Without Walls Photo Shoot

With all of the custom bags I was working on, Without Walls asked to do a photoshoot at my studio accompanied by an interview for the Urban Outfitters blog to go along with the custom bag launch. Giant thanks to Max Dworkin for all of the amazing photos! Check out the blog post here for the full story and even MORE photos (if you can believe it) there were so many gems to choose from.

Neon Acrylic + Watercolor Paintings

Sometimes I forget how awesome watercolors are.  After doing the topographic watercolor map series paintings I was amped to do some more painting but wanted to branch out into more abstract and nonsense as per usual.  I was also looking for a project to use some neon acrylic paint I forgot I had.  So far I have finished 3 but only two count since the 3rd was just sort of a warm up mess.  Here's the three framed:

Close-ups of the two on the left:

I was going for abstract figurative and I like this style, I hope to paint more like this in the future.  Here's an in progress photo of the second painting:

I also recently participated in the Sketchbook Project's Pen Pal Painting Exchange where you get a 4" x 4" canvas to paint.  When you're done you mail it back to them along with a little postcard about yourself filled out and they match your painting with another participant's submission, swap the paintings, and send each other's paintings back to your newly matched pen pal.  Here is the painting I submitted:

Here is the wall of all of the mini painting submissions at the Brooklyn Art Library Gallery exhibition.  You can see more photos on the Sketchbook Project's flickr.

In-progress photo of my mini painting:

Close-up of my warm up painting:

And a photo of all 3 in their new happy home above my cutting table!

Hooray!!

New Studio: Tour

Well things have been pretty crazy around here for a while.  I was planning on posting some photos of the new studio shortly after we moved in on Feb 2nd but clearly that didn't happen.  So here we are a few new pieces of furniture and a whole lot of organization later, quite an improvement from the last place as far as space goes.  It's a converted warehouse building turned apartments with a whopping 1300 square feet located in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.  Have a look around!

Teeny totally sneaking in this shot.

Still have some posters to hang, oops.

Remember these paintings?

Knick knacks and supplies

Treasures!

Panorama! Courtesy of my iPhone.

Apartment Handywork

After weeks of spray painting and glass cleaning, I finally got all of my posters framed and arranged on the wall in addition to all of the other things I was putting off hanging up.  About time, since I moved into this apartment last July.  A few of them I got professionally framed because I couldn't find the right size frame and the rest I bought cheap frames and spray painted them.  Bet you can't guess which ones are which.

All my treasures!

Clockwise from top left

(Clown, Treasure, Cupco dolls, Golden Ghost, Paper Cut, Surfer Blood, 

Turn up the Color, Pedal Power, Hold it Together, Diamond, Adam Smith, Andrew Groves

The opposite wall: skate decks and the sun!

Shelves above my desk: mason jars with beads and buttons along with other knick knacks.

I got this awesome white solid wood wall shelf but it was a bit bland for my taste so I spiced it up a bit.

I spray painted it bright red and covered it with a protective UV coating.  Then I screwed on some fun little blue and yellow hooks because there seemed to be a lot of empty space there to not have any hooks.

Here it is hanging on my wall looking much less lonely with all of those things on it.  The turtle and alpaca I got in Peru.  I made the tiny crown and birthday hat.  The kitty I got here.

Bedroom wall with red shelf, Teeny cat (she loves the treasure chest), and Little Friends poster

Cubby and hooks with awesome Tad Carpenter Poster

More frames by my Brooches

Now that all the frames are on the wall instead of clotting up my space it's back to work!