I've been sketchin!

My first attempt at four color silk-screening!

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

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...

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

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

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

New Mumble Tease Designs in all their colorful glory!!

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

Just some more silly sketches from my silly sketchbook!

Weekly Sketch Challenge with Chika Part 1: Spring

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!!!

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

Sketchy Collab with Chika!

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!

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!

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...