we went to the fair
my notes on the renegade craft fair, which took place over the weekend:
finally, GICLEES
i got some giclee prints made! i’ve already popped them in the shop, CLICK CLICK.
they’re the first ones i’ve ever ordered of my work. i guess i’ve always been nervous about quality and having to package everything up myself (this is why i like thumbtackpress for my alice prints!). they turned out really well — they’re printed on kind of a rough stock that looks watercolorpapery, and the colors are accurate so far as i can tell.
oh yeah, if there’s something you’re interested in getting a print of that’s not listed, let me know and i’ll see what i can do.
Filed under illustration, tea painting | Tags: etsy, giclee | Comment (0)lauren & alexa woodward at the velo rouge
we have had traveling musicians, their Danes, and their vanagon around the last couple days. our old pal lauren a.k.a. linky (a gentle giant) has come through town on tour with alexa woodward. lauren plays the washboard, and alexa plays the banjo and they sing together. it is beautiful!
Filed under digital, illustration, sketchbook | Tags: alexa woodward, banjo, lauren, velo rouge, washboard | Comment (0)why does the virgin have 8 arms?
MAHARIA
esther was telling us about how in 19th century california, men from india were marrying mexican women. there were laws against brown people marrying white people*, but indian-mexican marriage was ok. they had similar material cultures (chilis, rotis, household altars, etc.) so one would think it would work out beautifully. but sometimes it didn’t, and we were picturing a terrible argument starting with “honey, why does the virgin have eight arms?”
*‘These marriages were more than a matter of individual choice, however, for the fact was that miscegenation laws prohibited marriages across racial lines in California until 1948 [<---OMG!! --ed.]. Most California county clerks saw the Punjabi men as colored, or “brown,” the word they used most often on the marriage license to describe the men’s race. Thus the women the Punjabis married also had to be perceived as “brown,” and that generally meant women of Mexican ancestry.’
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