Recently

It's been a long time since my last post, because I've been working away both at school and in my temporary studio at The Long Haul. I've been using my time at the studio to get back into painting and drawing and as a result I have become a bit obsessed with pattern designing - drawing things by hand and manipulating them in Photoshop... I've been loving trying some things out in that direction. Here are some of the latest results:

(I feel like this last one would be be perfect for gift-wrapping anything in Pee-Wee's Playhouse)

I've always loved hand-lettering and calligraphy so I've been enjoying practicing that too.

Some from the Vaults

Some drawings from a 2011 sketchbook:

Yesterday I discovered and joined Retronaut, the web-site of my dreams, chock-a-block with bizarre photos from the past, going way back to the invention of photography until the 1990s. 

My personal favorites are the "Banner Ladies", who - from what I can gather - where the some of first "sandwich board" advertisers - you get the feeling from the photograph that this was a totally new kind of job for women. I love everything about these photographs but the way the clothes are ornamented especially blows my mind. Hanging dolls off a dress is definitely one way to get peoples' attention: