I made this flapper paper doll for McSweeney's The Goods
That means it will be in the two papers that carry The Goods: The San Francisco Chronicle and the Chicago Tribune. If you wanna get this cool stuff in your own local paper, then you should call em up and tell em so!! Otherwise how will they know? Also, The Goods could use your support.
Paper dolls!!
Showing posts with label fox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fox. Show all posts
Monday, March 28, 2011
Sunday, September 20, 2009
buttons! buttons!
It's that time of the year again: I'm getting all my goodies together for the Alternative Press Expo next month. That means I've got to order some new buttons, among other things, but the other things are boring. Paper and ink and plastic sleeves are not half as good as shiny new pin back buttons!
I want your opinion on these buttons, k? In the past I've just kinda picked at random whichever images I think would look good on a button, but then I end up with none of one kind of a whole bunch of another kind left over. My preference would be to have no buttons left, because they are happily living on your jacket or book bag or wherever! SO, vote for your favorites (as many as you want!), and I'll make buttons of the most popular picks. This is especially easy cause you don't even have to leave an actual comment, you can just click on this little poll-thinger!
Click click click!
Or, you know, if there's something you think would be cool as a button that ya don't see here, I'm open to suggestions.
I want your opinion on these buttons, k? In the past I've just kinda picked at random whichever images I think would look good on a button, but then I end up with none of one kind of a whole bunch of another kind left over. My preference would be to have no buttons left, because they are happily living on your jacket or book bag or wherever! SO, vote for your favorites (as many as you want!), and I'll make buttons of the most popular picks. This is especially easy cause you don't even have to leave an actual comment, you can just click on this little poll-thinger!
Click click click!
Or, you know, if there's something you think would be cool as a button that ya don't see here, I'm open to suggestions.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
those foxes!
It looks like I'll be under the avalanche of my illustration project for a while, but here's those other two fox paintings!
This little trio of foxes is going to be up for sale in my shop next week, along with some other original paintings that have been hanging out for a while...call it spring cleaning, if you will. More details on that later, so stay tuned!
This little trio of foxes is going to be up for sale in my shop next week, along with some other original paintings that have been hanging out for a while...call it spring cleaning, if you will. More details on that later, so stay tuned!
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
sketches + my movie picks
I don't have a lot of pretty shiny colored work to show this week, but I don't really think anybody does. You know why? Because THANKSGIVING! That's why! Everyone is too distracted by pies and dealing with their own crazy families to be looking at blogs, or drawing pretty stuff, or posting fancy paintings. But because I promised myself I'd keep it up, I gotta get my two posts in this week, and here's one of them. These are all sketches which are really plans for paintings, and they'll be paintings very soon. Sorry they're so messy and incomprehensible.
First of all, a triptych with these three lovely girls. If you can guess who they are I'll give you one hundred points.
And some little foxes...
And this girl and guy, who are cut into slices like that for a reason, I swear! It'll make sense when it's done. They're shy.
And now, my Thanksgiving weekend movie picks! Stuff to watch while you are recovering from a day of eating till you almost explode, and then eating some more!
Charade: The 60's, Givenchy clothes, Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant, Paris, Saul Bass titles...it's like they made a movie just for me. It's not fantastic, but it's highly watchable and very stylish. It's light hearted in nature for a mystery/thriller too, so it won't upset your tummy by making you all tense.
Nightmare Before Christmas: In kid logic, this is the perfect Thanksgiving movie because just like Thanksgiving, it takes place between two vastly more important holidays: Halloween and Christmas.
Better Off Dead: It kind of takes place at Christmas time, well some of it anyway. I know I've blabbed about it before but if your sense of humor is anywhere near similar to mine, you'll probably fall in love with it. It has a very young John Cusack, exploding faces, dancing hamburgers, skiing, Barney Rubble, aardvark suits, raisins, and all those other things that make a film great.
The Sound of Music: YEAH. So I love The Sound of Music! Yes it's a story about a nun, in Austria, and they sing on mountains while riding bikes. It's great. If you can't at least appreciate the wonderous filmmaking in this movie, apart from all the singing and nunnery, then I think your soul may be a little broken. It's just beautiful to look at.
Smokey Mountain Christmas: Although technically a made for TV movie, this one really makes or breaks the holiday season for me. They used to play it every year on USA, channel 7, at least a hundred times between October and January. It has, hold your breath, Dolly Parton as a country singer who returns to the log cabin of her youth to find some X-mas spirit. There's orphans in it! It's undeniably hokey, and there's singing in it, but me and my little sis eat it up every year. So ridiculous it's good.
Three Caballeros: It doesn't go anywhere, and it doesn't have to. I think most of the time is spent watching Donald Duck chase women and have strangely psychodelic visions of cacti and flora, but it's so beautifully art directed, who cares? And how can you beat lyrics like "Three happy chappies in snappy serapes"? You can't.
I will probably watch all of these this weekend, after I eat my Tofurky and homemade cranberry sauce. Have nice holidays everybody!
First of all, a triptych with these three lovely girls. If you can guess who they are I'll give you one hundred points.
And some little foxes...
And this girl and guy, who are cut into slices like that for a reason, I swear! It'll make sense when it's done. They're shy.
And now, my Thanksgiving weekend movie picks! Stuff to watch while you are recovering from a day of eating till you almost explode, and then eating some more!
Charade: The 60's, Givenchy clothes, Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant, Paris, Saul Bass titles...it's like they made a movie just for me. It's not fantastic, but it's highly watchable and very stylish. It's light hearted in nature for a mystery/thriller too, so it won't upset your tummy by making you all tense.
Nightmare Before Christmas: In kid logic, this is the perfect Thanksgiving movie because just like Thanksgiving, it takes place between two vastly more important holidays: Halloween and Christmas.
Better Off Dead: It kind of takes place at Christmas time, well some of it anyway. I know I've blabbed about it before but if your sense of humor is anywhere near similar to mine, you'll probably fall in love with it. It has a very young John Cusack, exploding faces, dancing hamburgers, skiing, Barney Rubble, aardvark suits, raisins, and all those other things that make a film great.
The Sound of Music: YEAH. So I love The Sound of Music! Yes it's a story about a nun, in Austria, and they sing on mountains while riding bikes. It's great. If you can't at least appreciate the wonderous filmmaking in this movie, apart from all the singing and nunnery, then I think your soul may be a little broken. It's just beautiful to look at.
Smokey Mountain Christmas: Although technically a made for TV movie, this one really makes or breaks the holiday season for me. They used to play it every year on USA, channel 7, at least a hundred times between October and January. It has, hold your breath, Dolly Parton as a country singer who returns to the log cabin of her youth to find some X-mas spirit. There's orphans in it! It's undeniably hokey, and there's singing in it, but me and my little sis eat it up every year. So ridiculous it's good.
Three Caballeros: It doesn't go anywhere, and it doesn't have to. I think most of the time is spent watching Donald Duck chase women and have strangely psychodelic visions of cacti and flora, but it's so beautifully art directed, who cares? And how can you beat lyrics like "Three happy chappies in snappy serapes"? You can't.
I will probably watch all of these this weekend, after I eat my Tofurky and homemade cranberry sauce. Have nice holidays everybody!
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
one double wide post this week + ape is coming! + trees
Ok, I was doing really good with two a week, but this week has just been toooooo crazy! So I'm just giving you one large-ish post instead. I've been getting my stuff together for APE and let me tell you something about getting organized: it's HARD, and it takes a LOT of energy. I'm in CalArts-crunchtime mode right now, with a wackadoo sleep schedule and I've been fueled mostly by big cups of tea (with the occasional soy latte for emergencies) and packets of Emergen-C. But enough about me. I know why you come here and it's not for the jibber jabber!
I made a little series of family tree paintings for these crazy, kitschy frames I found.
First, an awesome frame shaped like a house! I can't take credit for the creation of the frame, but I can take credit for filling it with art.
This frame was really, really hard to photograph. It has a shiny finish on it, but the pic makes it look super glossy, which it's not!
The little paintings are digital, and I printed them out, cut them out, and put them inside of this awesome frame. I've never seen one like it...I wish I could find more. I'd do a whole series.
I got some of these "family tree" frames, too. They were really, really horrible looking when I got them. They're made out of some awful fake pewter stuff, and they looked like something your grandma would have on top of her TV, but not like a cool old school grandma. Like a REAL grandma who likes things that are made from pewter and filled with embarrassing photos.
I turned the first one into a librarian tree, complete with Miss Lib herself, and her owl friend, a fox taking in some new fiction.
These frames are double sided, so on the back I filled the frames with pages cut from an antique book (which, in all respect to books everywhere, was an awful book and kind of deserved to be used as decoration).
Here's the actual little paintings, since they're kinda hard to see in the photograph. Taking good photos is HARD!
This tree is smaller, but it's the runaway hit so far.
On the front: a handsome, 1920's-esque family...
...on the back, cut outs from a vintage National Geographic.
And here are the subjects themselves! Sean said that they seemed to be from New England, and that they instantly implied a story to him. He asked me what the story was, but I leave that up to the viewer. I didn't have a really clear idea of who they were when I made them, I just know that I like them a whole lot.
These, along with quite a few other one of a kind framed prints, are going to be on sale at APE this weekend! If you're going to be there then you should stop by, get your button, and check them out in person. I'm really really reeeeaaaally curious to see what kind of reaction they get...they're kinda artsy, but kinda crafty, but quite character design-y. Oh yeah, and there's more pics of them on my flickr!
So, I've still got some printing to do, but I will take LOTS of pictures on my little San Francisco journey and let you all know how it goes.
See ya next week!
I made a little series of family tree paintings for these crazy, kitschy frames I found.
First, an awesome frame shaped like a house! I can't take credit for the creation of the frame, but I can take credit for filling it with art.
This frame was really, really hard to photograph. It has a shiny finish on it, but the pic makes it look super glossy, which it's not!
The little paintings are digital, and I printed them out, cut them out, and put them inside of this awesome frame. I've never seen one like it...I wish I could find more. I'd do a whole series.
I got some of these "family tree" frames, too. They were really, really horrible looking when I got them. They're made out of some awful fake pewter stuff, and they looked like something your grandma would have on top of her TV, but not like a cool old school grandma. Like a REAL grandma who likes things that are made from pewter and filled with embarrassing photos.
I turned the first one into a librarian tree, complete with Miss Lib herself, and her owl friend, a fox taking in some new fiction.
These frames are double sided, so on the back I filled the frames with pages cut from an antique book (which, in all respect to books everywhere, was an awful book and kind of deserved to be used as decoration).
Here's the actual little paintings, since they're kinda hard to see in the photograph. Taking good photos is HARD!
This tree is smaller, but it's the runaway hit so far.
On the front: a handsome, 1920's-esque family...
...on the back, cut outs from a vintage National Geographic.
And here are the subjects themselves! Sean said that they seemed to be from New England, and that they instantly implied a story to him. He asked me what the story was, but I leave that up to the viewer. I didn't have a really clear idea of who they were when I made them, I just know that I like them a whole lot.
These, along with quite a few other one of a kind framed prints, are going to be on sale at APE this weekend! If you're going to be there then you should stop by, get your button, and check them out in person. I'm really really reeeeaaaally curious to see what kind of reaction they get...they're kinda artsy, but kinda crafty, but quite character design-y. Oh yeah, and there's more pics of them on my flickr!
So, I've still got some printing to do, but I will take LOTS of pictures on my little San Francisco journey and let you all know how it goes.
See ya next week!
Thursday, October 09, 2008
Tattooed Lady
Drawings for a couple of new pieces:
The tattooed lady...
...and the Dog Face Man.
These drawings aren't entirely accurate to their subjects. The tatted lady is kinda 40's pin up styled, and as far as I know the "dog face men" never bared it all the way mine is doing. They usually wore suits, I suppose in a dignified contrast to their very hairy faces. But they were fun to draw and so far everybody who I've shown them to has a kind of mad giggling reaction to Mr. Dog Face...I guess cause he looks so smug, like "Yes I have long hair completely covering my face, and yes I'm a side show attraction...but I'm rockin' it."
While I was searching for images of bearded ladies and the like, I found The Human Marvels, which is awesome! Lots of pics of sideshow folks and little biographies about the performers. It's worth spending some time with if you're fascinated by anomalies and weirdness (which I am).
As far as Miss Librarian is concerned, it would seem that green won the vote after all! I'm about half way through her painting right now so you'll see her soon. Thanks everybody who put their two cents in!
I'm going to go pick apples this weekend and hang out in Northern California, with my dad, where it is actually FALL, and the leaves have changed color. I'm going to wear a sweater and drink tea and make apple crisp, and in commemoration of that I give you Mr. Fox:
Have a loverly weekend!
The tattooed lady...
...and the Dog Face Man.
These drawings aren't entirely accurate to their subjects. The tatted lady is kinda 40's pin up styled, and as far as I know the "dog face men" never bared it all the way mine is doing. They usually wore suits, I suppose in a dignified contrast to their very hairy faces. But they were fun to draw and so far everybody who I've shown them to has a kind of mad giggling reaction to Mr. Dog Face...I guess cause he looks so smug, like "Yes I have long hair completely covering my face, and yes I'm a side show attraction...but I'm rockin' it."
While I was searching for images of bearded ladies and the like, I found The Human Marvels, which is awesome! Lots of pics of sideshow folks and little biographies about the performers. It's worth spending some time with if you're fascinated by anomalies and weirdness (which I am).
As far as Miss Librarian is concerned, it would seem that green won the vote after all! I'm about half way through her painting right now so you'll see her soon. Thanks everybody who put their two cents in!
I'm going to go pick apples this weekend and hang out in Northern California, with my dad, where it is actually FALL, and the leaves have changed color. I'm going to wear a sweater and drink tea and make apple crisp, and in commemoration of that I give you Mr. Fox:
Have a loverly weekend!
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