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!

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!

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!

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!

Brooklyn Psychfest #2!

About a year ago I created a poster for the very first Brooklyn Psychfest. Well, the time has come for another Psychfest, this time happening on my birthday! Click to enlarge, and check out the link to the event page if you'd like to go!

Thanks to Bree for the gig!

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.

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!

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!

Click to enlarge - there's a lot to see!

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!