Thursday, March 10, 2011

Inappropriate Colonial Greetings












































A couple years ago while hanging out with a friend I got to flipping through her old high school sketchbooks. It's contents crammed full of insults, penis doodles and found treasures smooshed between the pages. Mostly bugs, leaves and trash labels, albeit no less sentimental than more ordinary gals daisies I imagine. Tucked into the middle of this dirty, worn out, soda splattered book there was a fantastical word play that had taken place. All of which were insults. The vulgar kind. The sort that make you snort, re-read to reassure that's what you really read then chuckle while shaking your head pondering, who thinks of things like that? I was told later it took place on a beach in Hawaii in the wee hours of the morning, while the beach sweepers were out. This makes it all the more hysterical. Who lays on the beach at sunrise thinking up disgusting insults? I know exactly who because I'm friends with them but not all of us are blessed with the sort of folks I keep in my menagerie. That's why in the spirit of keeping friends egos tackly in place I've created illustrations to accompany my favorites. All dapperly styled after the collections name sake Colonial Squat, obviously my favorite of the bunch. The full inappropriate greetings collection will be available in 2012.

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Yays for Love!





















I had the pleasure of creating a wedding ensemble for a friend's daughter's wedding. They both have the same name, how ridiculous! They are silly cute and I wish them bushels of happiness together. Fireside Printing is guilty of the gorgeous two color letterpress shown on Crane's futura white stock.
So so pretty!

Monday, September 27, 2010

10*Shirts































My friend Hiro and his pal Takuro came up with a genius way to unite artists around the world using nothing but a basic white tee and nostalgic movie themes.  Each shirt will be customized by ten artists, a whopping hundred artists in total. I kicked off Buffalo'66 here in Georgia and am excited to see where it leads! You can get the full scoop yourself at 10-shirts.com

Monday, May 10, 2010

Orange and Apple

Both quick still life studies from my pantry series. I donated both pieces to the Joseph Sams School's 24th Annual Dinner, Dance and Auction to help raise funds to better serve children with special needs in the Fayetteville county area.

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Tomato So Juicy

Publix has huge tomato plants on display in front of the store already. My freckles are multiplying by the minute and the mighty southern sun has already branded my pale naive limbs with all the seduction and  swagger of Tennessee Williams. I can't wait for summer!

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Wild Strawberry













Strawberries, it turns out, are a hoot to paint. Smushing the thick paint down to recreate the juicy red flesh was pretty fun.

Monday, February 1, 2010

Finger Foods









While continuing my quick still life studies, no more than a handful of hours spent on each, I decided to extend my subject matter to the kitchen pantry. Grape Tomatoes & Olive are both a wee 4 by 4 inches.