Category: Behind the Scenes
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Making lemonade
Photo by Jessica Spring Jessica has been churning out a crop of lemonade journals lately, including some fun new ones from the outtakes of our Focal Point print. Look for them soon in the shop!
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Letter up
I’ve been working on a super-fun lettering commission lately, which has been giving my paintbrush plenty of exercise. My client gets to see the finished paintings first, but once she does, I’ll post them here. More soon!
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Making the cut
Much as I’d love them to be done by now, there’s still about a zillion flats to be cut for my Local Conditions book. I can’t do them all in one go—all that hand-Xacto-knifing is really hard on your hands. So I fit the cutting in wherever I can, whenever I need a break from…
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Water off a goose’s back
Don’t be distracted by Ric’s smile—see the puddles everywhere? See the winter gear people are wearing? Sunday was the craziest Wayzgoose yet, hands down. That’s because we had both the biggest crowd ever and the worst weather imaginable. So that smile is one of triumph: getting a decent steamroller print that day required beating some…
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Done and dusted
The carving is done, and we can’t wait to show you the finished product. See you at the Wayzgoose on Sunday!
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Version 10.0
Here we are: year ten. Since the time Jessica Spring founded the Tacoma Wayzgoose all those years ago, it’s become one heckuva beast—and a veritable Tacoma institution. So here are a few sneak peeks of the giant linoleum block Jessica and I are carving—and we’ll reveal all on Sunday: 10th Annual Tacoma Wayzgoose Sunday, April…
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Quite a handful
I picked up a whole passel of display fixtures this week—just in case I need a helping hand (or 12) at my next craft fair table…
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Hedge trimmings
Look! I made an alphabet! It’s funny—I almost never design an entire alphabet. In general, lettering projects just don’t really work like that. Most of the time, a letterer(erer) designs only the letterforms required for the word or phrase they’re lettering. That’s really the best way to create letter styles (which are not the same…
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Jellied delights
You already know I have a thing for absurd, elaborate, apocalypse-resistant desserts. I took an afternoon “off” from my normal studio work to play around with various silly things, and this ended up being the theme. I think it’s sort of an illustrator’s version of happy hour, I suppose…
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Focal Point
If you earn your living by drawing pictures, you have to spend a lot of time with your head down and your eyes on your paper. Yet at this time of year, with spring coming along fast (at least in the Northwest…), life hurries by at a frantic pace. I hate the idea of missing…