WINDY LANE STUDIO
THANK YOU, etsy, for the introduction this afternoon to Kai Samuels-Davis, painter extraordinaire and shopkeep at Windy Lane Studio. Kai’s expressive realist-style paintings are composed of cerebral, visceral figures, landscapes and objects – “creating a mood of melancholy and solitude”. Exactly the kind of things I want hanging on my walls, enveloping my surroundings. Here are some...
WORKHORSE PRINTMAKERS: AN EVENING of LETTERPRESS
Last Thursday I was invited to the new studio belonging to our friends Jennifer Blanco and John Earles at Workhorse Printmakers for an AIGA student workshop: AN EVENING of LETTERPRESS. They were lovely hosts and provided a wealth of knowledge and experience to guide us through the process — even for an apprehensive letterpresser like myself. Here’s a...
UNDER THE SHEETS
Here is a peek under the sheets, if you will – a look into the design direction I chose to update the blog with this time around. I wanted to create an Americana-style theme based on the colors used in World War I era Liberty Bond posters. I’ve long loved the historic beauty of these posters and...
Lauren Fleishman: love ever after
I was the kind of girl that fell in love right away. So the next day I would tell my friend, terrific, I’m in love already! But after my first date with Sol I did not feel that way. I think it only proved to this day that you cant judge right away. It may...
Future Primitive and More: CTRL + ART + CREATE
I’m feeling particularly happy and excited today to announce the first unveiling of Future Primitive, my line of rubber stamps. It’s going to be held at Ctrl + Art + Create on Saturday, November 5, 2011, from 10 a.m. — 2 p.m at the Heights Theater. I’ll have prêt-à-porter stamps for teachers and people who like to use stamps...
LOUISE FILI FOR THE POSTAL SERVICE
I seriously just lost a really long post about stamps. Until I regain composure and can type this up again, here is what I wanted to show you. It’s a Louise Fili stamp for 2012! { I just wrote like 4 paragraphs on this }Is there a way to undo copying something so as to...
RUFUS ON THE KEYS.
I wish that when you had your charicature drawn back at Astroworld that it looked more like this. A superb drawing by ELLIE F-P for GQ of Rufus Wainwright. If I’m lucky, that means he’s on the cover of the next issue. This was saved in my drafts from June, oops!
ART FOR JOPLIN.
Art for Joplin is an initiative by Moosylvania to hand-print a limited edition set of numbered screen prints, donating 100% of the proceeds to benefit relief for the tornado-ravaged Joplin, Missouri. I bought the print above, Somewhere Over the Rainbow by Lynn Ullman. In the superfuture, this will end up in baby OCONN’s* room, til...
FEATURED ON FPO: For Print Only
Hell yes. Thanks to our wonderful designers at Product Superior and letterpress printers at Workhorse Prints, Jennifer and John, our wedding invitations and program were featured on FPO (For Print Only) today. A lot of FPO readers complain that they showcase too many wedding invitations, obviously I’m not one of them – I think the invitation and...
JUNE IS GAY PRIDE MONTH.
Don’t you love these letterpress posters by Alabama-based Kennedy Prints!? In support of Gay Pride Month CB2 is selling these limited-edition, one-of-a-kind prints for $20. I’m just not certain to whom the spoils are going… but I love the hunter green and yellow versions. VIA CB2 limited-edition accept and be letterpress posters, our latest one...
BRANDED NOTEBOOKS.
UM, YES PLEASE. Tinkering Monkey’s created a system to make your own custom notebooks–you choose the artwork and they’ll create an authentic metal brand (like they use on cattle, criminals and slaves), and hand-brand as few as 54 notebooks for you to use as marketing materials, door prizes, whatever. Now onto tinkering ideas of what...
E-Z EGOS & EFFIGIES II
Every once in a while I get the urge to pull off an art show that takes all the time, energy, and thought I can muster; a show that will drive me to pull all-nighters, ignore bills, forget to shower, etc. – what I like to refer to as TOTAL ART IMMERSION.This urge has recently hit and...
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