Mr. Arthur pants.

week six

So since we call Arthur "Mr. Arthur Pants" Jessica came up with the Idea to get a tattoo of an "A" wearing a pair of pants! I loved the Idea so much I had to steal it. This will eventually be going somewhere on my boyd (not sure where yet) and the color/style of pants may change.

NOTE: I did not draw the plaid myself, that was photoshoped.

Artsy Fartsy

week 4

Okay so I actually did this one at the end of December, as a gift for my sister and her husband, but I like it so much I had to show it off, plus I may have missed a week so I'm slipping it in!

Week 5

I actually did this one as a new business card/logo design for my stylist who just opened her own salon. The best part of this arrangement is that I'm getting paid in trade! This means that I won't have to pay to get my hair done for months!

January Illustrations

So if you also read my actualT blog you know that one of my goals for 2010 is to create an illustration every week, for a total of 52 illustrations in 2010.

here is what I have come up with for my first month.

Week One

I was inspired by an image a friend of my posted on Face book. This one was a lot of fun. I love to draw in black and white.

Week two

This was done in pen and Gouache a type of water color paint. This was going to be a Christmas present for my sister (who's son is named Jack) but I did not have a chance to get it done for Christmas. I forgot how much I love to paint with gouache.

Week three

For the most part I am going to keep my illustration hand drawn, but I spent all my free time this week working on some illustrations for Actual Industries which I did in Adobe Illustrator.

Three is all I got so far. Stay tuned I will upload a new one each week all year!

What did you do today?

So the other day I was reading my new How Magazine and there was an article called Daily Deadlines about making a new small work of art every day. Two of my favorite featured artists are the Skull-A-Day and Obsessive Consumption artists. I fell in love with the idea, and thought I would copy it a bit, and start creating my own works of art every day.

Since I am on maternity leave, I figured that I needed a bit of a creative outlet for the next 3-5 months, so I plan to illustrate one thing that I do each day during my time off, and some day I will give the books to Arthur.

Week One
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Stay tuned for more of what I did today...

Bad Ass Mommy.

So I have been told by more then one person that I need to make a diaper bag, and at last I have finally done just that. My little sister has a friend who in having a baby, and wanted a diaper bag that wasn't all diaper baggy. She is having a girl but did not want something all girly, and wanted something that did not look like she was carrying a diaper bag. I totally know where she is coming from, because when I have kids I know I don't want to carry around some cutesie diaper baggy, diaper bag. Thus the Bad Ass Mommy Diaper bag was born.

My inspiration came from a diaper bag that my older sister (who is a mother of a 2.5 year old little boy) LOVES!!! It is the Spark by Skip Hop. Since I did not have a pattern to work off of I went to Target and bought the bag so I could look at it more closely and come up with a pattern of my own (which I will have to create again if I make another one of these bags, because my dog ate the pattern... I'm not even kidding). Having the bag to look at and use to make the pattern was so helpful. Since I'm still pretty new to this whole blogging thing I for got to take photo's of my precess, so I will just have to show you the final product.

Here it is!

I had a lot of fun creating this bag and it turned out just like I wanted it to. One of the best features that this bag has (which I totally stole from the fore mentioned bag) is inside and out side clips that make it possible to clip the diaper bag to the handles of your stroller (see photo to the right). This is one of the features that make the Spark diaper bag my sisters favorite. There are also plenty of pockets both inside and out. I think it is a perfect size neither to big or small.

The best pat of my bag and what makes it so BAD ASS is the fabric. I found this fabric a while back and have fallen in love with it. I have a bag made out of it for myself, and I love peoples reactions when they see it. First they are all like wow that is so pretty, and then they look at it closer and are all like OMG are those SKULLS?! And they are, but is is still the pretties pattern. It is the perfect fabric for bags because it is a heavy canvas like fabric. I was super happy to make a bag out of this fabric because it is one of my favorites, and I cant wait to carry this diaper bag myself... Anyway it was the perfect print for this bag, and since the recipient of the bag is having a girl I lined it with some pink polka dotted oil cloth... because even if you still want to be a bad ass mommy, it's still fun to be pretty!

Inspired!!!

So lately I have been in a bit of a rut. No new ideas, and no energy. Over the last few days I have been trying to be inspired again.

Last Wednesday I went to a few of my favorite places to be inspired. First I went to Powells and grabbed a whole mess of great books, and looked through them over a cup of tea and made some notes. I came up with at least 2 or 3 fun projects to start.

Next I went to some place new. I went and looked around the museum of contemporary craft. It is a really cool place, and there is no admission on weekdays. I looked at a lot of art that inspired me as well.

Next I walked down to the pearl and looked around in one of my favorite stores Oblation papers and press. I love all the great cards, paper, ribbon, and most importantly I love drooling at all the great presses... I WANT ONE!!!

Last I walked over to Print Arts Northwest my FAVORITE gallery in the pearl and looked at all the wonderful prints. If I had money I would have bought so many of them. I figured out that what I really really want to do is start printmaking again. I miss it so much. I need to get myself a press, or take a class, or something soon...

Anyway I feel much more inspired and hope to get going on some projects soon... so stay posted.

Lazy T / The Sampler

So I have been the worst blogger as of late. I have been feeling a bit less then creative, but need to get it into gear I know...

One thing I have been up to is creating a set of samples (a monkeys in hats gift pack that includes a blank note card, bookmark, and button) to send into the greatest place that I recently learned about called the Sampler. It is a great program where crafty people like me, or even writers ans musicians can send in samples of there work. The great people at the sampler then put together packages of samples and send them out to their subscribers. I'm super excited to be featured on their website, and to have my samples sent out, now I just have to get my ass in gear and update my website for all those new customers that I hope to get.