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T-shirts and Tote bags galore!

I need to apologize in advance for the ridiculous number of pictures to follow. I got these shirts and tote bags back from the printers a couple of days ago, and this morning the sun came out just long enough for us to take some pictures! I’ve hired Nicholas (part time model) to help me out with these:

Percolating silkscreened unisex tee in soft cream and burnt orange. Coffee, coffee, coffee!

Kitty Heaven tee in leaf green, and below in teal.

In girls’ sizes, turquoise and white scoop tees.

This time around I thought we’d print up some flowy racerback tanks, in pebble and white.

Last but not least, there are finally tote bags! For all your book, food and knicknack-haulin’ needs!

In “Moth Girl,” “Percolating,” and “Kitty Heaven.”

So, stocking up for holidy craft shows! If you’re still with me after that exhausting lineup of photos, here’s the holiday art show & craft fair schedule!

 

30 paintings in 30 days – the halfway point update

Here’s an update on how all 30 little canvases are coming along, counting down the days till the October 30th deadline for the ’30 Day Art Challenge’ show.

(that’s Robin E Kaplan’s wonderful Star Trek fan art on the wall)

As I’m working on all 30 at once, most of them at this point I consider about half-baked, some more, some less.

Okay, probably shouldn’t show this, but here is Kiki rolling all over the paintings. As long as they’re not wet, I indulge her addiction to flat pieces of paper/cardboard/canvas. Do all cats do this?

After painting in white outlines on all canvases, I went in with some skin-tones, then moved onto hair.

Floating heads, stretched ears-used for mice transport, UFOs and sullen eyes.

Okay! Onto another day of floundering around in this acrylic world, and pretending to know what I’m doing!!

vote for me?

RAWartists are holding their annual artists competition, with finalists in all categories (visual art, fashion, photography, performance, etc.) Everyone who has worked with rawartists is in the competition, so, that means me!

If you feel like it, I’d be super grateful if go to the site and vote for me – it takes just a minute, and in the [extremely] off chance that I get into finals, there’s the possibility of art space show placement, art supply gift cards, consultations and write-ups. I’d be incredulous! And I’d have you to thank!

Here’s what you can do to help:
You can vote once a day, until October 15th.
1. Go to www.RAWartists.organd click REGISTER at the top of the homepage …

2. Input a valid email address (only have to do this once) 3. Verify the email address by checking your email and confirming it 4. Log-on with your new registation and vote!

New Gallery page!

If any of you have been on my blog the last couple of days you may have encountered some chaos, as I’ve been dinking around with stuff in which I’m not really literate (not so HTML savvy, this one). But! I think things are somewhat sorted: look up to your left, there, and try clicking on the new “Gallery” tab! Yes! I’ve created a new place for my pictures to live. I’m using carbonmade.com, a portfolio-builder still in the beta stages.

I spent most of yesterday organizing pictures, and there’s still a ways to go, but I rather like how things are turning out.

Also, I’ve changed the blog format from an infinite scroller to more of a photo collage on the main screen. Please if you have a minute let me know what you think – if you like it, if you hate it, if it’s confusing or fun. Okay, now back to work! :)

Chinadoll

Let me introduce you to: miss Chinadoll! Along with Yakuzabot, she’s going in the mail tomorrow down to L.A. to be part of the Giant Robot Biennal 3 Remix project. This is one of the very first two dolls I’ve ever customized, and with her, I took the extra step of adding super sculpey to her face and hair-buns, also giving her a modest chest. This all resulted in her being quite top-heavy… like me she is a clumsy girl, and often finds herself falling flat on her face (though me, not for the top-heavy reason. ahem).

Also, she has eyeballs growing out of her back!! See the before picture here.

Here are the two together - to them, the (slight) size discrepancy isn’t important. They are in love.

And here is Yakuzabot’s finished tattoo work.

And glamour shot. :) This was loads of fun to do. Now, what to do with all this extra sculpey clay??