Antique French Print - Lobster Boy Meets Escargot Girl - Hard Shell Furries - Young Love a la Plage - Down The Shore

Antique French Print - Lobster Boy Meets Escargot Girl - Hard Shell Furries - Young Love a la Plage - Down The ShoreTreasures from the Food & Drink Collection at The Grand Review. Print size 16 x 24, and works with a 16 x 24 frame, or custom framed as you see fit. Lobster Boy SNAP SNAP! I can still hear my kids when they were tiny running through the house and laughing through those words. So goofy I love 'em! I was concerned when we started to work on Lobster Boy Meets Escargot Girl that something of the charm of the tiny Victorian trade card in my hand would be

Treasures from the Food & Drink Collection at The Grand Review.  Print size 16 x 24, and works with a 16 x 24 frame, or custom framed as you see fit.

Lobster Boy... SNAP SNAP!  I can still hear my kids when they were tiny running through the house and laughing through those words.  So goofy... I love 'em!

I was concerned when we started to work on Lobster Boy Meets Escargot Girl that something of the charm of the tiny Victorian trade card in my hand would be lost when we went colossal with it.  From past experience I knew that it could and would be a real roll of the dice.  Sometimes the physical finish of the original, in this case a laid on, strong copper ink, can turn the final result to mud.  On the other hand, by daring to take that chance, the rewards sometimes bring roars of joy in the studio.  I'm happy to announce the latter is the case here.  I really just love this print on so many levels.  Who dreamed it up?  Who brought that vision to life? How delightful the countenance of our little coquette of a bigorne.  Love it!

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A NOTE ON OUR PROCESS, OUR CHOICES AND THE QUALITY OF THE GRAPHIC CRAFTSMANSHIP THAT GOES INTO OUR PRINTS.
Every print we deem exciting enough to present to the public via our Etsy store or available here at our studio has gone through a number of steps.  The first of those is always discovering and falling in love with an obscure image, always an original that we can hold in our hands.  That image is speaking to us, sometime screaming “Don’t leave me here.  See what I am, what I was, what I can be, what I SHOULD be!”

There is a real sense of excitement involved, and a great many smiles and knowing grins when we make that deal and bring that ancient print, that battered photo, that scrap of ephemera that contains some scrap of genius from an unknown commercial artist home with us, knowing already how we mean to approach its restoration.

There is the heady promise of a further hunt just as real as what drags a weekend fisherman out of bed at 3AM to work a favorite brook as we start our research, looking for that great backstory, and both ready and willing to tumble down as many rabbit holes as are revealed to us to get that story.

Then there is a meticulous digital restoration that is as often as much fun as riding a vintage Moto Guzzi on a winding coastal road.  I don’t care if that sounds crazy, it really is like jumping in the saddle!  So many choices, so many chances to take to subtly or spectacularly give new life to otherwise permanently obscure images.

This dedication and the ongoing rush of joy in the accomplishment of it, and the opportunity to share the results in our studio and here on Etsy, is the fire of passion that keeps these engines roaring. We make every effort to ensure our customers are not just satisfied but thrilled, and we happily stand 100% behind our work.