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crafty set-up

admin — Tue, 15 May 2012 16:46:32 +0000

O.K., that was fun: my first ever craft fair vendor experience at the Crafty Wonderland Super Colossal Spring Sale. Check out the cool display case that Mykle built for me. It has a pin board on the left and little shelves on the right and it closes up flat into a box. The weather was just gorgeous that day, so I guess there were a few less customers than usual, but I sold a few things and learned a lot. Hopefully I’ll do this again for the big one in December!

I’m officially crafty

admin — Wed, 09 May 2012 04:59:14 +0000

It’s official now: I’m crafty! Look for me (blobhouse) at Crafty Wonderland this Saturday. Me and a couple hundred other crafty people are going to sell their handmade goods at the Convention Center. 11am to 6pm! Strategically happening on the day before Mothers Day, nudge, nudge. Mykle made me a fantastic display case with all kinds of bells and whistles. Photos will follow soon. And best of all: Phina will be selling her excellent sock monkeys in the kid’s section.

pardon the dust

admin — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 20:17:16 +0000

I am re-shuffeling my website today and of course there will be dust while I saw off some dead limbs. Stay with me until this is hopefully all straightened out and you will find a slimmer, more illustration-centric website.

designed by kids

admin — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 03:45:03 +0000

For a Crayola commercial that I directed for Nickelodeon, we hired the kids of Laika employees as character designers. Nobody draws better than kids!

Scarlett’s chickens

admin — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:27:07 +0000

A commercial I did in December- sorry about the late posting. But is it really ever too late to buy some chickens for a farmer?

100 $how at Wieden and Kennedy

admin — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:10:48 +0000

I have a couple of pieces in this show this month. It opened with a snazzy affair on first Thursday a few days ago. Fun concept!

The 100 $HOW at the Wieden + Kennedy gallery, Portland – 02.02.12 — 5pm to 6am.
Each original illustration on display will be sold for $100.00 USD. Half of the purchase price goes to the artist and half goes to Mercy Corps.

THE 100 $HOW showcases original works of 100 illustrators from Canada, England, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Sweden and the US. These award-winning artists have been recognized by The Society of Publication Design; American Illustration; The Society of Illustrators; D&AD; Young Guns; The Advertising & Design Club of Canada; and the Art Directors Club of New York and Germany.

start the year with turtles

admin — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 06:34:25 +0000

Turtles are funny and mysterious. So I started my year 2012 by donating a few of them to a fundraiser for the Turtle Rescue Team .

Oz opening night

admin — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 20:31:54 +0000

Last night My Oz opened at the Albina Press. I didn’t really know how all the little pieces would look once they came together as scenes, because I don’t have the space to lay them out at home. So this was all new to me too, even after working on this show for about 9 months. Those huge white walls were quite intimidating to me when I first started thinking about the show, knowing that for the most part I like to work at quite a small scale. It turned out to all work nicely in the space at the Albina Press.

Opening night was great, lots of people showed up and many red dots were placed! The show runs until January 10th. Here are some pictures.

my oz

admin — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 02:05:01 +0000

Artshow time! I have worked super hard over the past 9 months to get this show together and I think it will be special. Opening night is this Friday December 9th from 6pm to 8pm and it will run until January 10th. The place is the Albina Press, 4637 N Albina Ave, Portland, Oregon. Its enormous white walls will be filled with lions, scarecrows, witches, flying monkeys, a poppy field, Kansas, the Emerald City and more!

The Oz of my childhood is quite different from the 1939 movie that most Americans are familiar with. My Oz was in a book called ‘Der Zauberer der Smaragdenstadt’— the East German translation of the Russian version of the original L. Frank Baum story. This show represents my own interpretation of that Oz made up of hundreds of small wall-hanging sculptures and cardboard cut-outs.

doom and gloom

admin — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 13:57:11 +0000

For the last week the lobby at Laika has been filling up with artsy pumpkins. Portland artists, a lot of them from Laika have created an amazing range of pumpkins to be auctioned off for a fundraiser for the Children’s Trust of Oregon. Here is mine. The ravens are called Doom And Gloom.

You can see some of the other ones here. My favorite is the exploding whale.