tikis

these little dudes were a commission. i’m especially fond of the squatty one on the upper right, the standing easter island-headed guy, and the sassy ones in the skirts.

i am a sculpture!

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!

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

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

sweet schwinn fastback

love that banana seat and awesome gear shifter.

i saw a schwinn jaguar while out to brunch this morning:

bicycle postcards

these postcards are now in my etsy shop! they’re reproductions of a set of original ink/watercolor bicycle drawings on tea-soaked paper. i picked them because i thought they were particularly lovely specimens of bikehood: the pashley mailstar, my favorite, is used to deliver mail in england; the public d3 is made locally here in san francisco, and i see them often coasting picturesquely on the walkway by ocean beach; my friend esther worked for a while making mission bicycle co. bikes; and, yes, the haley model 1 is a trike and not actually a bicycle — but it is quite adorable!

good night!

goodbye, nighttime stories! it’s packed up and sent on its way to the brooklyn art library. soon it will be on tour. here it is minutes before mailing:

I’ve added a full nighttime stories gallery to stellarbaby.com under This & That.

nighttime creatures

more from the nighttime stories sketchbook.

patient fox and time-lapsed stars.

out near the pedernales river in austin, texas!

from my favorite episode in David Attenborough’s Life of Mammals — the insect eaters.
hedgehogs are adorable. and the grunting! such grunting.

arctic nighttime

some more nighttime stories for my sketchbook project! it turns out that the aurora borealis is really pleasant to draw in prismacolor pencils on dark paper.

i would do this if i were an arctic fox.

arctic denizens: the aurora, snowy owl, arctic fox, arctic hare, musk ox, polar bear, cute tiny baby seal.

the moon & planets beaming down at the aurora borealis.

gnomes

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!

 
classic gnome & a jolly old elf.

 
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.):

bicycles

Ink and watercolor bicycle tea paintings! For sale tonight at the Mission Bicycle Company during the Mission Holiday Block Party. They’re gonna be $50 each unframed. Check out the Pashley Mailstar, English postmen use it to deliver the mail!

new prints available

thumbtackpress.com has updated their website and also added a bunch of my tea paintings (in addition to my alice in wonderland pair) for sale as prints!

^^click image to go to my thumbtack page!

thumbtack press makes giclee prints on heavy white stock. i’ve always been really happy with the quality of their work. their shipping is also fabulous, no crinkled paper rolled up in mashed tubes!