Dayenu, the fact that I'm getting old, and tenacious tanlines.

Excerpts of the art booklet (brochure? booklet?) that I designed for Margaret. I think I'm getting old, I can't handle late night designing like I used to. Mama needs to sleep. On the upside, I got to stare at lovely earth & water tones for a few hours. That's pleasant. Not as pleasant as actual beach time, but hey, I'll take what I can get. 

Speaking of beach time

This photo was taken at Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, sometime last May. We arrived around six in the morning, staked our claim on the beach, exclaimed about a dolphin sighting, and found a Starbucks for croissants and coffee. I made a half-hearted attempt at reading before falling asleep on the beach for a few hours. We rented an umbrella and, no matter what he tells you, Justin hogged it because I woke up in blazing heat with the first sunburn I'd had in over ten years. I STILL have the tanline on my back. 

Beach time needs to happen soon. Staring at Margaret's textured sintra plates placates for only so long. 

Time for Plans B, C, and Z.

print via Busy Building Things

Resovolution.

loving the prints from Arquebus

Christopher David Ryan

I'm digging this guy's design and print work.
Oh look,  he designed a spread about baking. Be still my heart!

i like-like you

I'm like-liking these letterpress cards from Farewell Paperie.

O'Neil Before Me!

aww yeah, I designed this.

 

via lunchbreath

Printer woes

(via text after I spent twenty minutes opening, closing, and cleaning the HP Color Laser Jet 5550dn printer)
me: Some ass had the switch from standard to custom and the printer was freaking out thinking there was a paper jam.
Justin: Lol. That was me.
me: Justin!
Justin: My bad.
me: Mmhmm.
Justin: I was printing transparencies!!
me: What. Ever.

I saw it. I wanted it. I bought it.

You can too! | Not Made in China

Purging and consolidating two years of art shit from two flat file drawers into organized hotness

from this:

to this:

I do like adventure and saying "darling"

adorable prints from Fifi du Vie

[on certain crazy printmakers]
Liz: Erwin was having his print workshop so he told everyone to bring food. Ann made a lasagna, Betsy brought quinoa, and ____ brought two hardboiled eggs and a Korean can of tuna.

Yee-Haw!!

I'm excited for the Yee-Haw Industries Visual Voices lecture tonight. They combine my love of typography and printmaking! They like using brown paper like I do (Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not archival, I know)! AND they's old timey!

I like old timey.




I SEEN EM FIRST!!!

Y'all just don't know.

[via gchat]
Stephanie: Yesterday was awesome because i went to an all day workshop at this place where they teach t-shirt screenprinting

Stephanie:  like stuff they do with high density inks. It was incredible.

Me:  omg I love inks!

Stephanie:  with the high density ink, they printed a 3-D mini guitar a good half inch off the fabric and they slipped a teflon rod underneath where the spoke thingies go

Me:  whoa

Stephanie:  so that they actually do not touch the shirt and just hang there. Then there was this one where it was a 3-d effect. It was made up of tiny goblets of ink, like a tiny dome of ink,

and a third of the ink was white, a third blue, a third black. So if you shifted one way, the design appeared all white.

me:  whaaaaaaat

Stephanie:  if you shifted the other way, the design appeared all blue. Yeah, it's amazing.

me:  Man, can you imagine if we had this conversation in public? People would be like “omg, nerds.”

What would an octopus with a monocle on a high wheel bicycle say?

Justin: I don't know but it would probably be in an English accent.

Sofia: What the fuck am I doing here? Maybe it should wear a vest and join a steam punk band.

Pa: ?
me: No, I'm not setting up a joke. I'm legitimately asking.

Meeks: Good day.

Bates: Nothing. Octopi don't ride bicycles.

Rachel S.: like hell you're not setting up a joke!
me: I'm doing a print!
Rachel S.: I suppose a dapper cephalopod on his morning ride?

Rachel N.: Hahahah! I have no idea. I am stumped.
me: haha ok thanks.
Rachel N.: You don't have an answer for me? Man, I'm going to think of this all night now.

Richard: I wish I had thumbs.

Impact 2010: 24 hour arts marathon

full flickr set

Highlights: 

+ All the ice cream sandwiches we could eat.

+ Sneaking off for nap time. 

+ Steamroller prints

+ more of a sleepover than a marathon

+ Sneaking off to watch Valentine's Day

+ Sleeping at school. Madness. 

+ Helen's crazy medical tent robe

+ Spray-painting things at four in the morning

+ Sneaking off to Southside, hence the nap time.

GMU Printmakers @ the National Gallery

"I'll sell your memories for fifteen pounds per year but you can keep the bad days"

The Small Print | Muse

On saturday I will be:

- demonstrating basic printmaking techniques at the National Portrait Gallery. You should come if you want to learn how to make monoprints or basic etching plates. 11ish to 3 pm.

- gallivanting around dc with ms. liz e. looking at art and all that jazz. falafeling it up at amsterdam falafel in adams morgan.

- showing some of my art (and iron shannon's! and daniel dean's!) at the Lamont Street Collective. I'm not sure what time I'll be there. Give me a ring if you'd like to meet up for art or falafel.