Heather Reinhardt

Flowery sewn shirts!

2012-02-02T10:15:00.000-08:00

Here's an exciting development! These are three shirts that I made for the christmas Market Collective. They are each completely one of a kind. I randomly printed the pattern on the shirts, in a different location and formation on each one. Then I chose some floral fabric that I thought would go well, cut out some individual flowers and then sewed them on! Lots of fun!

Two of the above shirts have sold already, but I've got some more done up! Fun!

Poutine Poster

2012-01-13T11:36:00.000-08:00

Wow! It's been a while since I've posted something! Eesh! Lots of new stuff to show though, so here we go!

Here's a poster I did for Sid and her band's 5 day tour in Ontario. POUTINE!!! I loved the absolute creative freedom I was given! And I think this just may be the first time I have EVER done something using the classic black white and red colour combo. I think I may be using these colours again! Who would have thought! :)

MUMBLE TIKES!!!

2011-11-03T11:25:00.000-07:00

Here's an extremely exciting development for Mumble Tease! A new line of KIDS CLOTHING!!! So far I've only got the two designs, but we'll see how these go at some upcoming markets, and if things go as well as I think they might, look out for lots of kiddies stuff in the future. Such cuteness!

Monsters with Chika!

2011-10-31T23:15:00.000-07:00

These are some collaborative paintings I did with my friend Chika for a group show at The Untitled Arts Society called Ampersand 3. All the pieces in the show were done collaboratively.

I've shown here the paintings, but also some of the sketches that the paintings were based off of. The drawings themselves were done by both of us, with each of us beginning a sketch, and then switching books after random amounts of time until we agreed that they were done. We sketched 20 or so monsters and then chose our favourite six to actually use for the paintings. Which we have even sold already! Neat!

Beekeeper Shirts

2011-10-17T18:45:00.000-07:00

These are some shirts I designed and printed for the band Beekeeper, who are playing a show at the Palamino in Calgary, next Thursday, October the 27th. I quite like how this one turned out! Go check out the show and buy a shirt!

A large collaboration with Chika!

2011-10-11T17:47:00.000-07:00

This is a collaborative painting I did with my dear friend Chika!! We painted the address on her neighbor's garage door. And now they are the envy of the block!

2011-09-23T16:31:00.000-07:00

I did some custom pieces for a couple of ladies who saw my work at a festival this summer and wanted different colour combinations and different quotes.

Scene and Heard

2011-09-22T15:30:00.000-07:00

Look! My first shirts printed in four colours on my lovely new four colour printing press dealie!!! This is very exciting! They are for a club at the university that lets students know about arts events around Calgary and provides discounted tickets. It was a great chance to test out the new equipment! I think they turned out pretty well...

And then below are the logo and some variations on it that I provided to go along with the new shirts!

I like small things!

2011-09-07T14:55:00.000-07:00

I got myself yet another sketchbook! This time it's a really little, really cute one! When closed it measures 4.25 by 6 inches. Here are the first few exciting things to come out of it!

Because I haven't painted in a while...

2011-08-30T20:33:00.000-07:00

I've been sketchin!

2011-08-22T12:46:00.000-07:00

My first attempt at four color silk-screening!

2011-08-05T14:44:00.000-07:00

This is a very very exciting post indeed! For my birthday this year, I was given probably the most wonderful gift I've ever gotten! A FOUR COLOR SILK SCREEN PRESS!!!!! And now, after a couple of months of looking at it and wondering how the heck to use it, I have finally made my very first prints!

This one was done on paper with some inks I've never used before, and I definitely need to work out some kinks, but wow am I excited! I can't wait to try it out on fabric! Some pretty sweet four color Mumble Tease creations are in the works!!!

A third shirt design for Sidney York

2011-06-30T14:45:00.000-07:00

This is the third design I did for Sidney York. I was at her show a couple of weeks ago out in Canmore for what was the best show I've been at in a while. It was in a great venue called The Glue Factory which is above the White Horse Cafe. If you're in Canmore ever, check it out!

I like drawing and coloring...

2011-06-30T14:30:00.000-07:00

Here's some more sketches! The last one is done with some pencil crayons that my mom found at my grandmother's house. They must be at least 40 years old, and came in the awesome retro box and were probably the smoothest pencil crayons I've ever used! The colour went on the paper so nice and creamily! Anyways... that's enough about that...

Monkey Unicorn Pullovers

2011-06-07T18:09:00.000-07:00

These are some experimental sweaters I've recently done. I had a great time using the new fabrics I got at a sale a while ago. There's a church near me that has a yearly fabric sale where all the members bring in fabric they no longer want, and all proceeds go to Grandmothers in Africa. There's a whole basement full of fabric with lots of old ridiculous things that you wouldn't be able to find in a store. And great bargains!!

Anyways, to make these one of a kind sweaters, I first silk-screened the silly creature onto the plain fabric, then sewed together the plain and complementary patterned fabric, and then sewed that onto the sweater itself. Time consuming. I really like how they turned out though!

I want to adopt one for myself, but I'm having trouble deciding which one I like the best. I kind of want them all...

Sidney York: Spirit of Competition Poster

2011-06-01T12:09:00.000-07:00

This is the poster I did up for Sidney York's upcoming tour. She's the singer songwriter I did the shirts for, and for whom my sister sings and plays her oboe. Neat!

Oh yes, the CD release party is tomorrow night! Come out!

And more sketches

2011-05-24T12:07:00.000-07:00

New Mumble Tease Designs in all their colorful glory!!

2011-05-13T15:13:00.000-07:00

OK! So here's the four new designs that I've printed, shown on all their various shirt/color combinations. The v-necks are an exciting new addition!! There's a fifth one that's exclusively for sweaters at this point that I'm still working on! I'm excited!

More Sketches

2011-05-11T13:55:00.000-07:00

Just some more silly sketches from my silly sketchbook!

Weekly Sketch Challenge with Chika Part 1: Spring

2011-05-03T14:24:00.000-07:00

Soooo, a few weeks ago Chika and I decided to start a weekly sketch challenge where we would choose a theme that related to something that happened to one of us in the past week, and try and use new techniques or media that we wouldn't typically "sketch" with.

It is so far proving more difficult to keep this as a weekly exercise than we had anticipated! There's just not enough time!!!

Anyways, this one's just a spring-inspired pattern that I came up with and painted using gouache.

NEW SHIRTS NEW SHIRTS NEW SHIRTS!!!

2011-04-29T00:31:00.000-07:00

Oh boy and I am so excited!!! These are a few of the new designs I've just finished printing for a sale me and Mumble Tease will be at this weekend.

The top one is a collaboration I've been working on with another local designer, Stellar Hoods, who make these neat hood/scarf things. The project is for the Canadian Cancer Society with a portion of the proceeds being donated to the organization.

And the other designs are just silly Mumble Tease goodness!! And I've got a few more designs printed and ready to go as well and other colour combinations, but I'll be posting pictures of them later. If you want to see them sooner, come out to Make It at the Chinese Cultural Centre in Calgary this weekend. Woohoo!!

Sketches

2011-04-06T16:19:00.000-07:00

Sketchy Collab with Chika!

2011-04-04T15:55:00.000-07:00

Sometimes Chika and I meet up at a bar and do collaborative sketches where we each start something in our own sketchbooks, and then at random intervals trade and continue where the other person has left off. It's fun to see what someone else decides to do with your drawing!

And yet some more quotes on fabric!

2011-03-28T19:49:00.000-07:00

I was selling shirts at the Market Collective this weekend and made up some more quotes on fabric to sell as well.

Oh! And I'm going to be selling shirts and things the last weekend of April at the Chinese Cultural Centre for Make It! It's a three-day sale that comes to Calgary twice a year, featuring some cool hand-made stuff.

I'll be doing up some new designs and getting in some new sweaters and v-necks, which I'm very excited about! It's going to be a busy month!!

Here's some sketches old and new, that I'd like to share with you!

2011-03-16T15:38:00.000-07:00

Yup, here's a bunch of sketches from my 8.5x11 inch sketchbook that I've never gotten around to scanning. Some of them are really old, like a couple of years...

T-shirts for Sidney York

2011-02-28T14:41:00.000-08:00

I recently did a rather large order (465 shirts! WOW!) for a friend who's got a new album and will be touring across Canada in the spring (May I think...) to promote it. Her name is SIDNEY YORK and you should visit her website and try and check out one of her upcoming shows and buy a shirt! (My sister Sheryl is even playing her oboe and singing at the shows! So come out and heckle the oboe player!!! Heeheehee...)

It's the largest print run I've ever done, and although I'm only 2/3 of the way through, it went really well! I'll be printing a third design on another 200 blue shirts some time in the nearish future! Exciting!

Logo: Meaningful Work Project

2011-02-23T15:35:00.000-08:00

This is a logo project I did for Miss Alla Guelber who is the founder and director of the Meaningful Work Project. It sounds like a pretty neat project she's starting up and if you're at all curious, please check out her website at www.meaningfulworkproject.ca.

The last image is a banner I put together for the website.

Sketchbook Project 2011

2011-02-11T16:00:00.001-08:00

Sooooo, this is a pretty neat project I participated in. There were something like 28000 Moleskin sketchbooks sent out and each person fills it in, using one of the themes as inspiration, and mails it back to the Brooklyn Art Library. They archive them and put them online, send them on a tour that visits libraries in major US cities, and then keep them in the Brooklyn Art Library. Here's a link to their website:

http://www.arthousecoop.com/projects/sketchbookproject

It was interesting sketching based on a theme. The theme I chose was "Science Project Gone Wrong," and as you can see, I used it as a very loose general idea, with some things really having absolutely no relation to it at all... Oh well. It was fun though. I even rebound the book with heavier paper so that I could paint in it, and included a few fold outs! Neat!

More Quotes

2011-01-06T14:59:00.000-08:00

I was selling shirts and art and cards at the Market Collective at the beginning of December, and made up three new quotes on fabric. I even sold two of them! And I have a stack of wood waiting to be wrapped in fabric and several pieces of fabric that are ready to go. Lots to do!

Oh man, sewing on the flower in the first one was pretty tricky. I'm really impressed with how it turned out. If you look closely, that white line around the edge is the thread. Done on a machine. Very slowly and carefully....

BLOOD!!!

2011-01-06T14:51:00.000-08:00

Ok, wow has it been a while since I've posted something. It's certainly not that I haven't been doing things!!! This is an illustration I did for a local author for whom I did cover art for a few years ago. It's the title for a series of short stories she's posting online. The letters are supposed to look like they're alive and the heart in the D is pumping blood through the veins. It was neat to do a more rendered kind of painting. It's been a while...

HOODIES!!!!

2010-11-12T11:56:00.000-08:00

Mumble Tease now has some hoodies!!!!! I'm very excited about these lovely sweaters. They turned out really really well! And I've even printed them in two different colour combinations! Okay, so I've actually had these printed for quite a while, but man has it taken a long time to get some pictures taken and all that jazz!

Cuddles are awesome! Is there a better way to spend a chilly morning than cuddling? I don't think so.... Except maybe snowboarding... I have to give credit to my dear friend Sean-o for coming up with the text and for being an inspiration for the design. What a cute and cuddly group of snakes!!!

And of course, they are for sale on mumble tease's etsy shop: www.mumbletease.etsy.com

New Sketches

2010-11-05T16:06:00.001-07:00

Just some more experiments in ye olde sketchbooke! I've been trying out using fabrics as elements in my paintings. Lots more to come on that front!

More Quotes on Fabric Art Dealies

2010-10-22T15:47:00.001-07:00

Here's a couple more experiments using silk-screened patterns and sewn on elements to capture the mood of some inspirational quotes. Fun stuff. It's fabric stretched over a 8x12 inch piece of 3/4 inch plywood. I can see many directions to take this kind of thing. So much to do, so little time....

Waterlution Shirt Design

2010-10-04T14:50:00.000-07:00

This is a t-shirt design I did for an organization called Waterlution that's putting on a 3-day "Water Innovation Lab" that gives "tomorrow’s leaders, the insights, tools, and connections to make a difference in protecting your community’s water resources." (www.waterlution.org)

I was originally contacted about the possibility of printing the shirts as well, but wasn't able to, due to the size of the order and the need for two colours. I print more than one colour on some of my shirts, but it only really works in small quantities and when the different colours don't need to be exact in their placement.

I was relieved when they just asked me for designs as I think 300 shirts would have been a few too many for me to handle happily...

My Head Is Filled With Song: Part III

2010-09-27T13:02:00.000-07:00

Here's the third piece for a series I'm working on called "My Head Is Filled With Song."

This one is for Wilco's "The Late Greats." Man, what a good song. My only complaint is that it's not long enough! And what awesome lyrics: "The best song never gets sung, the best laugh never leaves your lungs, it's so good you won't ever know, and never hear it on the radio."

I've noticed that I almost always create images that have a light background and dark foregrounds, so for this one I wanted to try switching it up and have a dark background with light foreground objects. Fun stuff.

Reprints of old designs

2010-09-15T16:34:00.000-07:00

There's been lots of interest in some of my old designs that I only have printed on women's cotton shirts, so I'm reprinting them on unisex cotton and women's tri-blend shirts!

I really really like how the colours turned out on these ones! I must say, it's hard not to take one of each design and colour for myself! Restraint Heather, RESTRAINT!

Just a reminder, all the shirts are for sale at www.mumbletease.etsy.com

Advertising Illustration for Gaz Metro

2010-09-14T13:28:00.000-07:00

This is an advertising illustration I did for a natural gas company from Quebec. The client wanted to use the illustration for a number of different applications, so to accommodate both vertical and horizontal formats, I created a square that can be cropped accordingly.

To create a textured look I did the drawing using China Marker on heavy watercolour paper. In order to get clear detail in the finer areas of pattern I had to make the drawing very large. 40x40 inches in fact! WOW! Definitely the largest drawing I've done.

This project was a great learning experience for me and I'm really grateful to the ladies at Sid Lee for giving me the chance to work with them on it!

I made a photo album!

2010-08-17T16:01:00.000-07:00

For my sister's birthday I made a photo album of the trip we went on in 2009. I learned how to do what's called coptic binding and had a lot of fun sewing the book together and making the covers and then arranging and gluing in the pictures (over 300 of them!). These are just a few of the spreads that I liked the most.

Her birthday is in April and I just gave it to her a couple of weeks ago, so you can gauge from that how much longer it took than I thought it would... I really am horrible at estimating the time involved for some projects...

Doodles

2010-08-13T13:26:00.001-07:00

Wow! It's been an awesome (except for the weather) and super busy summer! I've had a couple of jobs come up, the latest being an illustration for an ad agency in Montreal! Oh boy! I'll be posting pictures of that when the project is done. Exciting!

But, for now, here's some random pages from my sketchbook I've been meaning to post for a while now.

Alphabet at Ampersand; A Collaboration with CHIKA!!!

2010-08-05T11:11:00.000-07:00

My dear friend Miss Chika Ando and I just finished a collaborative piece that will be in the show Ampersand 2, at the Untitled Art Society Main Gallery (4th Floor, 319 - 10 Ave SW, Back Alley Entrance, Calgary).

We created an alphabet of adjectives that can be used to describe people. For each letter we chose a word that Chika was unfamiliar with and then made up a sentence and drew a picture illustrating the sentence. This is one of our favourites!

The show is on for three days. Today and Friday from 12-4, and on Saturday there's a reception party with the artists in attendance from 7-11pm. Come on out and see our lovely alphabet! And all the other neat collaborations!

Father's Day Card

2010-07-12T14:56:00.000-07:00

Here's the front and inside of the card I made my Dad for father's day. Cute!

New Fabric Art - Come see them (and me!) at Market Collective this weekend!

2010-06-17T16:43:00.000-07:00

This is a series of pieces I've just finished. They are 8x8 pieces of wood that I've covered with fabric. Each one features a different quote and has silk-screened and sewn elements.

They will be down at the MARKET COLLECTIVE in Kensington with me and my Mumble Tease t-shirts this Saturday and Sunday, the 19th and 20th of June! (Old Ant Hill Building, 148 10th St NW, Sat: 10-6 Sun: 11-5)

Shirts for A. B. C.

2010-06-02T13:45:00.000-07:00

I just finished up a project making shirts and bags for a friend who has an urban beekeeping company. Her company is called Apiaries and Bees for Communities, or A.B.C. for short. Very neat stuff. It was really inspirational to talk to her and hear about her business and how she's found something she's passionate about and is just going for it! Her website is www.backyardbees.ca if you're curious!

And I'm really happy to have been able to help her out with the shirts! I made up the designs and printed them using cut-out stencils. So much fun! It's so neat to see your creations printed on cloth! I love it!

Silly new sketches

2010-05-18T00:34:00.000-07:00

A page from my sketchbook. Just for fun. I started out with pencil crayons and made general shapes and filled them in with patterns. Then I used my imagination and a pen to create little creatures from the shapes. Imagining is fun!

FABRICS!

2010-05-14T14:24:00.001-07:00

I love fabrics and have been using them more and more in my work and have started to amass quite a collection. I went to an annual sale at Woodcliff United Church and walked away with two HUGE bags of fabric for a ridiculously good price. All the fabric is donated by people who have leftovers lying in their basements and then all the proceeds go to Grandmothers in Africa. Very neat. And check out all the awesome fabric I picked up! I can't wait to use it in paintings, and on shirts and for random sewing projects! YAY!

Mommy's Day Card

2010-05-08T14:45:00.000-07:00

My mom has been having some health problems and when I remembered yesterday that mother's day was coming up and I had failed to buy her any type of present, I was madly trying to think of some meaningful gift I could get her last minute, and thought about what she might want. I think the thing that she would want the most would be the magical ailment fixing rubber hammer. Unfortunately scientists haven't figured that one out yet... And so I figured my love and support and stuff in the form of a hug was as good a substitute as you could find...

Promotional Piece

2010-04-29T22:09:00.000-07:00

This is a promotional piece I'm printing in postcard from and sending out to people who will see it, like it, and then hire me! That's the general idea anyways...

My goal is to send one out every fours months-ish. Each one will feature a quote that I find interesting or inspirational and my visual interpretation of the quote. Fun stuff!

Oh yes, and I thought it would be neat to show some process on this one.

I start out with a very rough sketch just to get ideas out. Yup. Pretty amazing drawing skills displayed on the first sketch. Then I do a nice line drawing in pen. Which I then scan and add colours to and play around with in photoshop to get some idea of what I want to do.

In the colour comp for this one, there's a bit too much going on and not enough contrast, so I fixed these things for the actual final painted version which is acrylics for the background, fabric, and gouache for the "drawn" part. And that, is how it's done!

New Printed Designs

2010-04-29T21:52:00.000-07:00

Ooooo! And here are some close-ups of one of my favourites! Oh boy!

Mumble Tease - NEW SHIRTS!!!

2010-04-29T21:44:00.001-07:00

Wow!! There's so much going on I just haven't had time to do any new posts! This is the most exciting bit! I've got five new designs printed and online for sale at:

http://www.etsy.com/shop/mumbletease

I could write paragraphs and paragraphs about them and how excited I am, but it would take too long. I have written lots of things on the shop, a highlight (from my point of view) being the little descriptions of each design listed with each shirt. Read them! They're funny. At least I think so.

Ummmm, yup. That's about it for those. Oh and BUY ONE!!!!!!

Cards!

2010-04-14T15:51:00.000-07:00

Here's a couple of cards I did a while ago that I forgot to post. The bottom one is a birthday card I gave to my boyfriend, and the top one is a commissioned card I did. I think there was an inside joke that I was not in on. I'm sure the person receiving it would have gotten it though...

I like doing cards on print-making paper and just doing a line drawing with pens, colouring it in with pencil crayons and sometimes using thread to make borders and stuff.

Mumble Tease - Process Photos

2010-04-07T10:27:00.001-07:00

Wow! I can't believe it's been a month since last posting! That's crazy! I've been locked away in my basement printing a new batch of shirts for mumble tease. It's very exciting! These are some photos of what my work space looks like at the moment. I've worked out a pretty good system with a big table to print on and space to hang things to dry. Exciting stuff! The shirts will be for sale soon! Hooray!

Very interesting....

2010-03-05T14:07:00.000-08:00

I was doing some experimenting putting different elements together in photoshop and this is something I came up with using a pen drawing from my sketchbook, a painted background and scanned fabrics to fill in the spaces. I think I like it.

My head is filled with song: Part 2

2010-02-26T15:28:00.001-08:00

SMASHING PUMPKINS: 1979

Eesh. Posting every week is tricky. Okay, so here's the second one of the series I'm working on. Man! I love this song! Who doesn't! So good to drive to! Sooooo, yeah. I experimented a bit with using fabrics as a main element and gluing stuff on and whatnot. It's colourful that's for sure.... Keep on the lookout for another in the next couple of weeks!

My head is filled with song: Part 1

2010-02-10T15:12:00.000-08:00

FLEET FOXES: Tiger Mountain Peasant Song

I've recently been working for a painting company (yes, houses, walls, solid colours...) to generate some income, and have been finding it tricky to make time anything creative. To get things flowing again, I've started a project for myself. Every two weeks, I'm going to try and make an album sized illustration based upon a song that I really like or has affected me in some way. The first one is inspired by the Fleet Foxes' "Tiger Mountain Peasant Song." It's a neat image, but I think it could reflect the song a bit more. I don't think the illustration quite has the same feeling as the song does... I will do better on the next one!!! AHA!!!

Some flowery patterns

2010-02-03T19:28:00.000-08:00

Here's a couple of patterns I made up a while ago from a pen and ink drawing... Just for fun!

New shirt design ideas!!!!

2010-01-26T23:23:00.000-08:00

Ok... I've been itching to do up some more t-shirts, and here's some designs I've come up with! The last one says Gadzooks! and while I like the idea of splitting it into three rows I'm wondering if it's too confusing that way, or if it really matters if it can be read easily.... So I was thinking maybe just two rows. Thoughts?

These are of course just the black and whites which help me figure out how it my ideas will work as stencils with no floating white spaces and whatnot. Once I cut out the stencils and go to silk-screen them they will be all colourful and much more exciting!

Now all I have to do is order me some shirts. Oh yes, and figure out ways to actually sell them.... sigh...

from a foggy frosty day

2010-01-23T21:14:00.000-08:00

It was a very foggy day and when I left the house I noticed how lovely and frosty the pine tree out front was and took a few pictures of it. SO PRETTY!!! It is my goal to post something at least every week soooooo... yeah. Here goes.

The light of the moon!

2010-01-13T11:04:00.000-08:00

As in Edward Lear's poem, here are the owl and the pussycat going to sea in their beautiful pea-green boat.

What happens to leftover paint.

2010-01-11T19:41:00.001-08:00

Some experiments in me sketchbook!

Sketchy sketchy sketchy

2010-01-11T16:59:00.000-08:00

Oh wow! It's been a while! Eesh! So..... here's a few sketchbook pages.

Boo!

2009-11-02T23:57:00.000-08:00

It is (was) Halloween time and this year I seem to have had cyclops' on the brain! Behold! A cyclops pumpkin and sketches for an alphabet made entirely of wonderful one-eyed monsters!!!

Illustration Friday - Frozen

2009-10-20T16:49:00.000-07:00

A silly painting inspired by perhaps my favourite thing to eat. ICE CREAM!!!!!!!!

Sketchy!

2009-10-18T22:00:00.001-07:00

Just a couple of neat pages from my sketchbook.

Chicken and Fish

2009-10-18T21:33:00.000-07:00

This is just an experiment based on a silly drawing from my sketchbook. It's painted with gouache. I kind of forgot about it. I suspect it's something I will be using more often in the future!

Mumble Tease

2009-10-14T14:04:00.000-07:00

So this is the name and logo I have finally some up with for the t-shirts that I've been printing in my basement and selling to wonderful people who think the shirts are also wonderful.

These are the tags I made for the t-shirts I'm selling at a local boutique. Each shirt comes with two tags, a small one with a silly drawing on the front and the logo on the back, and then a large one with a blurb about the shirts on the front and the size on the back. FUN!!!

I've never painted on a road before...

2009-10-14T13:44:00.000-07:00

This was a volunteer project I did for the community I live in. They are celebrating 50 years as a community. I painted the white outline on the road, and then kids in the neighborhood painted it in. They were lots of them and they were very speedy and I had trouble keeping up!

Collaboration with Chika!

2009-10-14T12:50:00.001-07:00

Chika and I were part of the group show "Ampersand" at the Art Life Gallery in Calgary in August. The show featured 14 different pieces, all of which were done collaboratively. It was a blast! What you are seeing here was actually our second attempt at it. The other side of the board, which is about 2 by 4 feet, has our first attempt on it, which we abandoned after deciding we didn't really like the direction it was going... The piece was done without any planning, and I must admit partly under the influnece of delicious rum. Good times!!!

More T-shirts!

2009-09-29T21:37:00.000-07:00

Yikes! I'm bad at keeping up with these things. I'm selling the shirts at the Freshlife Boutique in Calgary.

New Stuff

2009-06-10T18:16:00.000-07:00

This is a late birthday card that I gave my sister at the end of our travels. I thought of all the most memorable moments and the neatest things we did and saw and drew them on the card.

This is a card my sister and I sent the parents from New Zealand for their 34th wedding anniversary. All I had was pens to draw with. I chose an animal from each of the countries we'd visited and had them relaying the message. Then on the back are my sister and I wearing cute dresses we'd picked up along the way, saying hello.

This is a commissioned painting (2 by 6 feet) I did for a friend. I saw where the painting was supposed to live, and then was given complete freedom to do whatever I wanted. This is what happened. All the white trees were silk screened onto the wood, and the bottom stripy part is scrap fabric from an old sweater of my mother's that I shortened so I could wear it. So much fun!

Cards!

2008-12-04T23:26:00.000-08:00

These are the fronts and then insides of some cards that I have been making and selling.

TIKI!!!!!!

2008-12-04T23:00:00.000-08:00

This is a panel I did as part of a friend's installation in which he turned a gallery into a tiki room with a bar and a stage and bamboo and anything else you could possibly want. I foolishly left it til the day before I needed to have it done and stayed up ridiculously late to finish it... Oh deadlines... I rather like how it turned out. Very silly.

Patterns are lovely.

2008-12-04T22:53:00.000-08:00

These are just some doodles that I decided to try turning into patterns. Oh fun. The coloured one reminds me of a placemat...

T-shirts-o-fun!

2008-10-14T21:43:00.000-07:00

The next three are hand-sewn t-shirt designs that I made to sell at some art markets this summer. I still have some for sale and can always do up more if ever I run out!

The following are silk-screened designs that I did in a course this fall. SUCH FUN!!!!! Also selling these...

Surfing-ho!

2008-10-14T21:41:00.000-07:00

This is just a silly surfing poster. I like surfing.

Children of the World

2008-10-14T21:34:00.000-07:00

I was asked to do a mural in a sunday school room at my church. I was given the theme "Children of the World." Cute! The words are from an old church hymn.

Paintings!

2008-10-14T21:23:00.000-07:00

These are some paintings I threw together for a group show at Oolong . Very silly.

This one is just an experiment.

Art Attack Apron

2008-10-14T21:17:00.000-07:00

I did an apron for the silent auction at art attack this year, and had much fun sewing on eggs and ridiculous little drawings in thread, all related to food of course...

Book related stuff

2008-10-14T21:00:00.001-07:00

The following two are for a fellow I know who is writing a memoir of his childhood and wanted an illustration of the farm he grew up on. It was quite the undertaking... I like how it turned out though.

I also did a book cover for a woman who is self-publishing her book. She had a rather clear idea of what she wanted......pencil rendering.... oh boy....

and more fourth year...

2008-10-10T21:10:00.001-07:00

The following ink drawings are for a short story I wrote that I sadly have not finished. I mean, I have finished writing it, but not illustrating it... I've kind of been second guessing the direction I took, and have been thinking of kind of starting over. Or at least trying some different media and whatnot... Still unsure... Man would I really love to finish it though...

More fourth year

2008-10-10T20:58:00.000-07:00

Fourth Year Stuff...

2008-10-10T20:42:00.000-07:00

These are seasonal banners that were designed for a storefront window display type thing. They're fun because there's a guy living in the bear's stomach. How silly.

Hooray! Let the fun begin!

2008-10-10T20:25:00.000-07:00

So I have finally decided to share my lovely art with all and to make an attempt to keep it updated and the like. Oh boy! I'll post some fourth year stuff for now I suppose...