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I’ve been sick for most of the last two weeks so I haven’t really been posting much, but I’ve been keeping busy. I’ve been wearing western shirts almost exclusively since I was about 18, and lately I’ve been having a harder and harder time finding ones that I like that are also affordable. About six months ago, I bought myself a sewing pattern for western shirts, and this last week of sickness, snow, and cold in Portland was perfect to inspire me to make two of them!

The first shirt took way too long to make, and turned out a little wonky, but is still totally wearable.

This second one though, which is sort of flannel-y, turned out really well, and I’ve been wearing it a lot.

Because I’m a huge dork, I even made my own label for the second shirt.

I had also been meaning to organize my sewing materials for quite some time, so as a break from sewing one day, I cut up some dowels, and drilled out some old soda crate slats to make these two spool racks to hang on my wall near my sewing stuff.

Better almost late than never I suppose. I have had it in my head to make a tearaway shop-style calendar since I started working with the perfect binder at the IPRC, and on this the last day of 2009, here they are for 2010.

And now some process!

The base image of this dapper ghosty is a three-color screenprint on heavy cover stock. Also printed were some guides to help in calendar and hanging placement.

Now glue on the calendar part that you’ve had printed and bound for months as you’ve procrastinated on the rest of the project!

Stick ‘em all under your heaviest, most awesome book. Wait.

You’ve got calendars! You’ll notice I also put brass grommets on for hanging, instead of just punching a hole through the top. This should help it last all the way throughout the next year.

If you or someone you know needs to be reminded to be a little more dapper everyday, these are available in my Etsy shop.

If you know me, or this blog, you probably know that I really like facial hair, like REALLY, REALLY like it. I made this back in April, when I shaved to take part in Moustache May, but am only finally showing it because I just had the engraved metal bit made last week. Statistically, some people will find this absolutely horrifying, some will find it fascinating, some will completely understand why I did this, and some just won’t care either way I suppose. Only two people have been brave enough to actually touch it.

I won’t say too much else besides answering these two questions: yes, that’s really my hair, and yes, I plan to eventually have a trophy case or wall full of these, each one further tracking the color and shape of my various facial hair experiments over the years.

Alright, now I think I’m prepared to have a table, I just finished this sweet-ass fabric banner mere minutes ago. Look for it this weekend if you’re coming to the Portland Zine Symposium! Also featured in this photo, my moon landing paper, a giant cardboard/duct tape axe, and two of my four Jeremy Tinder paintings.

Here’s a very basic drawing of the four main BeardBots (as mentioned earlier). This is just to give an idea of the basic look and size relations of the first four bots. I’ll get more in depth on things in the coming weeks.

More in depth, like this! It’s a prototype plush doll of BeardBot #2! He’s about 8.5″ tall and cuddly as the dickens. For the school assignment that these are related to, I’m going to create some sort of finished piece or usage concept for each of these four, and perhaps a special #5 I’ve got in mind, so expect at least one painting, and some t-shirt designs and whatnot coming in the next week. BeardBots.com is still under construction, but one idea that I had a long time ago that has now merged into the whole BeardBot concept is the idea of custom BeardBots; you pick one of a few basic body shapes and whatever style of facial hair you’d like on your bot and I’d make a custom plush. Does that sound like a good idea to anybody out there?

A homemade printing press, plans courtesy of Ready Made Magazine. I’ve already pulled my first print on this and it turned out well. To give size reference, the metal posts on each side are two feet tall.

As I mentioned last week, due to this new press as well as an upcoming etching class, I am having a big sale on all of my older prints, all for $5 and available through my Etsy shop.

I’m making it my pre-New Year’s resolution to try to post here as much as possible before the end of 2007. It starts here:

Last week, I was fortunate enough to take a three-day bookbinding workshop at my school, instructed by my friend (and amazing artist) Seamus Heffernan. Over the course of the workshop (only like 1-2 hours a day), I was able to make this awesome, hardbound, 6″ by 9″, 76 page sketchbook, all by hand. I used actual, unused book cover material, from “2005 Oregon Revised Statutes” as my cover fabric. I feel like I’ll never need to buy another sketchbook again, and now I can actually fill one with paper I like, instead of relying on the default paper in most books. I think it will also give me a more personal connection to my future sketchbooks that I choose to construct myself, which I think can only help when it comes to filling its insides.

I recommend checking out Seamus’s site; besides knowing how to make a fine book, the dude can draw, comic, and paint his ass off, seriously. Maybe he can even make a book for you, I’m sure they’d make a lovely gift, what with the holidays fast approaching.

I don’t really like sketchbooks this small for project planning and the like, I’m more comfortable with something in the 8.5″ by 11″ size, but due to its portability, I plan on using this book only for drawings done from reference, either from life (something I need to get back into) or from photo reference (something I almost NEVER do, except to figure out a pose for something else).

(No relation to the other Tiny Showcase)

Long-time listeners may recall me mentioning a future group show that I was setting up, a show in which I hoped to include artists from all over the world. Well, I realized what a massive undertaking that would be, so I scrapped the idea and decided to only include people from my school, PNCA. Here’s the poster I made to get the word out. This probably took far longer than it’s actually worth, but I do so love to lettering (and drawing myself on items that will be seen in public).

I also made this little plush robot over the weekend; mostly for fun, but also as a prototype for some other plush bots I’ve got in the works.

I think I’ll sign all my future plush robots this way.

Here’s an illustration of mine that was in today’s Portland Mercury. The article it accompanies is about renters’ rights. In Portland, many apartment buildings are being converted into condos. The renters of those apartments get evicted, some on very short notice. There is a proposed law that would make the owner of the building pay the moving expenses of the renter if he/she was evicted for this reason.

Also, the last thing I will post about my new uke:

I really wanted to bike around to parks and play the thing, as well as take it on a trip I will be leaving for shortly, so I made a carrying case for it. It’s made from a pair of cargo pants that had been ripped. (My bike saddle has the reputation of ripping out the crotches of many a pair of pants; other than that, it’s perfect) I had been holding onto them for just such an occasion. I took a bunch of the pockets from the pants and re-sewed them onto the case, so it has two big pockets (one on either side) and three smaller ones for picks or spare change or other doo-dads. The shoulder strap is part of an old bike tube, a favorite material of mine lately. The tube makes the perfect strap, it’s made of very pliable rubber so it just sort of stretches itself to whatever size it needs to accomodate. You can’t see it in the photo, but the interior is lined with 1/4″ thick thermal fleece, the leftovers from Rembrandt’s hair.

There were a few requests to actually hear the uke so here’s a quick mp3. I apologize for the poor quality of my computer’s internal microphone and for the fact that I’ve only been playing ukulele for a few days. DOWNLOAD

I’ll be taking a little bit of a summer vacation for the next two weeks, so I probably won’t be posting much as I won’t have access to my scanner. I plan on having quite a bit of free time to finish up a few necessary projects and comics though, so I should have a glut of material to show you when I return.

That’s it, I am officially the proud owner of my own ukelele! Here are the specs: Spanish cedar body (cigar box), mahogany neck with a 14-fret, rosewood fretboard. It’s a baritone ukelele so it’s a bit lower in pitch than your average uke, but it’s tuned similar to a guitar, so as a guitar player, I’m finding it easier to wrap my head around playing chords on it. It plays like a dream too. I spent countless hours today in a coffeeshop, in a hammock, and generally just wandering around playing this thing. I have yet to give it a name but I think it deserves one, so if anyone has any ideas, lay ‘em on me!

Also, as I mentioned earlier, I’ve contributed a page to the upcoming Kid’s Book Project. 60 different artists are all creating one page of the story and all profits will be donated to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. The book is 20 pages in right now. I ended up getting page 8 and I’ll let you know right now that it is awesome. Here’s the catch, we need to get more people to pre-order the book now to make sure we can give a good amount to Make-A-Wish. If you could find it in your heart to order one (or more), that’d be swell. There are a lot of people attached to this project who are much cooler than I am so don’t let this opportunity to help out pass you by. Please click on the banner below for more info.

This post is dedicated to my good friend Liz, the first woman to teach me the true meaning of the word… ukelele.