A Little Inspirational Words

For the week starting in June and ending in July. I picked out several books that have been sitting waiting for me to read them. The book on Eleanor Roosevelt won. Here is a little summer time inspiration for those times when you needs some words. 

Argyle: a very silly pattern

For the last week of June. This is a lesson I have been trying to learn, and had it rubbed in my face tonight by a guy who is right but also kind of an ass. So be the crazy argyle of the world... not the boring green plaid! In other words be your self; do it your way. Sometimes I have to be reminded, which is kind of sad I suppose. I guess tonight I kind of felt like argyle?

A Skull soaked in Blood

For the week in June towards the end. This week I have been working on a project referencing the Loteria Cards and Día de los Muertos so playing with skulls worked it's way into the poster. 

Sunny Junabell

For the week ending on June 13th. It has been so sunny lately I have am starting to worry! It is Seattle after all! How every I have been thinking of beach/tropical places to go. 

Shout Out to the Show

For the first week of June. Camera Obscura is one of my favorite musical groups that I found by randomly purchasing CDs that had photography references one day, many years ago. I have never seen them perform but just learned that they have a show tomorrow night in my general location. Score! 

Hand Draw You Crazy Type

Drew this today, a Tuesday late in May.  Hand-drawn poster!

Giant Squid and Wine Tasting Rain.

Two to show you this week:


This poster created in early May. It was probably the quickest poster I've done so far. But what else can you say about Giant Squids.

In addition to the challenge: this poster took much of my time this week. This is the poster for Sasquatch but even though it is mailed off, it's still not where I wanted it to be. The text drops are all hand drawn. 

Green starts to fade as May Begins

For the week beginning in April and ending in May 2009. This was a kind of dare: do something with an octopus and make it a pirate. What do you think?

Too Much Sun today? Never!

Created for the week of April 21 2009. Started with the idea about birds tweeting a cute little message. But then the elephant and some sun light attacked my head. A good message for head and the job search. 

April by Theme and Green

For the week containing April 16th. Keeping with the theme that seems to be take over this month: Green. I started thinking about doing a "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle," or as I saw in Singapore: "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Rebuild," or a "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Compost" poster. So while I was working on building up the green, I started listening to a "Stuff Mom Never Told You" pod-cast about your brain and wanting to buy things. Which lead to thoughts about how I don't ware half the shoes I own, mainly due to the fact they need to be repaired. Anyway I think you can see where that lead...

Will post sasquatch poster sketches soon! Cheers.

Green For April

Created April 1st. After a weekend participating in Earth hour and going to the Green Festival it seemed appropriate to create something for Earth Day, which is coming up soon. Read The Lorax and go plant a tree.

March Poster 4

Created March 26th. When I started this poster I was thinking about the background patterns of the beautiful paintings in "Garden and Cosmos: The Royal Painting of Jodhpur" a show I recently saw at the Seattle Asian Art Museum. I started off working on the pattern but things kind of went awry when my thoughts turned to rummage sales.

March Poster 3

Created 3rd week of March for a Circus theme Birthday Party. It was used for invites and my boyfriend printed it on to a t-shirt to be the poster boy.

March Poster 1

Created the first week of March.

February Poster

Created the last week of February. This is the poster that started it all, created following the Facebook poster challenge guidelines:

1 - Go to "wikipedia." Hit “random... Read More... Read More” or clickhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.

2 - Go to "Random quotations" or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.

3 - Go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”
or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4 - Use photoshop or similar to put it all together.

5 - Post it to FB with this text in the "caption" and TAG the friends you want to join in. (you can untag yourself if you don't want this photo up)