The Flakes Keep Falling.

I have been keeping super busy as of late with ideas and sketching and just revamping the bedtime monsters. Here is a few of what I have been doing.

Prep for a felt applique.
All cut out and ready to apply.
Final all pressed and attached to the hoodie. Yea Niro on the left chest!

Started to paint a few canvases the other day.
Up top a final sketch for a banner logo all inked and ready to be scanned into the computer for final touch.
Also started to prep a pair of Vans for a bedtime monster touch.

I will update when things are compleated.

My 29th On The 22nd.

I recently made it to my 29th year of life (thanks Mum and Dad) It happened to fall on Saturday this year so I had to make the best of it for sure.

I got to sleep in and get woken up by Aiden and fresh strawberry french toast and ham and eggs.
Then a little gift opening. So stoked on the gifts that Meg suprized me with.
I got two table tennis training manuals to help out in learning better skills. and an amazing rotary tool from Olfa that cuts perfect circles. (side note: Meg really had to search to find this, thanks love)
Most of the day I spent working on an appliqué for one of my hoodies that I have. (I'll post about that later)
At around 5:30 or so I had planned to go up to LA to visit on of my fave shops and check on an art / studio opening and realized that we should go to my favorite restaurant ever, C&O's, up in Venice. They have 2 locations on the same street but we have never been to the newer location so we decided to try it cause the original location is always super busy. SO stoked, we called at 6 for a reservation for the 2 of us plus the little one and we got one for 6:30 so when we got there we just walked right in to our seat. And of course I got the regular for me, Penne al Fumo
Smoked Mozzarella, Cream, Fresh Roma Tomato, Sweet Basil and Roasted Eggplant with artichoke harts, chicken, and asparagus as an add on for me. So Good!!


It only took us 45min at C&O's so we still had a good hour to go up to my favorite shop, Giant Robot, before they closed for the night.
On our way to Giant Robot we had to drive by our old appartment building in LA... THat was some good times there. I miss LA sometimes. *sigh*

After GR we worked our way home via the 10 freeway and stopped off down town LA to check out sum art.
Poketo was having an art / studio opening at their new digs. It was a nice place and a good end to a really great day. Thanks Meg for the support and love.

Too Much Fun

Don't ask me how I fall into things on the net but this is awesome! BusSelecta.com is a web site that lets you do layouts of classic VW's and Porsche's. Select what model you what to work on and then with drop down menues you mock up the look you want. Color, wheels, bumpers and even how low you want to drop the suspension. After all is said and done print it out and paste it to your fridge... What a great way to pass the time... at work. Have fun.

On Point.

So just stumbled onto Noferin... From what I can gather they are a couple out in AZ (Australia)
that make good art and wooded toys of their characters. The wooden toys are awesome! They are hand made and hand painted and are true works of art.
Check them out. Also look at their flickr site as well lots of behind the making stuff.

Scratch Scratch.

I am scratching and scratching... Hopefully something will come of it........

More Inspo.

Today I thought I would share a few illustrators that I like. I will not go into detail just share a few of their work and a link to their web sites and let you do more research on them if you like. I know not very descriptive just, I see, I like and now I share. No deep thoughts on how I feel or whatever. So enjoy.

Nate Willams. and here is a podcast with him if you like.



Sara Fanelli



Seonna Hong

Shag


Gery Taxali

Well that is just a few I have way to many to list that I like... SO go and look them up and then go make something on your own and be a creative!