Creative process

Recently I dropped a couple of bucks to pick up a pack of translucent plastic sheets and I've been a busy little bee ever since: yes, I have officially discovered the thoroughly enjoyable art of stenciling! My fingertips are developing all-new calluses from cutting out the stencils with a knife, I've added some new paint stains to no less than three shirts, and I'm starting to run low on paint — life doesn't get much better than this. There may even be a tutorial on the way...

Look forward to seeing some spiffy new stenciled designs that will soon be gracing the journals/sketchbooks in my Etsy store.

In the meantime, you should check out the Stencil Revolution boards for some of the most astonishing stencil talent I've ever seen on the web — and for pure inspiration, go drool over the legendary Banksy.

Friday Dogs: Nose

I've really been having trouble keeping up with posts lately - sorry. There's no internet at home and that makes things tough sometimes. I present today, for your consideration, a nose. While some say that the cognitive functioning of a canine is located in the brain, in truth it is located precisely here.

Put the fun between your legs.

A little design I did for the hell of it. I tried to think of a more original phrase to put at the bottom, but in the end, it was 3-something in the morning and I just wanted to go to bed.

Please do not claim, alter, distribute, etc. Click for full size.

Friday dogs: Scoops

Scoops (also called Snookums, Scooper Dooper, and Poop Scoop) is a bichon frise, owned and very much doted on by my former coworker Karen Hollish. She named him Scoops as a cutesy homage to her career in journalism — as in, "What's the scoop?"