ghost birthday party

this is for a picture book i’m thinking of writing. the picture is based on the time i electrocuted myself on my second birthday. my mom says she found me awhile later behind a door, talking to ghosts.

here is a ghost who has eaten some birthday yummies:

octopus love

just in the nick of time for valentine’s day!

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i really must get better about making seasonal things. everybody else is so much more on the ball than i am.

holiday cards

my birds came in!

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i think they turned out really well. they’re an interesting size but fit in a business size envelope so you don’t have to worry about weird postage.

sunset

sometimes i have to remind myself of things. like, skies don’t have to be blue. it’s a hard habit to break! also, people can be green or purple. meg hunt is very good at remembering those things. take a look at her work if you haven’t seen it already! delightful patterns and colors.

i might have to sit on this picture awhile, it’s a bit late in the season to make postcards (fall on the wane!) maybe next summer in time for september-october-november, i’ll print up some promos and a few to sell.

there used to be words on the ribbon, but i decided i liked it without. what do you think?

cards, cards, cards!

i don’t remember if i mentioned it, but i have some goccoed cards for sale at the museum of craft and folk art store in san francisco! so if you’re local, check them out. it’s a sweet little store full of handmade things just across from the jewish museum (you know, in that enormous intimidating upended black cube downtown). so if you go to the sendak show, pop on over. if you aren’t local, i’m selling the cards in sets of three from my etsy store. there are only 2 sets of the foxes, though, because the museum ran off with most of them. there are plenty of elephants and owls, though. click click click on the pictures below to see the listings.

the museum store is making an etsy page and needed a photo of the fox card, so i took one outside and did a glamorous garden foto shoot. i sent them the mossy one.

fox on moss

fox and daisy

fox on foxglove

fox on pot

beautiful! beautiful, dahling! you’re a fox!

brush pen

i’ve been at the family compound the last several days without my usual art supplies, so i’ve been drawing with a pentel brush pen. usually i hate brush pens, but i’ve actually been having fun with the darned thing!

more birches. i will probably try coloring this one sur l’ordinateur.

gentlemen, along with bears and screenprinted bicycles, are in the air. here are their accoutrements. while looking for pictures of macassar oil bottles (for keeping the gentleman’s hair well-groomed), i found out that there is a thing called privy excavation. basically, there are these dudes that find old outhouse holes and dig them out. i didn’t know people put anything down there but your standard numbers one and two, but apparently they were used for trash chutes as well. so these guys that excavate them have been finding dolls that girls’ evil brothers threw in the toilet and hyatt’s infallible life balsam and hair oil bottles.

this is kind of a strange one, and will probably make more sense if i color it in. i was picturing it as something like “The Lady of the House Returns to Her Cats After a Long Antipodean Journey.” i stole her fox fur from this photo of a 20s sydney inmate. there is also a tin ceiling, a fainting couch, and a picture rail.

i think mama took this picture in kyoto. some of the flavors in katakana read: ba ni ra (vanilla), ra ben da (lavender), ro su to pea na tsu (roast peanut), me ron (melon), mee ru ku (milk), and ba na na.i thought it might make a nice print. could be satisfying to use a bajillion different colors.

my flickr page has all these biggerer.

winter approacheth

these birdies are letting each other know that it’s time to get outta dodge. i loved painting that ribbon! it’s not actually red, it’s brown madder. i’ll holiday cardify them in the next week or so — 4×9″ flat cards with envelopes! neat, eh??

gocco feature!

i’m one of the 13 artists featured in this gocco article & giveaway on sharesomecandy. check it out, lots of studios to snoop in! i’ve actually stalked many of these people’s etsy shops over the last couple years (hee hee, just keepin’ tabs on the competition). i’m so excited to be included with them! i wish we all lived in the same city so we could be a secret treehouse gocco-hoarding club.

depression sisters homesteading

tea-ed and colored! based on the whinery family of pietown, new mexico.

none of my grandpeoples lived in america ever. they were kicking cans in various other locales during the great depression. if you wanna tell me a grandparent depression story, please do!

blackberry baby