2011 Tea Towel Calendar!

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The holidays start a little early for those of us who make our own cards, wrapping paper, and, well, gifts (my fingers are a little numb from knitting so much! hahaha)...but I have always wanted to make a calendar that displayed the whole year on one big sheet - and this year I've finally done it!

This is my 2011 zeppelin calendar, which has been printed on a lovely linen-cotton canvas as a tea towel. I am very excited to get these in the mail - I ordered a test version and it looks great! I am going to sew them up and embroider the edges, hopefully in time to sell a few by the holidays, or at least to give away as gifts to friends and family.

Recent Inspirations

Its pretty obvious that I love a pattern, and I've been designing textiles to go into my illustrations since I first started drawing - you can see them in almost all of my images. I decided it was time to start having them actually printed as fabrics, since I also love crafting things like pillows and other little gift items.

Awesome website Spoonflower lets you upload your designs and look at them in a variety of different repeats - so cool! I ordered a batch of test swatches for these images in different fabrics - can't wait to get them in the mail! I'll definitely post an update once I use one for something! I think I'm definitely going to make a duvet cover with the fabric version of the top image...

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Little Tree

I was recently contacted by a new website to do some "background" images for their users' profile pages, so I came up with this little tree! I will post an update when it launches, but record collectors, keep your eyes and ears open for it!

Sweet New Poster

Here's a new poster I did for Lady Bree! Sky Parade, Bad Girlfriend and Telltale, live at Bruar Falls in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on Sunday, 10•10•10. Click to enlarge to see all the details!

Thanks for the gig, Bree!

Victorian People

A few months ago, I was asked to make a poster for anyone to download for free on illustration pages. You can still go to the site and print yours today!

But while designing the poster, I wanted to do more with the fun, happy crowd than just have them in the shadows of the circus spotlights, so here they are, smiling and in awe of the circus in front of and above them! I did this print in 6 different color combinations and will hopefully be producing it in different forms (prints, fabric, mailers, etc.) once I find the time...please click them to enlarge!!

Traveling Circle - Handmade House!

The wonderful and amazing Traveling Circle is going to be releasing their first record very very soon, and I was thrilled to be able to do the artwork for it. I am so excited to see what it will look like once its manufactured. It will be produced by Nasoni Records, out of Berlin, Germany and released on CD and Vinyl. Hooray!

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family portraits

to celebrate a certain loved one's birthday this weekend, i made us all into root vegetables. here are josh as a fantastic carrot, me as a rad radish, and our cat, catter, the splendid turnip!

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Stockholm

i was given an opportunity to create a poster for a night in stockholm, sweden called 99th floor. here's the result!

Cherry Blossom Clinic Logo

here is a new logo i've created for the awesome terre t from wfmu's cherry blossom clinic. she's gonna put a 2-color version on some sweet tee shirts and tote bags that go out to the lucky acts that play on her show!

Brooklyn Psych Fest!!!!

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Here's a new one for the Brooklyn Psych Fest happening on 2/28 at Glasslands - so many amazing bands are playing I can't wait! Thanks Bree for charging me with the job - I had a lot of fun!

It's going to be a trip!
Glasslands- 289 Kent Ave btw 1st and Grand St
Williamsburg (JMZ to Marcy, L to Bedford)

Zebulon Poster for 2/11

zebulon is one of my very favorite bars in nyc...so i am super thrilled to have gotten to make a poster for some of my very favorite bands and djs, all playing there on february 11th: heavy hands, traveling circle and sean dwyer griffin (click on band names to check out their music, and click the image to enlarge!)

Seahorse Illustration

This is an illustration I did for a custom-designed skateboard...the whole image filled up the deck. I'll post pictures of the skateboard soon!

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New Poster for a Great Show!

Here is a new poster for my good friends Sorceress, Whooping Crane and La Otracina at Bar Matchless in Greenpoint. (It is also my birthday party! Yeah!!!!