrait & Character Sketch Season, 2024: email: martydeey@gmail.com

Canine photo-bombing in progress in the City of dreams. Living the dream.

 

Was there ever a better time to have a portrait done?!?  !!!!!!.  I just finished one, and definitely ready to take on one more.  !! Lets get 2023 off to a great start!  email: Martydeey@gmail.com

 

 

Marty David images: The world I experience; with color, and form.

 

 The pursuit of my passion...

 

    ...of which- said passion, of mine, is creating and sharing original images of the Olympic Peninsula, and other places, where I travel. Some of my recent works have been statements, or explorations of the world I experience, rendered with color, and form, and we're displayed, and some sold, here and there, mostly around the Puget Sound area. 

A painting of a mountain Biker, rendered by my hand, that sold out of a Waterstreet, Port Townsend gallery in the summer of 2022,

 

 

I created the piece, using a variation of an experimental technique that I refer to as colors blast.  This painting, that was sold, already, is now being featured on a print, and greeting card. Interestingly a gallery in downtown Port Townsend sold the original painting, within two weeks from the time of its premier, and paid to have it framed, and shipped it to Chicago. Unfortunately sparks flew from the owner, and curator, when I asked questions about that transaction, since I had only received a minuscule amount for the painting, and I knew that the framing, and shipping costs, alone, would dwarf what I had been paid for the actual piece of art.  an inquiry by me followed; and very shortly after my inquiry about the transaction, that gallery and I discontinued working together, over disagreements about some communication, or transparency issues, or an assumed accusation that I was being un-trusting, as an associate artist of the gallery, and, I guess, deemed by the curator to be problematic, and unjustifiably accusatory, or questioning, in my expressing, any desire at all to know any of the details of the sale, that must have certainly been substantial in the bottom line, compared to the minuscule amount that I was paid for the original art piece. I really do thank that Gallery downtown for or the opportunity that resulted from getting to have my artwork there, at a Gallery with a fairly high profile or at least prime real estate- store front, and I had to decide that I am now moving on. 

   My being able to see that my art could sell in that sort of situation of high end exposure was invaluable, and confirmed what I always believed, and that was always doubted and turned aside by galleries, in the past that commanded high end demographic locations- rejections for their own reasons, of which I can't be sure. That my work would sell, almost immediately, in a

situation that it would receive top billing, or prominent placement in a top notch real estate location- of high profile venue was something tat I always knew would be proven as soon as one of my works would be given such opportunity. So it was something that proved itself to be true, when I was able to finally have it tested. 

 

  

 

Airbrushed art wearables at PT Shirt Co., and Oly Peninsula Outlets: also; More graphics -designs :Email martydeey@gmail.com 3603026354

Wearable art- Crow themed ballcaps

Available, often at the PT Shirt company, in Port Townsend.   

Or contact me at Martydeey@gmail.com , to place order.

Taco Racing Team -Wearable Art 

Retail: $22.00

 Wholesale: (1 dozen min order) $13.00

 

Farming Dreams -Olympic Peninsula

 $25.00

 Available by order, from, me, or purchased from PT Shirt Company- location: Waterstreet, Port Townsend.  Maybe call ahead, and ask about availability, of your size.  A mixed media airbrushed original, combined with direct to fabric printing of my line artwork, derived from my original airbrush work.  Each shirt is an original.  Inspired by my three summers  working at Shorts farm, in Chimacum, before the tragedy of Roger losing the rest of his sight. And my own experience growing up on a small farm, in the Seabeck- Central Kitsap County area.  

Prices as generally are most often offered by me and local distributors are listed in this post: 

Wholesale purchasers prices will generally be about forty percent less, or even more discount.  

  Generally speaking different colors of shirts shirts will be twenty seven dollars for standard Tee shirts in color.  White will be three dollars less, and Black will be a dollar less, than the colors, or shirts in middle tones. Shirt styles that vary from the standard tee shirt can generally add between eight and eighteen dollars to the cost of a regular shirt.  Most likely these more special type of shirts will be procurable by special order from me. and I'll give you an example -If I airbrushed the Wild Things -Oly Pen shirt on one of the specialty shirts, like a 'hoodie': The cost of the shirt could be as much as Twenty dollars more than the Same image on a black, plain tee shirt, although that is not likely, since I frequently shop the web for the best qualities, and prices, and styles to be able to pass those premiums along to you.  3xL shirts must add about 1, or two dollars, based at my present prices that I commonly receive from Manufacturers.  Most shirts that I will stock retail establishments with will likely be the common style of tee shirts, with occasional offerings to them of my wearable art on special wearable clothing, like hoodies and Sweatshirts, or long- instead of short sleeve, and other shirts with more premium, or specialt quality fabric.  The most sure way to get one of these more special order, or individual tailored style of shirts is going to be to contact me directly, or visit PT Shirt Company, on Waterstreet, at 940 Waterstreet, in Port Townsend.  My email Address is:  martydeey@gmail.com ,for anyone interested in putting in an order.  Feel free to put in any contact info in your email to me, that might help me get through to you in a mode that works for you.  You might mention, if you prefer emails, or texts, or direct phone calls, and if you have a preferred time to be contacted, please include that.  

I am from here on- in this post, then going to present images of some of my shirts, and then mention the price that they can be purchased from me, or, at the ballpark price, that they can most likely be purchased from PT Shirt Co., at 940 Waterstreet, Port Townsend.

This may take me a few days to accomplish this whole task- thank you for your patience!

Wild Things Tracks: Twenty six Dollars.

Bee stripes (shirt only): $ 25.00 -retail

Wild Oly-Pen Tracks with badger prints: $25.00 -retail

A quick side note about A-frame signs:

(MORE SHIRTS BELOW)

Sandwich Board sign by David

Sample 1: Petrick Lock and Safe,

 Located at Kively Ctr, 

in Port Hadock, WA

 NOW; MORE SHIRTS:

 (Progressions in the production of this just featured sign can be seen at the ending of post.)

Psychedelic Pirate tee: 30.00

 

 

 

My handy work on the KEYS MADE sign, made for display, at Kivley Center near the beginning of Oak Bay rd, as a traveler would be leaving Hadlock towards Marrowstone, and Pt Ludlow.

Wild Things with Cat Eyes: $30.00 -on regular black tee.

Also to be a featured in my wearable art this year will be some wearable art items that will have an impression done by silk screening the accents of the image on as the base, then the personalized art airbrushing process will follow that first image impression, designed by me: so that the finished product will be a mixed media piece.  I will either be doing the silk screen impression myself, or hiring a local silk screen/ serigraphy expert to do the art.  That producer of the serigraph will be posted then on this site. Also I will be doing a few shirts that will be produced entirely using silk screen process that will be a single color silk screen print on a wearable item, and the art originating from art done from my hand. Just as you see here; with this image of the 67 Mustang Fastback GT, to be printed locally, or by Me.Mustang '67 GT Fastback: Prices pending Not presently in stock.

Fort Warden: $ 28.00

 EMERALD CITY: $28.00

Wild Oly Pen Tracks with Cat Eyes-specialty shirt: $32

Bee costume shirt with bee kind image: $32.00

Selling already (again)- and coming to locations near you, very soon:

DISPLAYED Soon at the PT Shirt Company, and also these locations, 

WILL BE:

 **** THE NEW LINE OF ***

 ***  ORIGINAL AIRBRUSH ART TEEs images***

As to whether the tees will be sold at Aldrich's, as were my face masks- offered there in the past- I'm not yet able to confirm.

   Psychedelic Bee $26.00

     Posting this pic of 4 shirts delivered in early July, of '23 to someone who recently retired from the marine trades, and has patronized my art business in the past:

 I produce these wearable art shirts for $26.00 each original. And also images, of two other wearable art -Marine Trades shirts, that were produced, and sold by me.

 

 

The farming dreams wearable art pieces are not being offered yet. They will eventually be offered, as soon as I work out some production issues.

Price: (presently not available.)

Froggy Farm Dreams will not feature My name scrawled multiple times.  This is just an internet security measure.  This wearable art image shirt will probably soon be made available as a reproduction.  Ill post the latest about this, as soon as i get it. That will be decided soon.

     Finally, if this froggy farm themed original wearable does come out instead as a reproduction, then it may be available at some  retail outlets, and I'll post information about those places. I could still end up offering this shirt as an original airbrushed art image, but I haven't yet convinced myself that I can produce original airbrushed shirts with this image theme efficiently enough to continue to offer those even thru me, except  by special order.  So here's some others.

Bee Kind (basic); retail:  $22.00 

Wholesale (Dozen Min order); $13.00

 

Also, recently- still being sold at Aldrich's Market,  in the Uptown neighborhood of Port Townsnd, were: 
ORIGINAL ART FACE MASKS, products by Marty David. There may still be some of those available there.

5 design choices.

     Stay healthy, everyone.

 

Tee shirt washing instructions:

Washing airbrushed wearable art: (skip pre-soak if item is not heavily soiled, or stained). Using pre-wash soak: seven minutes baking soda- 1 tablespoon per gallon in room temperature water and then light agitation and kneading the soda water through the fabric for 1 minute. Quick rinse, then transfer into the soap-water solution. Best soap to be used for washing a wearable art item will be a sudsing liquid hand soap according to my experience, and research. Agitating and kneading for 90 seconds in room temperature. If heavily soiled increase agitation time. If some staining or soiling remains. Repeat using 1 or two drops dish soap on stain spots, -especially grease, and use warm water for heavier soiling, but only at greater risk of decreasing the life of the wearable art image. The same goes for increasing the strength of the soap and the vigor of the agitation in the washing process. Using the process recommended will make it likely that the image retains at least 90 percent of its original sharpness and saturation after 8 washings, at minimum.   Send to martydeey@gmail.com  any questions about washing, or other issues involving a purchased airbrush original art piece by Marty David.