Category Archives: Art

So close, yet so far.

Finally, I have completed my Marching Babies project! Instead of silk screening them, I decided to make stencils, as shown above.

Cue in my piece of driftwood barn board that we found on the beach and now we have a lovely little piece resting on top of two plan old screws.

Here is an artsy close up:

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Dave wrote a play!! And I made some concept art for it!

Amongst the few things Dave had stored in Chicago, was a glass jar of tiny plastic dolls. As soon as I got my hands on those little babies I knew I wanted to make a mobile with them. Now they swing slowly in the wind over our kitchen sink, creeping out all of our house guests.

Damn that 1% makes the other 99% so easy to ignore.

Over my desk I made myself a little wall of inspiration! I have shout outs to NY, art by Nate Kassel and Dave D, pictures of my parents and sisters, keys that I have found and some stuff I thought looked cool. It made a nice little installation.

In church one day, I believe it was the Day of the Dead, they were celebrating with images of skeletons everywhere. I began to think about cartoon skeletons – then about baby skeletons – and how interesting a line of marching skeleton babies would look (my mind seems to wonder rapidly in church).

And so began the marching baby skeleton sketches!

After much tweaking I came up with two little dudes. This being one of them!
Cute dead baby! Now to get a bunch of them in a line…

Now I’m going to put the above image on a screen and print them on a vintage piece of barn board – part two coming soon!

I always forget something at home whenever I go out. So I decided to make an eye chart reminding me of my essentials. I had it printed at Staples on legal paper, tea stained it and hung it up!

Now it’s a classy way to not be such a mess.

One of my favorite parts of making a new website is a new logo! Here’s how my new one came to be, along with a brief history.

Back in early S&C days, I had this simple banner:

The cupcakes are all thanks to the great Natalie Dee.

After a year or so, I wanted to spice it up a bit. I came up with putting myself into a cupcake wrapper. My homeslice Darold Delaney (follow him @thebreakfastprogram.com) was drawing her for me:

LOVED IT! But being the slackers we are we never got around to finishing it, so I came up with this!

I freakin’ loved drawing those dirty cupcakes.

Next was:

Completely on a different path but I was real proud of myself for this one. I was becoming better at designing and creating my own graphics.

When making this new site, I didn’t really know what direction to go in. And then I saw it, right on the pages of Playboy:

What!? A sign! I had to finally put myself in the cupcake wrapper!

With that as my inspiration I came up with this sketch.

Of course, she’s wearing my favorite black boots and white tee. Add along my John Hancock and there you have it! A site is born.