fresh art--fire red rocks!

Speedball's "Fire Red" is the real deal. Deep, rich and very opaque--if you go for that sort of thing!

Candy Land

Have you popped into Powell's Candy Store? It is on the main drag in Lafayette and it is dreamy. Not only do they carry just what the kiddies love but they also have incredible gelato. If you need a kid-centric activity for one of these long summer days, head through the tunnel and check it out. Oh, and bring me a bag of Bit O'Honey--dental work be damned!

"Hot" Background

Here are the process shots of the new "hot" background. I call it hot because it is a way enlarged image taken from an old 1950's Heat Exchanger Manual. It features air molecules heated and cooled and bouncing all around in a delicious friction soup. I don't know what the hell it all means but I love the design elements.

the tomato

Our foggy Berkeley weather seems to have squelched our tomato plants. On each plant hangs exactly one tomato. One lonely green tomato. Perhaps it is too early in the season to worry.

Sticker Nation

Do you know about Stickernation? It is a great resource for all kinds of custom stickers. It would be fun to do a bumper sticker as a party invitation and stick it to a doodle of an old bumper. Remember Peechee folders? The old dirty yellow paper files with the weirdo sports drawings on them? Great place for a sticker.

This is a picture of the mini bumper sticker I had made to include with my screen prints. The font is called "cat scratch"-- oh lordy, I love it!

www.stickernation.com

Birds-revisited

I read somewhere on the internet that bird art is totally over and so "last week"--what does that say about me? My bird urges are still going strong. I am considering a rework of the bird & house thing. More graphic less homespun. I saw a great graffiti black bird swooping down against a dribble of orange paint. Street birds a go-go!

Joel's roses

Mike's guitar and rowing buddy, Joel, brought us a jar full of these crazy, candy-cane colored roses. They almost look fake with their gaudy, show-offy red and white splatters. I love real garden roses. Lusty and disorganized.