Klau-klau

Okay, I have to post this even though Matt's the brains behind it. We started a "screen printing collective" (yes, we decided you can have a two-person collective...) and this was our first project. Besides the fact that I know absolutely nothing about screen printing and am mainly concerned with Matt putting things that I draw onto t-shirts or tote bags, it went fairly well. Well, kind of. We got one good print out of it, anyway. But lesson learned and next time it will be much better...and isn't it more fun to learn by experience than by the book? That's what we're telling ourselves, anyway. So, I present to you: Klaus, the pacifier-sucking pug.



Otherwise known as Matt's profile photo on Facebook -



Kind of amazing, right? More amazing is that his friend's dog was actually sucking on a pacifier and does this kind of often. Did I mention how much I want a pug? Anyway, we're going to put these on Etsy once we make some decent prints...I hope people will want them. Who wouldn't, though? Pug!!!

gocco prints!

We keep forgetting to print out my Illustrator file so I can print it on our gocco (we don't have any ink for our printer) so I just drew the outlines instead with the carbon pen, just to be able to print something, and I really like how it turned out! We printed some blank cards that were laying around with the initial color - the pearlescent purple (it has a really pretty shimmer). When the color started wearing away, we added the fluorescent magenta so it has a cool double-color effect. The design is based on the Camellia flower but I think it looks more like a Chrysanthemum - my birth month's flower! - and it turned out looking rather East Asian-ish. I think it would be really cool to expand on that and print it in gold ink on red paper so it looks like a brocade. It looks really good on black. Gocco printing is so easy and fun...it almost makes me want to learn how to screen print for real!


I really love how it looks on newsprint, although I guess nobody would want to buy a print on newsprint, would they (?).


I like the idea of it in a pattern of some kind, too