Quiksilver Tees

So these t-shirts (or color variants thereof) won't be in stores until Spring 2013, but I'm excited to share them. Really great working with Quiksilver! 

Trash Metal, on its way.

My new years' resolution was to delve into a new medium, and hopefully make it into a mini-business.  I have always loved making my own jewelry, though I had never considered making enough to sell.

I have been working with pewter, trying my hand at metal casting. I've also been plucking bones out of owl pellets, which is a tedious but fascinating task.

Coming together, slowly but surely. Many more Trash Metal posts to come in the future.  I add little snapshots like the ones above to my instagram (http://statigr.am/maatleycrue) on a regular basis, so check that out if you're able.

Carcass Week!

What a hectic month I've had! First of all, my boy and I've moved into a new apartment, and moving commanded most of my time these past couple weeks. The apartment came with an adorable cat who was left there (hrmph) by her previous owner. I re-named her Bird... she chirps sometimes.



Last week I completed a t-shirt design based on a news article. The article can be viewed here. What's believed to be the world's oldest cemetery was found in Jordan, and archaeologists found fox remains buried next to the human remains, and were treated similarly. This led scientists to believe that the foxes may have been kept as pets.


Larger View

Based on this project and the items we moved into her apartment, Bird probably noticed our fascination with skeletons, oddities and the like. The day after Valentine's Day she gave us a gift: a tiny dead mouse!



She must have known it was the perfect size for the piece I am currently working on for Thesis. I've never tried taxidermy before, but the internet gives you pretty easy step-by-step instructions. I've been a vegetarian for several years now, so it took about an hour to muster up the courage to make the first cut... but after that it was surprisingly easy.





i've spared you the gory details. the second one is for scale... I'd have to say it would probably be easier to stuff a bigger mouse, but I took what I was given. In a future post, I'll show you what this little guy gets used for.

Scooter and Carl Do Cincinnati

 Last Spring semester I had the pleasure of doing an independent study with Ted McGrath, and he helped me to make these "action figures." They are more like sculptures, or mock-ups for vinyl toys that will likely never be.  They are based on a series of ten collage sketches I did earlier in the year... other characters like "Dr. Singh, Male Gynocologist" and "Ben the Lonely Spaceman" never made it to the third dimension. Scooter and Carl started like this:

And by the end of the semester, they became who they are today:



read the Carl's comic!



read Scooter's comic!


The figures and accessories are clay over wire armatures, with hand-sewn little shirts and clothes. The boxes were constructed of mat board and painted with goache and ink.


Scooter and Carl are currently en route to Cincinnati to see my friends at Static Age! They will be in a show called "Pairs," so if you are in the area, go check it out! Scooter and Carl are just for looks, but I'll have things for sale there too.

I'll leave you with this GIF I made when I was sculpting Scooter's skinny nude body:

Gallery-quality giclée prints fom inPRNT!

I've decided to try to sell some things on inPRINT! Only one print up now, but more to come very soon!

Art Market!

The semester is finally over, and I could not be more excited to be sitting around and relaxing today. I have been super busy these past couple weeks.  Art market went incredibly well!  I am officially sold out of ewok shirts. I got screenprints of the Wanderin' Mind from Chris at Apothem Prints, and my new friends at Southpaw Prints!  People were surprised to find out they were screenprinted because they said they looked too perfect!

I still have several left, so feel free to email me if you want one. Five color screenprint, $30!

I also sold some zines, and the wrestler cards from my previous post! They went over way better than I expected. I still have a couple packs of these left as well (but just a couple) so get them while you can!

Hand scored and folded, and cropped. Oof!

The cards also got a mention on Public School, and they definitely said some nice things about them! So overall, Art Market was a big success. I'm glad alumni can participate... I might have to do it again next year!

Words of Wisdom

So, I've been working on these cards for weeks now. They are just for fun, not class, but I'm selling them at school. Packs of greeting cards, five in each pack! The cards will be banded together with a little cardstock belt:















Pretty excited about how they turned out! The colors are a good bit more acidic on the screen than they will be once I get them printed tomorrow.  I'll have them ready for MICA Art Market on the 8th.

Time for bed. I think I've driven myself insane looking at nothing but these screaming men for the past 48 hours.

E. Wok T. Shirts! ...(T. Rex rules)

Hot off the presses, just got my shirts from Scott Archer, and they turned out great!

A big 'ol print on soft 100% cotton shirts.

The blue is for the ladies, natural for the dudes. I only had one mannequin (of the busty female variety) so guys, no worries, this shirt doesn't actually give the illusion of DD breasts.

Come pick one up at MICA's Art Market, Dec. 8-11!

Ewok Shirts!

People seemed to really like my "Motivational Ewok" drawing from my Star Wars-themed project from a few months back. So I'm going to get some shirts printed for Art Market!

They will be available on sky blue for the ladies, and a 'natural' colored shirt for you dudes:

    

:)

High Grounds Coffee Label

Last semester I took a class called Handletters. We were given an assignment to design a hand-lettered and illustrated coffee label for a locally-owned Baltimore coffee roaster, High Grounds.

My design was chosen to be printed on their coffee bags,

and they are now on sale at two Whole Foods stores in Baltimore!

Click to enlarge!

I was so excited, I had to take a picture of my bag on the shelf in the store!

There was only one of my design left (I guess that's good) and I bought it.
Hopefully they'll restock soon!

I brought the bag home and immediately put it in the freezer, next to some tater tots:

Mmmmm, coffee.