Housefly Tea Towels!!

This morning’s project, something I’ve been wanting to do for a long time: cover some towels with houseflies!! I ordered a pack of 12 flour sack cotton tea towels, and they arrived in the mail yesterday, so – I had to start today! Houseflies first… now I need to do some brainstorming to decide what should be printed next!

Step one: Draw design on rubber.

Step two: carve away everything but your design.

Step three: start printing! I used silkscreen ink (Speedball) and a little foam roller (you can find them at hardware supply stores), then used a hard rubber brayer to press the stamp down on the fabric. I believe you can also use acrylic – at least, when I get it on my clothes it seems to stay fine no matter how many times it’s washed.

Step four: let dry, then iron to set the ink.

Yay! Now all insects that happen to get inside will seem teeny in comparison!

Towels are up in the shop, here.

An earthwormy-kind of mood

“Vase” – pencil and watercolor, 5×7.”

Working, working

Untitled as of now – pencil, ink, watercolor and cotton – I’m working on a bunch of new pieces for a solo show coming up in May, in Dayton, WA - sooo excited!

“Fireflies and Cigarettes” – girls, flowers, creepy crawlies and lots of ink. I’ll post when I have more details!

T-shirts IN!

Sooooooo – after dreaming about this for quite some time now, we have T-shirts!!! This morning the lovely Milli Kato and Mr. Burrington helped out with their modeling skills [part-time models! You're so beautiful, you could be a - - ] Yeah. Without further ado, here they are!!