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The building that houses my studio also has a mural-only space in the entryway called the Ephemeral Gallery. A different artist comes in each month to paint a mural on this 15 by 8 foot wall space, and at the end of each month, it gets whitewashed. I got asked to do it for February, and finished it all in about 7 hours yesterday.

The phrase came from a conversation I had with a friend last week. We were discussing how many friends we both had who are artists, craftspeople, small business owners, and how we really try to support them when we can and that we sincerely wished that everyone we knew could be famous for what it is they do. That sentiment seemed appropriate for a building full of creative offices.

Here I am hard a t work. Photo by Sarah Oleksyk.

If you happen to be in Portland, it will be up the rest of the month at 412 NW Couch St. It’s right by the entryway doors, so you can even see it well at night if you come by and the doors are locked.

Progress shots and whatnot are up on my Flickr.

The Independent Publishing Resource Center has recently acquired an additional room, directly across the hall from the rest of the Center. I volunteered to paint a lettered piece above the door in the new room, which will be used as an art gallery, classroom, and for perfect binding, which I supervise. I spend at least one day a week in this room, so it was important to me to be able to leave my mark on it a little bit.

It’s still a work in progress, but it’s at a nice pause point right now, so I thought I’d share.

That’s right, it’s got gold leaf! I spare nothing when it comes to the IPRC. Just a few more spots to brush away.

The gold is clean and the lettering can begin. I used a mix of latex and acrylics.

Lettering blocked in.

Outline ribbon, add shadow, erase pencils, sign, date, and we’re good! Sometime soon, I will fully finish it by lettering “Portland, Oregon” in the upper corners, but I like it where it’s at now too.

The two larger spots on either side of the door are currently being painted by the wonderful Lori D.

This is what I do when I’m bored at lunch. Usually I just write little lists of words in series, changing a single letter as the words progress, or playing around with spelling or simple phrases, but since this wordplay was a little more fancy-looking than usual, I thought it would be appropriate for Typo Friday this week.

Just playing around with a phrase that’s been running through my head lately. I watched a biography of Ben Franklin a few weeks ago and it informed me that on the earliest paper money in Philadelphia, which Ben Franklin printed himself, the phrase “to counterfeit is death” appeared. (See below) He also made copper plates of actual leaves and their unique vein structure as another deterrent to would-be counterfeiters.

Here’s another piece for my illustrated rules to live by sort of book that I’m making as part of my self-promo pack. This is the third of eight or ten. I posted the first two a week or so ago if you missed them.

The actual wording of the suggested rule is that everyone should own at least one pair of cowboy boots, but “get some cowboy boots” just has a much better ring to it.

Whoa, dang, it’s my first cover! I was commissioned to illustrate the cover and hand-letter the headline for this week’s issue of Willamette Week, one of Portland’s free weekly papers. It’s so exciting to see my work staring out from newspaper boxes around the city!

The article it illustrates is about Wieden + Kennedy, an international ad agency based in Portland, launching a new idea, Wieden + Kennedy Entertainment, in which they create entertainment content first and look for ways to make it worth their time and money afterward. The WKE team is currently headed up by Aaron Rose, the man who put together Beautiful Losers. That’s Aaron on the cover, illustrated as a 1950’s pitch-man, which is actually pretty easy because he wears a hat like that all the time, seriously.

I’m working on a very big alphabet book-style project for my senior thesis at PNCA. That won’t be done until May 2010 when I graduate. To get in the swing of things, I’m doing some quick black and white alphabet illustrations whenever I find the time. Mostly inspired by things I like, iconic things in my head, etc; glorified doodles pretty much. If I like them when I’m done I may bind them into a little zine perhaps. Here are the first two to get started.

For this week’s Typo Friday, I thought I’d show you the next piece in my “rules to live by” book which I started posting on Monday. I had a good time trying to recreate the look of ballpoint on faded notebook paper, using no actual notebook paper and only grayscale scans of some ballpoint scratches; otherwise it’s finished the same way I do all my illustration work.

I turned one ballpoint scribble into a brush in Photoshop, and while doing some experimenting, came upon a custom brush setting that makes a really wonderful, soft, crosshatching effect that I will almost definitely use for something soon.

I wasn’t sure how much I liked the doodled version right away, so I made another “clean” version without the doodles. It also just so happens to be available as a high quality print in my Etsy store.

I also just added a Fan Page for my art and comics and such on the Facebook. Feel free to become a fan, if you’re into that sort of thing.

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Because I’m a senior this year, I have access to cheap studio space through my school. I opted to take it so I could work on some large panels for an upcoming show. Most spaces in the studio building at PNCA are essentially large cubicles, but I am in a larger space shared by four other people and no walls to separate us, which I like a lot better.

Last night, however, I felt the place looked a little too stark and white, so I decided to work on my walls a bit instead. My space is right by the front door of the studio building, so everyone will see this as they leave. There’s also an upper floor that looks down into my space; hopefully they like it. I know for sure it has already tricked a few folks into actually looking up to the ceiling.

Speaking of being a senior… that means I’m also working on my final thesis project. I haven’t brought it up here yet, but you’ll be seeing a lot in the coming months. I can say this right now: it involves a personal exploration of facial hair, which may sound funny at first, but for any of you that actually know me, you realize it’s a topic I take very seriously.

But, I’m showing you this awful Photobooth picture for a reason (not just to show off my sweet new glasses). I was issued a challenge, sort of. I will propose my thesis idea to a panel of teachers this December, and will give the final presentation of the work almost exactly six months from today. Due to the theme of my project, my thesis instructor informed me yesterday that I cannot shave for the next six months, but then have to show up with something spectacular for my presentation. That’s my kind of challenge, and hey, if it’s good enough for Alec Longstreth, it’s good enough for me. Unlike Alec though, I will not be completely shaven down at the start; I’m keeping the ’stache cause it’s hard to sell moustache wax without it.

This is the final for the first assignment in my illustration class this semester at Pacific Northwest College of Art. The assignment was to create a gender-specific image to be used for advertising. It just so happens that I already had a gender-specific product ready to be advertised, Man’s Face Stuff.

This was a fun illustration do do because I’ve been looking for more ways to integrate my character-based illustration with my hand-lettering; I feel like the two worlds are a little too separated at times. I really struggled in the early concept stages to come up with an image that made for a good illustration, and not something that would be better accomplished through photography. I finally stumbled onto this concept through the help of my instructor, and a raging sketch session after about 5 cups of coffee a few days later.

Also, one last bit of goodness about the Small Press Expo: I was sort of interviewed (or at least asked to talk about myself) while at my table there, and it’s all up on the YouTube! Watch me and marvel at how clean my fingernails are!

Lastly, for those of you in Portland, I will be speaking about my experiences with Etsy and the DIY community, and also introducing the main speaker, Etsy’s Matt Stinchcomb, at the “Digitally Building the DIY Community” talk at the Cyan Building tonight. The talk starts at 5:30pm, and is free and open to the public; you should come on by. The Cyan Building is located at 1720 SW 4th Ave in Portland.