2013 Calendars are Here!!

Sorry for the break in blogging! It's not that I haven't been creating illustrations & textiles like mad, but I've actually been doing the 9-5 thing since the summer, so time has slipped on by... Anyway, here is my new 2013 Tea Towel Calendar, featuring two things I miss terribly, Brooklyn and Catter - although it could represent any city. This would make a great gift for the holidays, don't you think? It is available for sale in my shop.

Erinaceous Illustration's Bay Area Debut!

I am so excited that amazing Brooklyn psych band Traveling Circle is reuiniting on July 14th to play a show in Oakland, CA. This is my first poster since moving to the area that is for local bands, so I'm super excited. The show is gonna be big - you should all come!! Click to enlarge and see what it's all about!!

Peaceable Kingdom Toile De Jouy

I recently illustrated an original, hand-drawn scene featuring extinct animals. The Wooly Mammoth, Caspian Tiger, Giant Moa, and Horned Gopher are having tea. I created a toile pattern out of the drawing, adding the Xerces Blue Butterfly, Dodo, and Labrador Duck playing amongst the trees and grass. Can't wait to have this one printed on fabric!

Some New Textiles

As I've said before, we recently moved across the country from Brooklyn, NYC to San Francisco. It has been a big change and there have been many serious hiccups preventing us from truly being settled, such as a horrible leg break for me at the start of 2012! But I really love our apartment and have been trying to make it home. Here are some new textiles I designed for our home, for blankets, curtains, pillows and other little accessories. If you're interested, check out all of my textile designs here!

DJ PreSkool at High Horse Saloon

Here's a new poster I created for DJ PreSkool's Tuesday Night DJ Gig, at High Horse in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. This one was super fun to work on. Wish I could be there!

Flower Curtain

I recently took a floral print that I had designed and turned it into a textile.

Above is the original piece...

...and here it is as a shower curtain! A flower curtain, if you will.

The Sun and the Moon

I created these two little illustrations for a project at home. I put them in embroidery hoops and am planning to hang them on either side of our bathroom window (still settling into our new apartment - the decorating part is so fun!). I think they'd also be great on pillows and tee shirts, and have so many friends with little ones on the way that a moon onesie is definitely on the project horizon!

Two New Posters!

I've only been in San Francisco for a few months, and unfortunately for me, most of the time I've spent here has been at home nursing my broken leg (ouch!). But luckily you can still draw if your leg is broken, and luckily I still have great friends and clients back in Brooklyn!

These two new posters are for DJ PreSkool, for whom I did this poster a few months back. As always, click to enlarge!

Paper Bicycle: Damask

I was recently lucky enough to travel to France, and spent a day at Versailles. I just loved Marie Antoinette's little farm - the houses were so cute! The scenery, art and furniture of Versailles were definitely an inspiration to me, especially all of the wonderful damask patterns - I have photos of the wallpaper and textiles alone! I added a sun into the pattern as a tribute to Louis the XIV, the Sun King.

Click here to see all of my Paper Bicycle patterns for this past week!

It was so much fun working with the team at Paper Bicycle this week! Chris, Lindsay and Francesca are super talented and all-around very cool people! Please check out their blog and tumblr!

Paper Bicycle: Butterfly

I have always been fascinated with mounted and framed butterflies and would love to have a pink, polka-dotted wall to display a collection of them someday. A girl can dream, can't she?

Check out more great pattern work (including mine, this week!) at Paper Bicycle!

Paper Bicycle: Nice

Today's topic is nice. Nice...hmmm...well, nice is a difficult word to define, much less illustrate...so I thought about all of the other words we use that can mean nice, and while looking through the sketchbook I was jotting them down in, I noticed that I draw a lot of happy, goofy people who would have nice hair if they were real. I kept it 2-color because my sketchbooks are usually just pen and ink. I like to think that all of the people in my pattern are nice people!

Click to enlarge, and see more great patterns, some of them mine, this week on Paper Bicycle!

Paper Bicycle: Ditzy/Calico

Today's topic is ditzy, or calico print. A ditzy print is usually floral, and is very small in scale. It also follows a more scattered design, rather than being straight up and down like a stripe or plaid. This pattern goes out to all of the unnaturally turquoise flowers found at NYC bodegas!

To see more, check out Paper Bicycle!

Paper Bicycle: Harvest

This week I'll be designing patterns to be posted on the super-cool blog, Paper Bicycle. The three designers behind it, Lindsay, Francesca and Chris, post beautiful patterns based on a topic they choose every day. So it's a great way to get your creative juices flowing by challenging yourself to follow a set topic. Very cool. Today's topic is Harvest, which made me think of what we call the "Debil Moon" in my family: a big, orange harvest moon.

Click the image to enlarge and check out Paper Bicycle's blog and tumblr for more! Check back tomorrow for the next topic and a new design.

Tuesdays at Macri Park

Here is a brand new poster for my lovely friend Lady Bree, who DJs every Tuesday night at a bar called Macri Park, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It's a nice little spot here in the neighborhood. Stop by and see her on Tuesday and you might see me too!

As always, click to enlarge!

La Otracina at Union Pool, 9/21

Here's a new poster I created for my pals La Otracina, with Endless Boogie and Rhyton. Click to enlarge!

Posters for Subplot Studios

Here are three new posters I've created for Subplot Studios. Subplot Studios is working with illustrators from all over to make show poster art available to schools and local theater companies. Their aim is to encourage kids to get involved in drama programs by offering cool art for the show posters. I worked on Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Thoroughly Modern Millie, and Our Town. Click to enlarge!

Satellite Lounge, 6.17.11

Sorry I haven't posted in so long! I have been hard at work creating textiles, pillows and all sorts of new designs to beef up the old etsy page. Hopefully it will be up and running soon! In the meantime, I created a new poster for a DJ night at Satellite Lounge in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It's a great little bar that has lots of fun pinball machines and they recently got taps! Sounds perfect for a hot summer night and I'm sure this event will be too!

American Illustration 30 - CHOSEN

I'm pleased to announce that one of my favorite posters I've ever done has been chosen to appear as part of American Illustration 30 - their 30th anniversary annual! This was also one of the best shows ever, featuring Traveling Circle, Heavy Hands and Sean Dwyer Griffin.

2 New Posters

I am so excited to have done a new poster for my pal Lady Bree, for a show at Public Assembly. This is a bigger venue so doing a poster for an even there is kind of a big deal for little old me! My good friends Heavy Hands will be playing too.

I also had the pleasure of designing a poster for Josh, who is DJing with DJ IT next friday night. I illustrated on top of an old photo from our trip to Paris years ago, and thought collage would be another fun thing to try, rather than strictly illustration, just like the moon man poster from last month.

As always, click to enlarge!

Poster for DJ Night

Here's a new poster I did - click to enlarge and get more info about Traveling Circle's own Your Pal Josh, spinning at Satellite Lounge in Brooklyn!