The Shop

Seeing as this is my 200th post, I thought it fitting to officially announce the opening of my new shop space. One of the primary reasons I moved from my apartment in the NW to NoPo was the promise that this space held.

I'm incredibly excited! Originally this space was a garage and had been used for home brewing. The current owner of the house had repurposed it as a dog pin and lounge space ( including a full size beer fridge) but in more recent years it's just been used for general storage. We removed a built in dog pin that was in the far left corner, installed a washtub over the french drain in the far right corner, installed a large chalkboard, some lights and modified a rescued cabinet from the rebuilding center into a drying and storage unit for the screens.

I hope to get my supplies sorted out this week and get going on two card projects for my Etsy shop before the weeks end. I also have several apparel projects in the works, with hopes of getting those printed by next week. Stay tuned!

T-Shirt Chomp

So I decided it was time to up-train my hand with silkscreening. Doing simple one color and even two color prints is easy stuff but not really. I'll be leaking class secrets and more about the class this weekend as I go through and clean up my notes. Above is a doodle of a rather large conveyer dryer that's used for curing the inks on your tee's.

Holiday Gift - Scarfs Process Video

A few months back I posted a couple of Bee drawings.. coffee table and sketch book. From those little doodles eventually birthed this years holiday gift.

I'm big on story telling, both emotional & literal. So this year, as last year, the pieces each spoke about the relationship of the wearers to each other. Boys and no kid having men, Bee's. Girls and no kid having women, flowers. Dad's, Mom's & Grandparent's each received combo scarfs, half either bee's or flowers and the other half a Bee Hive. All scarfs had a subtle yellow honeycomb pattern under the chocolate brown print.

I'll be posting more pictures soon but thought for now, a little process showcase was in order. Enjoy!