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I like getting google notifications that my wares are for sale. Today I discovered a tee of mine, “Kiss of Death,” is currently available at Urban Outfitters UK. Too bad the wrinkles make the girl’s eyes look a lil “special.”
Another one of my tees is now being carried at Oak — a great boutique with locations in Williamsburg and in Manhattan on Bond Street. They’ll be getting in my Charlotte Rampling tee, “The Night Porter,” shortly. I think they’re mostly for dudes right now, but the Blood is the New Black website has ladies sizes.
Tags: blood is the new black, clothing, oak, shirts, t-shirt, urban outfitters
Recently I was asked by Peggy and Shirley to create art for another one of Ford’s “challenges” promoting the Ford Fiesta.
Our first collaboration was the Tribeca billboard highlighting Peggy and Shirley’s 10 favorite NYC spots.
The ladies wanted their map to be inspired by 1990’s Lisa Frank stickers, and obviously it had to incorporate each of the locations, including bubble tea spot Quickly, record shop-venue Cake Shop, kosher deli Russ & Daughters, as well as some high class establishments like Dallas BBQ.
Here’s the result!
Our most recent “challenge” was to design an image inspired by a Roxy athlete (in our case famed surfer Lisa Andersen) for a t-shirt, tote bag, and hat.
The resulting illustration had to embody not only the Roxy brand but also resonate with the vibe of the Ford Fiesta campaign.
I created a logo featuring a collage of cute vintage surfing images, athletic girls from the Roxy team, fun graphics that feel summery and embrace the California culture of sun worshipers.
Hearts!
Various applications:
Tags: collage, fiesta movement, ford fiesta, graphic, illustration, inspiration, peggy wang, roxy, shirley braha
Painting #2. Was going to fill in the outlines but I think i’ll leave it as is, the colors look nice
First: blue & green
Then added red & pink acrylic (taking a break before I hit up yellow)
Obligatory detail shot
On to the last one. I like the toile look when it’s all blue.
Added red. Now it feels more John Robshaw
Tags: acrylic, antique, brocade, fashion, floral, handpainted, ornate, propstyling, textile, wallpaper
Work in Progress
Acrylic drippy paint on white set paper. 9′ x 9′
First look.
On set with Nicholas Suttle, Ian Bradley, Jillian Halouska, and Anne from Q models
Tags: acrylic, antique, brocade, fashion, floral, handpainted, model, propstyling, q models, textiles, wallpaper
more work from last night!
Tags: floral, painting, propstyling, textile, wallpaper
I’m working on several fun projects… shirts for Roxy & Ford, a music video pitch for Ladytron, work for Casemate, and huge paintings that will function as backdrops for a fashion editorial shoot this coming Thursday. The following images show my work in progress from today. The images come from vintage wallpaper with colors that I’ve reworked, projected, and am now painting on a very large scale. As in 9 feet by 9 feet. I am trying to make sure these read as paintings and not as wallpaper, so drips and loose interpretations are key.
A very pale blonde haired model wearing summer florals and white will soon be standing in front of my backdrops. Hoping it turns out!
First one.
Outlines done. I’ll color it in on the floor.
It’ll be as if I’m entering the biggest coloring contest of all time!
Tags: painting
I’ve been drawing and painting ladies in varying states of undress for a couple of seasons: bikini clad girls fighting, centerfolds painted in enamel, x-rated collages. There’s been a variety of references and homages to my favorite muses and films, be they Marianne Faithful, Mia Farrow in Secret Ceremony or Charlotte Rampling in The Night Porter.
The last few shirt graphics I did for Blood is the New Black explored similar themes, while taping into darker motifs and several referencing my relationship to Ancient Egyptian iconography. I just found out that Oak (one of my favorite stores) will be carrying two of my shirts from my recent “film series.” Here they are:
Tags: ancient egypt, blood is the new black, charlotte rampling, muses, shirt, the night porter
One of the digital collages I cooked up. The image features a variety of random x-rated sixties images from ladmags and even a Flying Lizard’s reference. Not too subtle but I like where it’s heading.
Tags: collage
Spent all of yesterday looking up photography and posters from May ‘68.
In the midst of my research I realized a lot of the X-girl tees I lusted over by Mike Mills in the 90’s were totally channeling these graphics. I’m sure to most, this is a no brainer, but when you’re 17 and have no idea what the French New Wave or Situationism is, these references are totally lost on you.
Anyway, I’m working on Mai ‘68 inspired graphic tees. Which, I guess, means I’m making images that are retro 60’s-retro-90s. Like 70’s does the flapper 20’s or 90’s does the cardigan clad bowling shoes 50s. Now it’s twentytime does nineties does sixties. NEXT LEVS. My brain might explode.
Trying to do my own take on the imagery while using the classic phrases tagged around Paris.
Love simple French words like "oui" and "non" this season
This is a classic. Simple red & white graphic, love the janky fist
This one is rather timely
Tags: graphic design, may 68, posters
This is a collage I recently cooked up for an Urban Outfitters UK t-shirt. Contained within this geometric shape are images from sexploitation films, astral photography, a portrait of Aleister Crowley, a Dutch Vanitas painting, midnight-movie film stills, and a few with a mysterious provenance.
I’m trying to creatively assemble the massive amounts of images I’ve collected from trolling the internet. Usually I use them for inspiration and pitches, but as I’m learning new skills in Photoshop, I’ve been enjoying making various compositions.
Tags: collage, satanic, t-shirt, urban outfitters
Time to show you what I’ve been up to and what’s in store. I’ve recently been painting with ink a lot, experimenting with digital collages, creating sets, and prop styling. Oh, and there are some fun products and collaborations on the horizon.
This illustration was one of my treatments I submitted to Sephora (obviously it wasn’t selected, another image was). The final illustration the picked will be produced on a signature make up compact coming out Holiday ‘10.
More to come!
Pearl Paint was out of Pebeo’s Vitrail (a solvent-based transparent painting material for working on glass. Very artsy crafty sun catcher making stuff).
So I bought my paints online. Currently waiting waiting waiting for them to arrive.
Frustrating.
The next few pieces are going to look like stained glass.
One or two will be illuminated with lightboxes so they glowwwww.
Or at least that is my intention.
Each day I play around with Photoshop, trying to create interesting digital collages that integrate patterns and overlapping colors and figures. Goal: work that is less cute. Don’t think I’ve found my groove but I’m just happy to experiment and avoid an artistic rut.
Last night’s work:
Tags: art, painting
I’m working on a “Space is the Place” themed painting. Acrylic on plexi glass; tried using florescent paints but they weren’t giving me adequate coverage.
Next piece will be with watercolor or something transparent. I’m interested in seeing the colors overlap. I”m thinking along the lines of the kindergarten art project of making stained glass out of various colored tissue paper squares and glue.
Here is the sketch. At first I couldn’t decide between dayglo pink or blue.
Obviously, I ended up going with blue.
Tags: art, painting
I’m brainstorming for an upcoming New York solo show. More landscapes, more people, more patterns. But trying to take it in a new direction. Not sure where it’s going but hopefully into outer space.
Working backwards; before I even have any images I bought new paint. I’ll be using these colors. There are five fluorescent colors that don’t want to show up when scanned. Picture them in your minddddd
Tags: art, painting
I didn’t submit that last image after all. Instead I asked my peers which images they liked best since it’s near impossible for me to not be biased. The problem with this method was… nobody picked the same pieces. How am I to whittle it down from 13 to 10 projects when nobody agrees which three suck the hardest? Yeah, it was a crap shoot in the end.
Anyway, I have been sorta slacking on the art / blogging thing. But I am trying to get better at Adobe Illustrator and vector graphics. Gotta diversify in this economy! Here is something I made for Rachel Ray’s website. Yes, Rachel Ray. Weird, huh?
Tags: client, illustration
I’m in the process of entering Young Guns, we’ll see how it goes. I think I may submit this old cut paper image I made years and years ago. I still like it. Oh so summery.
Tags: cute, illustration, summer
Recently, Roanne Adams, asked me to whip up an illustration for an organic beauty line called Tata Harper. She’s an ex-classmate of mine from Parsons , now working as an art director and sharing a studio with Refinery29. Pretty cool.
I rarely use Adobe Illustrator, and when I do I just convert my hand drawn files into vector, but I like how this graphic flat color direction turned out.
INITIAL SKETCH MASKED OUT WITH COLORS
FINISHED PIECE
Tags: beauty, client, drawing
David recently created this poster for the Focus Feature documentary “Without A Home.”
One of his designs incorporated my drawings. Unfortunately, the client will likely go with a vector illustration version. Oh well. I like how his poster turned out, so I colored it in and am posting it anyway.
Tags: client, illustration
