Posted in My Art Projects, You Must Be Kidding!, tagged coffee, illustration, illustration friday, left handedness, milk, pencil, sour, watercolor on July 4, 2008 | 5 Comments »
…although, with the amount of coffee we consume, I don’t think creamer has ever soured in our house. I also wanted to portray what a right-handed person would see when holding a cup designed for a left-hander. I’ve had this silly cup for 22 years, purchased on Fisherman’s Wharf in S.F. at the left-handers’ store.
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Silly thing available on the Internet that is still interesting enough to try yourself: Wordle
Here is a word cloud of the front page of my blog. Useless, I know, but fun to do. I like to think it is as my own version of magnetic poetry.
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Can’t you smell that smell?
Wow, I just quoted lyrics by Lynyrd Skynyrd! Never thought I’d do that.
Every June we are visited by this crazy, bad smell of death. Oh, it’s just our amorphophallus blooming! I am always stunned by how bad this flower smells and I even forget it is there until the breeze shifts. This [...]
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This makes me very happy!
Originally uploaded by wholeclothdesigns
I found this little nib of a pencil on the street. I have many questions: Who did it belong to? Did they only have the one pencil? Were they going to keep using it or did they toss it and that’s how I came across it? Did the [...]
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Encouraging No-No’s
Originally uploaded by jurvetson
I am interested in the interplay between hand-lettering and imagery. I found these drawings to be very exciting and I am devouring this book recommended byPenelope Dullaghan. I really like the chapter on the different items she collects. Maira Kalman’s book is loosely reminding me of this bookby Amy Rosenthal. My friend Jim gave [...]
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Posted in My Art Projects, You Must Be Kidding!, tagged art, humor, illustration friday, illustrations, ink, jokes, stick, watercolor on June 13, 2008 | 4 Comments »
While I think the theme of “punchline” is genius, I audibly groaned when I thought about what I should enter. Since a joke with a punchline is just as likely to inspire a groan than a laugh, here is my groaning punchline…. the only joke I can ever remember. I thought a simple illustrations would fit this very simple joke nicely.
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I started the Whole Cloth Designs blog on October 23, 2007. Well, 6 months have passed and I’ve had 10,000 visitors! My goodness, that is a big number. What started as a whim of a thought, “Hell, I’ll try to make a blog today” has turned into a wonderful part of my routine. A couple [...]
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Yesterday wasn’t so great. Mogs was in this seriously weird space that involved a lot, and I mean a lot, of shout-whining “Up! Up! Up!” After her nap, she just sat in my arms cry-whining. Before dinner it was a repetitive request for milk-whining. Then after dinner is was a sort of crazy-energy-you-can’t change my diaper-whining. [...]
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Inspired by all the mobiles I’ve seen being swapped around the crafty-world, I decided to finally finish the mobile for Mogs that I started a few months ago. I hand-felted the wool and carved up a branch from our Asian plum tree. (The patch on the wall is from a letterman’s jacket that I found at a [...]
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Rotavirus riot
That’s what our house is currently experiencing. We haven’t been tested or anything, but the signs and systems are very much present. I’ll spare you the details, sufficed it to say we have had a rough week. We hadn’t had any illness in the house in the past four months until–BLAMMO–now.
Beyond the gauzy film [...]
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