Fan Art

How awesome is this?



Not only does James write hilariously awful jokes, but he also told me that he was basically artistically trained by the masters! Sometimes, I love my day job.

SGC 2007 March 21-25

I'm incredibly excited to visit my old stomping grounds (Kansas City) for the 2007 Southern Graphics Printmaking Council Conference. It's a big hoopla where printmakers from all over get together and network, have panel discussions, seminars, technique demos, gallery shows, print exchanges and a big product fair. I'm going to nerd it up with my good friend Kari, and hopefully we'll aquire the knowledge and motivation we need to really move forward with our studio idea (that's the idea anyway).

Everyone who is an SGC member gets to take part in a general print exchange where you make twelve prints and get ten prints in return at random. The other two are kept for the KCAI and SGC collections. This years theme is Cartography and I was way excited because instead of doing a regular print format, all the prints will be folded into pamphlets (part of the requirments for a true print exchange is that everyone participating must create prints in the same size and format). For my print I did a simple three color screen print using my old-timey bird portrait idea, only this time I made the birds into sailors with compass roses. I used this really sweet gold ink that I've never printed with before, because Darryl from MIAD is awesome.

I'll update when I get back next Monday with pics of all the fun!

A day late... BUT

Good luck charms from Olivia Moon's Etsy Shop.

South Shore Park

Tuesday reached a balmy 68 degrees in Milwaukee so that called for some major park frolicking with my friends Morgan, her dog Canoe, Erin, and her son Eli.

Nancy Loeber

Today I came about the blog of Nancy Loeber, a printmaker, collage and book artist. I really like how delicate and versatile her stuff is. Check it out.

Hard at work

A peak into my studio, where I'm painting bird plaques for the next Art vs. Craft (July 7th 2007!).

More crazy hats from Paris fashion week.

These are from John Galliano. His show of vintage-like Parisian characters is nothing short of amazing. Check out the entire thing!

Gaultier Headpieces

I thought these fowl inspired hats were the best part about Jean Paul Gaultier's fall collection.

Photo's by style.com.

Feedsack Fabric

Love Forever has a great piece today about feedsack fabric, something that I previously knew nothing about (growing up in the suburbs without a crafty grandma around). I have a gorgeous feedsack skirt with vintage hand-made lace from rural Wisconsin creators blindhen and it is probably my most prized piece of clothing. I love this bit of American textile history, if only more companies (and consumers) today put that kind of thought into the life of a product's packaging.