80s toy explosion in color

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80s toy explosion

hello 80s childhood! hello dollies-that-go-with-a-cartoon zeitgeist, censorious and brusque speak-and-spell, snoopy ascii art on dot matrix paper, magic elfin plastic woodland toys, mary lou retton leotard, and film canisters that no modern child will recognize. click through for labels!

i may turn this into a painting or use it to practice my wacom skillz.

neil armstrong walking on my face

happy halloween! i was the moon.
all i had to do was construct a lunar lander out of felt. simple!

hmmm… maybe not so simple. the explosion on the table in my studio tells the real tale.

it comes together fairly quickly once you figure out the bottom half is an octagon and if you can emotionally accept just gluing together a mishmash of three dimensional shapes for the top half instead of following the real diagram.

bedtime stories

an illustration for a baby book shower. the fox is reading goodnight moon and the raccoon is reading frog & toad (the frog and toad series is a really great read, by the way, if you haven’t opened it up since childhood. they deal with some complex human issues–willpower, existential angst, etc.–with humor and empathy and mostly using two syllable words.)

the raccoon was also turned into some pretty sweet bookmarks:

london & paris drorings

i recently returned from a delightful trip to london and paris. i brought a moleskine sketchbook and a pentel brush pen with me:

tumblewords posters

my mushroom forest and painted desert backgrounds for tumblewords are now available as posters in the minicore studios shop!

tumblewords

hooray, tumblewords is available in the itunes store! this means i’m a video game illustrator!

tumblewords is a word game for apple-type devices from minicore studios in austin. i illustrated two of the themes, “mushroom forest” and “painted desert.” it’s actually pretty addictive, i spent several hours on it last weekend and managed, with considerable joy, to wrest 150 points out of it by finding “philistine.”

so, do step into my world and find some juicy words. i painted all that woodgrain for you!!

click here to download tumblewords at the itunes store

all of my tumblewords bits and pieces:

malaysian moon moth

my favorite kind of moon moth. coincidentally from the same neck of the woods as me!

twiggy, buggy wedding invitations

i submitted a couple designs for judgement to the minted wedding design challenge:

TWIGS

a stark, twiggy invitation perfect for an outdoor wedding in a wooded setting, featuring hand-lettered initials and a pair of flirty birds. there’s a john lennon quote at the very bottom from “grow old with me,” a song that makes me straight up bawl.

the rest of the alphabet

…and an rsvp and accommodations card.

DAMASK MEADOW

a springtime meadow-themed storybook wedding invitation featuring your favorite creepy crawly outdoor denizens in a Victorian damask pattern. heh, everything my young man hates about hanging out in nature!

PS:

minted.com

family food: malaysia

mama’s curry is the best curry. recipes here!