into the woods

November 21st, 2011

my illustrator pal carrie sometimes drags me out of the house and we have a ball drawing at cafes and cackling. here are some woodsy things i got up to last time we met up.
party animals:

party animals

i got really excited about labeling my party animals in logs and ended up drawing a whole alphabet:

woodland alphabet

heh, check out my double-l ligature! i am discovering the usefulness of alternate glyphs at my design job.

sweet banana seat

October 26th, 2011

schwinn stingray krate bikes doing sweet jumps
schwinn stingray krate bikes doing awesome jumps, where awesome=freaky, rickety, kid-built, corroded plywood, bust-your-teeth-in. i wanted a banana seat bike so bad in the 80s! a friend of mine had a beautiful blue one with a white wicker flower-bedecked basket in the front. mine was a blue and yellow boys’ huffy, clearly inferior and much less magical.

i am a sculpture!

February 26th, 2011

my friend david is afraid of the internet. i made a little website for him and he is making a sculpture portrait of me in return!

i am a sculpture!

david is one of the coolest people i know. look at his shelves of little dudes.

little dudes at david's place

take a gander at his website, http://davidlubin.blogspot.com. besides sculpture, he does amazing watercolor landscapes and can spin an excellent yarn.

gnomes

December 22nd, 2010

happy holidays, everybody! at my place pretty recently, we had a tree-dressing get together (i.e., an ornament factory in which elves are paid in nog) featuring a gnome-making station. now my tree is full of gnooomes!

gnome-making station

classic gnome jolly old elf
classic gnome & a jolly old elf.

starry gnome saint lucia gnome!
starry gnome & saint lucia gnome.

you can make your own gnomes too. shrink or enlarge this template to fit your gnome heads (cedar moth balls, large bells, etc.):

gnome template

my studio

July 26th, 2010

my studio, july 2010
my studio this weekend. i have a couple tea paintings in the works.

my uncle & his pygmy chickens

July 23rd, 2010

my uncle udin & his pygmy chickens (bigger)

it seems like people are talking about chickens, chickens, chickens lately. urban chickens. building a coop, gathering eggs for the best omelets. it made me think of a weird photograph i took last time i was in malaysia. i rooted it out from my photograph boxes and made a little painting of it.

when i went to visit nenek’s house one afternoon about ten years ago, my uncle udin was there, tending to his pygmy chickens. i asked if i could take a picture of him with the chickens, and he agreed. i assumed we would be taking the picture outside by the chicken coop, but he brought a pair of the tiny little chickens inside and sat on one of nenek’s chairs for a real portrait.

we went to the fair

July 21st, 2009

my notes on the renegade craft fair, which took place over the weekend:

fascinating!

March 20th, 2009

my sister gave me a birthday fascinator!

fascinator