David Welker Summer Solstice Print Release

As we head into a hopeful summer David Welker decided to dust off some pieces that have been waiting in the wings to be released. He's been moving his old studio and setting up again in a new location in lower Manhattan and also out on Cape Cod. In the process of organizing he reworked and refined these 6 pieces for print editions.

Brick City Typo - Sepia Variant
Archival pigment on cotton rag with hand-deckled edges
~ 19 x 14 inches
Signed, embossed and hand-numbered edition of 50

Memory of a Memory
Archival pigment on cotton rag with hand-deckled edges
~ 22 x 16 inches
Signed, embossed and hand-numbered edition of 100

The Secret of the Seed
Archival pigment on cotton rag with hand-deckled edges
~ 24 x 16.5 inches
Signed, embossed and hand-numbered edition of 200

The Sentinel of Lost City
Archival pigment on cotton rag with hand-deckled edges
~ 14.5 x 11.5 inches
Signed, embossed and hand-numbered edition of 150
Minotaur Digesting a Monarch
Archival pigment on cotton rag with hand-deckled edges
~ 24 x 19 inches
Signed, embossed and hand-numbered edition of 100

The Fire Owl
Archival pigment on cotton rag with hand-deckled edges
~ 10 x 12 inches
Signed, embossed and hand-numbered edition of 175

All six prints will be available on Friday, June 18th @ 1PM EDT in Dave Welker's Online Store HERE.

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David Welker Studios Spring Show Releases

 

David Welker is excited to start 2021 off with a Spring Show featuring a new official print for Phish along with recent drawings, paintings, screenprints, and giclees. 

 I feel a lot of optimism in this catalog and I hope you feel it too. From December until now I've been pushing thick paint, graphite and ink in various forms of realism, fantasy, and abstraction.

For this show I have some very complex screen print work from three of my favorite print houses, End Hymns in Michigan, The Half & Half in South Carolina and Good Thoughts in Colorado (who affectionately delivers the "Stinkiest Ink" in the business).

I'm grateful for your continued support of my work and by extension to be able to support these great print houses all over the country.

As we move forward from here look for an official piece for Pink Floyd curated by David Gilmore himself. An official piece for the David Bowie Estate. An official piece for The Jerry Garcia Estate. And an official piece for The Grateful Dead, along with new paintings and drawings.-DW

To see all the art being released go HERE to see the Lookbook.

All prints will go on sale on Wednesday March 31 at 1PM EDT in his Welker Studios Store HERE ! For the first time ever, he will have a limited quantity of matching print sets of all 17 pieces in the show! Every tube will also receive a show card.

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David Welker WELKOWEEN Online Print Showcase Release

 

David Welker is releasing 12 new prints today.

I'm very happy to present my first ever Halloween Show. I love October so much. Every year I steep myself in Halloween lore both old and new. Something about the transition from the crisp remnants of a Summer past and the foreboding of Winter, evokes deep emotions in our souls. I tried to put together a mix of imagery to reflect the complexity of these feelings. I hope you enjoy the selections. Thank you so much for your continued support of my work.-DW

Base Camp
Archival pigment on cotton rag paper with hand-deckled edges 15 x 20 inches
Signed, embossed and hand-numbered edition of 100
$175

The Calling of Saint Jerry
Archival pigment on cotton rag paper with hand-deckled edges 16 x 12 inches
Signed, embossed and hand-numbered edition of 150
$150

Disassembled Man
Archival pigment on cotton rag paper with hand-deckled edges 14.8 x 12 inches
Signed, embossed and hand-numbered edition of 75
$100

All Saints Day
Screen print 15 x 8.5 inches
Signed and hand-numbered edition of 150
$100

Beware The Full Moon +3 variants
Screen print 16 x 14 inches
Signed and hand-numbered edition of 200
$100

Story Tree +1 Variant
Screen print 13 x 12 inches
Signed and hand-numbered edition of 150
$100

Lawn Bunny +1 Variant
13 color screen print 17 x 14 inches
Signed and hand-numbered edition of 150
$100

All of the prints in this showcase will be available on Thursday, October 29th @ 1PM ET via a special link which will be posted on his web-store homepage.

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David Welker Virtual Open House Release Details

It goes without saying that 2020 has thrown us all some serious curves.

Normally around this time of year David Welker would be opening his studio to the public. Needless to say that won’t be happening and David says he will truly miss greeting everyone in person. Nonetheless he's been working very hard on several new prints and originals so he'd like to invite you all to a very comprehensive, first ever virtual open house, this Friday July 10th starting at 12pm eastern.

"I hope you enjoy the line up for this show. It’s been so much fun creating and I will be working to finish the new pieces right up to show day." DW

Prints
Will go live in the Virtual Open House – Prints section at 12PM EST on Friday, July 10th.
Prints are limited to 1 per person/household of each edition.He will combine and refund shipping on multiple orders.
Random prints will be doodled. Prints will ship in 4 – 5 weeks. 

 

Mystery Tubes
Will go live in the Virtual Open House – Prints section at 12:15PM EST on Friday, July 10th.
Each tube will contain at least 3 prints. Prints may be from an edition, as well as APs, PPs, TPs and a chance of receiving small original drawings.
Each tube will cost $250.

 

Originals
Will go live in the Originals section of the website at 12:30PM EST on Friday, July 10th.
These are sold on a first come, first serve basis. Please click on the inquire button to submit a request to purchase. 

 

Check out all the work in the Show Catalog HERE.

 

Head over to  https://welker-studios.myshopify.com/ and loosen up that F5 finger.

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David Welker The Mill Road Art Print Release

Screenprint

 

Giclee

 

Details from David Welker on his new print release:

I've always been fascinated with Rural America, Appalachia, and the ominous beauty of the post industrial "Rust Belt" region. My family had Midwest roots after immigrating mostly from Scotland in the early 19th Century. My Grandmother from a poor coal mining family in Alabama moved North and met a wealthy son of a publishing family just West of Cleveland, Ohio. Our family travels through Western Pennsylvania and Ohio are forever etched in my memories, as are the sensibilities of that rural mindset.

For this latest piece titled "The Mill Road" I worked in cooperation with Coal Camp USA and Rust Belt journalist Chris DellaMea. Originally a part of some research for a concert poster for "The Decemberists" playing in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania in 2011, at the time I changed gears and chose a more stylized depiction of "Steel Town" for the final poster. So all these years later I decided to rework the old sketch I had started back then. And having lost the original photo, I finished it from memory.

I think there is some extra charm in the piece having waited for so many years and with the subtle interpretations of memory.

Now my good friends at The Half & Half in South Carolina have made a beautiful screen print edition on an Opal Pearlescent paper and we will also have a beautifully hand-deckled giclee edition as well.

The Mill Road
Screen print on Opal Pearlescent paper
13 x 16 inches
Signed and hand-numbered edition of 200

The Mill Road - Giclee Edition
Archival pigment on cotton rag paper with hand-deckled edges
14.5 x 17.6 inches
Signed, embossed and hand-numbered edition of 100

The Mill Road will be available on Wednesday, June 10th at 1PM EDT in his store https://welker-studios.myshopify.com/.

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David Welker Grandpa Fish & Cuttlefish Art Prints Release

David Welker wanted to revisit his underwater series this week with two new screen prints. The Grandpa Fish was a chance to take the Inedible series in an anthropomorphic direction. A young fish is asking advice from a wise old fish who has seen a lot of plankton in his lifetime. This will be a 10 layer screen print with opaque silver highlights.

The Cuttlefish is a 6 layer screen print on a very cool paper stock called Stardream Opal Metallic. David has always loved Cuttlefish and their intelligent eyes. They can hypnotize their prey with bio-luminescence.

The Grandpa Fish
10 color screen print with opaque silver highlights
7.5 x 10.5 inches
Signed and hand-numbered edition of 150

The Cuttlefish
6 color screen print on Stardream Opal metallic stock
9 x 10.5 inches
Signed and hand-numbered edition of 150

Both prints will be available on Wednesday, April 15th at 1PM ET in his web-store.

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David Welker The Mining Colony Art Print Release

This Friday David Welker will release his first painting of the year as a print edition. The title is "The Mining Colony". The piece developed slowly from abstraction into a fairly distinct pictorial landscape over the course of about five weeks.

Details and a message from DW:

I like when artwork transports me and I enjoy imagining what sort of minerals or gems the people who built this outpost are searching for, what their mining methods are and how far they are from any other civilization.

The piece itself is the first of a series of painting commissions that I'm taking on as a new direction for my career. I'll have more information very soon about how to register for a commission slot.

In the meantime, I hope you enjoy this edition. I realize these are trying times, but I must keep working for essential reasons. I am, as always, deeply grateful for your support.

Thank you and stay strong and safe.

The Mining Colony
Archival pigment on cotton rag paper with hand deckled edges 27 x 20 inches
Signed, embossed and hand-numbered edition of 125
$225

"The Mining Colony" will be available on Friday, April 3rd @ 1PM EDT at https://welker-studios.myshopify.com/

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David Welker The Great Divide Art Print Release

As David Welker turns the corner out of another Winter in the Northeast he has found himself drawing to balance the intensity of the slower process of painting again. One of the pieces that came out during this graphite flurry was a solitary figure standing over a frozen river. The drawing itself is a jumble of scratchy, gestural marks that almost appears abstract from certain angles. It's a symbolic moment of contemplation and crossroads in the wilderness. The land between the great continental watersheds where an explorer of a time long ago would come upon a river that flowed to a different ocean than the one he came from.

Archival pigment on cotton rag paper with hand deckled edges
Size 14 x 12.7 inches
Signed, embossed and hand-numbered edition of 125

The piece is titled "The Great Divide" and it will be available on Wednesday, March 18th @ 1PM ET on his web-store https://welker-studios.myshopify.com/.

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David Welker The Heart Feels Art Print Release

It’s Valentine’s Week, and what a lovely week it will be. To celebrate all the lovers out there, David Welker's newest print will be released this Wednesday!

The Heart Feels is a drippy little piece with a lot of heart. David feels it's always fun working on smaller, detailed drawings, and he hopes this print helps make Valentine’s a bit more special for some.

The Heart Feels
Archival pigment on cotton rag paper with hand deckled edges.
11 x 11 inches.
Signed, embossed and hand-numbered edition of 70.

The Heart Feels will be available Wednesday at 1PM EST on https://welker-studios.myshopify.com/ 

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David Welker The Country House Art Print Release

With the new year comes new work, and this Friday, David Welker will be releasing a print version of his painting, The Country House.

The Country House is a painting that many people have asked him about since its inception and conception last year for Art Basel, and he is happy that a print version was able to capture the multi-layered dimensions and colors of the original. They've also added a varnish layer to give it some extra pop.

Archival pigment on cotton rag paper with hand varnish layer
~ 17 x 20 inches
Signed, embossed and hand-numbered edition of 100
$150

The Country House will be available Friday February 2 12PM EDT at  https://welker-studios.myshopify.com/

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David Welker Black Keys Primus The Hermit Prints Release

This Wednesday David Welker is release his Artist Edition for The Black Keys recent concert in Orlando Florida. It's a well crafted 6 layer screen print with a full bleed flood of silver metallic ink. It really pops in person. It's 15x22" in a signed and numbered edition of 50 prints.

Also on deck will be his poster for the recent Primus concert in Raleigh North Carolina. It's a Dark and Gruesome 15x21" six layer screen print in a signed and numbered edition of 50 prints. Both concert posters will be $45.

Finally, he is releasing "The Hermit". This will be a hand deckled, embossed, color giclee edition of one of his favorite pieces from the Art on Paper show earlier this year. Signed and numbered in a intimate edition of 40 prints and available for $70.

All of these prints will be available Wednesday November 13 at 12PM EST in his store https://welker-studios.myshopify.com/

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David Welker Wednesday Prints Release aka The MONSTER DROP

David Welker is heading into an intense work phase in preparation for a year ending Open House at the new Brooklyn showroom. He hopes to see you there on December 29th. For those of you attending the Sunday night Phish show at Madison Square Garden he'll open the doors at 12 noon so it can be a festive pre-show gathering with Art & Music & Fellowship in mind.

In the meantime, he is releasing several editions this Wednesday to help support the two month immersion to prepare for this show.

David says

"I'm very excited about these colorful multi layered screen prints. I've waited for this time to release them before the Holidays get too close. I get a lot of emails from people who have yet to hit a print drop as well as long time collectors who are having trouble hitting drops. I hope that having some options and some decent sized editions will help first time collectors and veterans to land something they want. I truly appreciate your ongoing support of my work. I'm hoping to develop a "Troubadour" themed landscape series for the December show. I think I'll probably be as surprised as anyone else at the outcome. See you soon!"

All of the prints will be available on Wednesday (10/23) at 12PM EDT on his web-store HERE.

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David Welker Coney Island Self-Portrait & More Art Prints Release

What's happening with David Welker you wonder, well I'll let him tell you.

"As we say farewell to another Summer the anticipation of a new concert season, a new gallery season and the spectacle of ComicCon all propel us on to a different kind of adventure. Before I reveal my concert posters both slated for post Halloween I’d like to close one long chapter in my recent history. The first piece I created for my Hoerle-Guggenheim retrospective was titled “Coney Island” and the choices made in that piece paved the way for the rest of the show. I wanted to create a pictorial narrative and also break that picture plane at the same time. This piece accomplished both concepts more than any other piece from that show. So I’d like to offer this as a print edition along with my tortured self portrait from that time period which depicts the feeling of preparing for a 30 year retrospective show in a huge gallery space with less than a year to prepare and just about every other challenge life could throw at me. This will formally and officially close the Hoerle-Guggenheim editions. I truly appreciate the love and support I received for this show. Both editions will be released this Wednesday at noon Eastern time in my website store.

Now fast forward one day and we are at another vast ComicCon event with the Bottleneck crew holding center court as usual. Unsurpassed again as the preeminent pop culture gallery in the world. It's always a thrill to see what they bring to this event. And as usual I am the oddest thing that they’ll be showing because once again I’m offering an abstract painting print edition. This time a very colorful piece titled “Mind Excavation”. Hand deckled, signed and numbered and embossed in an intimate edition exclusively for ComicCon.

As we head towards Halloween I’m working on one of the most intense landscape drawings I’ve ever done. I hope to have it ready for an Autumn release. In November I’ll have two ambitious concert posters I’m currently working hard to complete. Early December we jump to sunny Miami for Art Basel.

And as we look forward to another Phish invasion of Madison Square Garden this New Years Eve I am hoping to host an open house event with new work and a special Gamehendge piece I’ve had on my mind for 27 years about a certain Colonel climbing a certain mountain. Let’s see what happens." DW

Coney Island
Archival pigment on cotton rag paper with hand-deckled edges
~ 23.3 x 17.6 inches
Signed, deckled, embossed and hand-numbered edition of 75
$150
On Sale Wednesday, October 2nd  12PM ET.

Self-Portrait
Archival pigment on cotton rag paper with hand-deckled edges
~ 14.3 x 14.3 inches
Signed, deckled, embossed and hand-numbered edition of 40
$100
On Sale Wednesday, October 2nd @ 12PM ET

Mind Excavation
Archival pigment on cotton rag paper with hand-deckled edges
~ 16 x 16 inches
Signed, deckled, embossed and hand-numbered edition of 60
$125
Available at NYCC Booth #2160 - Bottleneck Gallery

Coney Island and Self-Portrait will be available ONLINE on Wednesday, October 1st at 12PM ET in his web store.

Mind Excavation is a NYCC exclusive that will be released by Bottleneck Gallery, Booth #2160, starting Thursday, October 3rd at the Javits Center!

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David Welker Claypool Lennon Delirium Denver Poster Release

The ongoing collaboration between Sean Lennon and Les Claypool is true artistry and David Welker was honored to be a part of this tour. 

Its 20x16.5" on Neenha paper with heavy Ultra Violet cured, Nazdar polymer ink. This is the Artists Edition for the August 17th Ogden Theatre show. They will be signed and numbered out of 70 and cost $45 each.

Little news about David's up coming schedule. This Late Summer moving into Fall look for a very special Art Print along with prints at Comic Con followed by two more Concert Posters before the Holidays.

 He'll be releasing his nine color, thick 'n stanky screen print this Wednesday, August 21st at Noon EDT in his website store https://welker-studios.myshopify.com/

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David Welker Conference on the Mound & Phish Boston Release Update

David Welker is happy at last to offer his artists edition of the recent Phish from Vermont at Boston's famed Fenway Park print. This release will be a random lottery that will stay open for a half hour on Wednesday, July 24th @ 12PM to 12:30PM EDT.

Just checkout with the free lottery entry option on the homepage and you will be automatically entered. Limit of 1 entry per person/household, multiple entries will be disqualified. It's a seven color screen print with three metallic inks at 16x16" in an Artists Edition of 50 prints for $50. Winners will be emailed by 12:45PM and will have 15 minutes to checkout before we pick new winners.

David also wanted to commemorate that intense Saturday rain delay show with an art print titled "Conference on the Mound". It was a wild day and after hours of buckets of rain and bolts of lightening that threatened to send the rain soaked devotees home the band took the stage and delivered an epic one set show like the troubadours that they are.

This release will include a 14 color screen print main edition with a 9 color metallic variant and a deep impression letterpress also available on Wednesday at 12PM EDT.

Both will be available at https://welker-studios.myshopify.com/

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David Welker Phish Boston Fenway Park Poster Release

Phish had David Welker do an exclusive poster for their pop-up shop this past weekend.

According to David:

It was a real thrill to make a poster for the mighty Phish from Vermont playing at the fabled and storied Fenway Park in ye olde Boston City. I lived in Boston for a few formative years in the late 80's and first saw Phish in 1989 at a small club just up the hill and westward from Fenway Park. I felt a sparkling energy coming off the stage way back then in that intimate 500 capacity venue. I knew they were up to something. It was undeniable. They were Wizards. Mad Scientists. I have to say it feels like a dream returning after 30 years and seeing them in Fenway Park and having the honor of making this piece to commemorate the occasion. This one is very special to me, and I really hope you enjoy it. It's a seven layer screen print with three metallic inks. The original pen and ink and hand drawn supplemental layers are possibly the most detailed and balanced work I've ever done for a poster. Thank you to everyone who braved the heat and made the effort to grab one at the pop up shop.

For the release of his personal copies David will do a random lottery on Wednesday, July 17th at 12Noon EDT. There will also be a special additional print dropping alongside the lottery at www.welkerstudios.com

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David Welker Art Prints & Orginals Release

For those of you who could not attend David Welker's Studio open house Saturday he wanted to release some of the show editions and one new edition that he intended for the show but ran out of time to produce.

"The Watering Hole" is the last of the paintings originally started for the Hoerle-Guggenheim show and completed just last week. He'll be offering it as a limited edition print along with limited supplies of a few other editions as well as a few originals. Dragon Twine will be released online at a later date.In total there are 7 prints and 5 originals be released.

The online release will be Wednesday, June 5th at 12 noon EDT in his shop at https://welker-studios.myshopify.com/

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David Welker Studio Grand Opening 2.0

Bottleneck Gallery have got a new neighbor: David Welker! David recently relocated his art studio to Brooklyn, and they’d like to welcome him, and all of you, to the neighborhood with a brand new Open House!

Despite the big move, David’s been pouring his time into a multitude of new pieces, and he’s incredibly excited to share them with all of his fans. The new studio is filled to the brim with David’s work, both old and new, and they’re excited for everybody to take a look around!

Here are the details for the event--all times listed below are in EDT:

Doors to Welker Studios, located at 60 Broadway, will open Saturday (6/1) @ 2PM. The show will run until 6PM.

Due to the new location, camping is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. To make it fair for all attending, they’ll be implementing the following process:

They will have a sign-in sheet on Friday (5/31) from 12PM to 6PM; and on Saturday (6/1) from 8AM until doors open.

For people arriving on Friday 12PM ET, they will hold a lottery at 12:30PM EDT to determine your position for making a purchase at show’s opening. Please be advised that you will have to return at 1PM EDT on Saturday (6/1) to join the entry line. Orders will be taken in sequential number order! If you are not present when your number is called, you will forfeit your place in line and must go to the back of the line in order to purchase anything.

Each person will receive a ticket after signing in. ONE ticket per person, and you CANNOT sign in other people.

David Welker will be in attendance throughout the event.

Refreshments will be served!

There will be several new originals and the main gallery space will be hung salon style with dozens of pieces from his three decade long career. David will be debuting close to twenty new limited edition prints including techniques from deep impression letterpress to screen print to special ultra violet cured varnished giclees and foils! There will also be two show cards specially made for the opening.

David will be in attendance greeting visitors and hand remarking prints all day, so please don't be shy.

Moving forward the gallery will have public hours and they will continue to have special openings as new work emerges. Says David "As an artist this is truly a dream scenario to have an ongoing public venue for my work in such a cool place, hosted by a crew of visionary professionals with a worldwide reputation of excellence, the best customer service in the business and who continually treat artists and collectors with respect and dignity."

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David Welker Ghosts of the Forest Philadelphia Poster Release

According to David Welker "I was very excited to do a new piece for Trey Anastasio's latest side project "Ghosts of the Forest" at their Philadelphia show last week. I feel like this imagery has been in my subconscious for a very long time and this was the perfect opportunity to get it out onto paper. I appreciate Trey's heart, vision and dedication. It takes a certain kind of will to do what he does and his complexities and sincerity are always evident in everything he does. I tried to reflect that in this piece. Love, sincerity, mystery, and exploration.
My personal copies are the last one hundred numbers from the show edition of five hundred. For those who attended the show, I'm sorry I didn't have time to have the edition shipped to me for signing prior to the event. My personal copies will be signed and for anyone attending my gallery grand opening on June first in Brooklyn I will happily sign your show copies in person."

The screen print is a concise 19x14" and is a five layer screen print expertly crafted by The Half & Half in South Carolina with a subtle push pull between warm and cool metallic inks. The feel is oddly reminiscent of moonlight in a dreamscape.

For David's gallery grand opening on June 1st, he will have a special full color art print version of this piece titled "From Stars Returning". The opening will be from 2-6pm eastern at 60 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY.

Ghosts of the Forest will be available on his web store page HERE Tuesday, April 9th at 12PM EDT.

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David Welker Lucky Numbers & Lens Fish Prints Release

As we head into Spring David Welker is excited to release two new prints. The most ambitious print in the "Inedible Fish" series, "The Lens Fish" is a 10 color screen print, deftly handled by the excellent crew at The Half and Half in South Carolina. Signed and numbered on Cranes, Florescent White, in an edition of 150 prints.

Next up is another favorite of David's from his 2015 Hoerle-Guggenheim retrospective show. This one is titled "Lucky Numbers" and will be an embossed, hand deckled giclee in an edition of 100 prints.

Lucky Numbers
Fine art giclee 17 x 14 inches
Signed, deckled, embossed and hand-numbered edition of 100
$125

Lens Fish
10-color screen print on Cranes fluorescent stock 13.25 x 9.25 inches
Signed and hand-numbered edition of 150
$65

Both prints will come with corresponding Certificates of Authenticity and will be available Wednesday April 3rd, at noon EST in his store at www.welkerstudios.com/

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