Night Yeti - Chair Affair 2011 Entry

Today I drop off my Community Warehouse Chair Affair 2011 entrant, "The Night Yeti". It will be auctioned off starting April 28th, along with several other wonderful furniture creations from various Portland Artist! The proceeds of the auction will go to the Community Warehouse, who collect and redistribute donated furniture and household goods to low-income individuals and families in Oregon and Southwest Washington. The Chair Affair is their biggest fundraising event and I'm proud to have my lil feller on their auction block.

There'll be two chances to bid and support the Community Warehouse on April 28th and 29th. Be sure to checkout the website, http://www.communitywarehouse.org/chair-affair-2011 and to reserve your ticket today.

I don't often work with 3D objects, so making this guy was a unique challenge for me. There was also the stipulation that the object should retain it's functionality so I started off by cleaning and sanding down the nightstand I picked from the Community Warehouse back in Nov. and then spray painting it with a powder blue exterior and red interior.

Finally I brought him inside and did the detail work with a mix of polyvinly stickers and arcylic paints, the end result...
There are little hidden gems ( like the brains in the drawer) that I think the buyer will enjoy finding as they use this piece. If you like my lil Yeti and would like to bid on him to support a great cause, please be sure to checkout the Community Warehouse Chair Affair 2011 event.

Monsters and Waffles

This morning I decided to make some tasty waffles from scratch, following this recipe, and of course I tweeted out a photo of a stack of waffles awaiting consumption. In response to that, Almost Monday, a fellow printmaker here in Portland, asked if monsters like Waffles... And at first I assumed they all would, but then I remembered a friend of mine from college who has seriously super hairy arms and feared syrup. So I came to this conclusion, scaly and bald monsters would probably love waffles, but furry critters might not be so fond.

Think Fast!

Wait, that's not what I meant...

F.U. Booger

Peanut Butter asks the question that will change lunch forever...

How milk gets involved is another comic all together...

Even Wrapped Fish Can Pine...

Dumb Bread

This is how my toast get's made most mornings... Other times it involves dodge ball, but it's always fun.

Fancy Monsters Drink Wine...

Been a while since I just posted a doodle, soo... Please enjoy my fancy monster friend as he sips his wine.

HiP at The Pull

Just before the holiday madness Bettie, of HandMade In Portland aka HiP, paid a visit to The Pull to get some totes made. She's posted this great review over at her blog about her time with us and what you could expect if you want to get some screen printing done. HiP is a great resource for learning about Handmade vendors and events here in Portland!

** Update ** HiP is no more, Bettie has started a new site called Little Paper Cities as she focuses more on her love of photography. Be sure to check out her Etsy shop for prints and notecards in the near future.

*photo credit Bettie Newell

Introducing Stuffies!

Those of you who came and saw CuriousDoodles and I got a sneak peak of my plushie toy collectable line, Stuffies! I've now added the Pengies and our beloved lil Monster to my etsy shop! Stuffies are hand screen printed using water based non-toxic ink on organic fair trade cotton. This makes them oh so soft to touch and snuggle. The backs are carefully chosen reclaimed scrap materials, often cotton plaid flannels, or wool. They are then machine sewed by me, and stuffed with a Bamboo based Natur-Fil® rayon stuffing. Finally they are hand sewn shut. It's been a lot of learning and work to get these lil fellers done, I hope you like them!

There's more Stuffies on the way... I wanna thank CuriousDoodles for all her help as I'm learning my way around the sewing machine. More soon!

Holiday Card Time lapse!

While printing this years batch of holiday cards I thought it would be fun to show you some of the process that goes into silk screening by making a fun time lapse of the penguin cards being made! I take you from exposing and hosing to getting the job off press in under 2mins! Don't forget, the cards are now available in my shop!

Holiday Card Pre-Sale Ends Today!

Just a reminder, my Holiday Card Pre-Sale ends today! Order now from my Etys.com shop and save up to 50% on the Penguin Happy Holidays card, or the Monster Merry Christmas card!

The Pull - Ladies in Hats

This past weekend The Pull was lucky to have Angela Sun come and use our studio to help create her Lady In Hat prints on muslin and a striped cotton fabric. When you use our D.I.Y Custom Screen Printing options to pull your own prints, you'll find your screen exposed and on press waiting for you to print when you arrive.
We mix the inks, and give you a demo on how to proceed. Then we are there with you through the printing process to make sure you get the best prints possible.

Here I am running the flash curer to properly set the inks while Angela continues to run prints on the press. The end result, these lovely 6" x 6" Ladies in Hats wall art pieces.

Angela will be offering these in her Etsy shop soon. I'll update this post with a link as soon as I have one. If there's something you'd like to print, please check out the D.I.Y Custom Screen Printing section of my website and Together, Let's Make Something!

Update!!! - As members of my email list should be aware, Angela has opened her Etsy shop and is not offering these lovely items for sale!

Something Cute this way comes...

Just a sneak peak of something in the works that I'm really excited about... more soon!

Holiday Card Pre-Sale starts today!

The holiday season is almost upon us. Soon we'll be wrapping gifts, sending cards, traveling to visit loved ones, and just enjoying the winter months the only way we know how, with warmth, love and togetherness. To help with your holiday gift list, I'm busy making new gift items and cards. With that in mind, I am very excited to offer my new Holiday Greeting cards available for pre-sale!

These two cards will be hand screen printed using water based inks on Mohawk 30% PCW recycled Via Vellum Kraft paper. The cards will feature an original illustrations of either a gaggle of adorable penguins lining up to wish you and yours Happy Holidays! or two adorably furry monster about to exchange gifts while wishing everyone a Merry Christmas! Each style is available in a 5, 10 or 25 card pack.

Order your cards now via my Etsy.com shop and save up to 50%! The pre-sale starts today and runs till Nov 20th, after that their prices will increase. Cards will begin shipping on November 22nd via USPS first class mail. Stay tune to http://www.diskgrunt.etsy.com for more announcements and new gift items over the next couple of weeks! Thanks for all your support!

Penguins and Zombies

I'm working on something that involves a lot of little cute pengies ... So I've been sketching a lot of them!

And while a little late, I give you Zombie Penguin... "Herrings..."

Pup and Sheep review!

My Pup and Sheep t-shirts have received a lovely write up from Bo over at Loving This Tee. Loving this Tee is an awesome t-shirt review blog, and if you're looking for what new threads to buy I'd suggest checking it out.

Roscoe's Hopped Barley Tea

I was approached by Cristina Dunseth to help make her 1 year wedding anniversary gift something special. Her husband brews his own beer, and she was getting some letter pressed 24oz beer labels made but also wanted to get some posters and T-Shirts done up. The artwork was printed without knockouts, so we achieved a three color effect by printing on top of the white in some spots and directly on the paper or t-shirt in other spots. I also found out that the poster was submitted to the HOW Poster Design Contest! So you might here more about this print in the future.

Update! While mostly focused on the lables, the poster is shown over at Lovely Packages!

Update two! The poster, labels and shirt were featured on FPO recently! The identity also won a 2010 Portland Ad Federation Rosey award! Congrats to the hard work and excellent design skills of HUB Creative!

Marker Doodles

Just some fun marker doodles, I've been playing with my Copic markers lately trying to learn them as a coloring medium. I haven't figured out the blending marker yet but hope to get a better handle on them soon.

Inside the Rainbow

Inside the rainbow where bear has never been before. Never before now.

This is my first submission to Threadless for their Tron Legacy challenge. There's some great designs, and mines really a parody playing of the 80's time frame, mixing Care Bears with Tron. It may take a couple days to get approved but please check it out, and, if you like it vote it up via the link below!