So How's Your Defpovision?

Wow, hello, it's been way too long and I apologize!  Lots of things have been going on that has kept me from posting for awhile: personal and mechanical changes and upheavals, whoa!! But all is good and moving along just fine now.  It's good to have a little chaos now and then, I think.  For some reason this paragraph comes out in bold without my making it so! Wheeeee!!!!

On the art front, I've been busy, illustrating outreach and environmental education materials.  I am illustrating icons for one of my clients.  Icons!  I love icons, they're so...iconic. What is an icon anyhow? To me, something bold and bright, sometimes brash, that stands out, looks great on a t-shirt, poster, sign, etc. Because I used to silkscreen much, bold thick lines were a natural part of my images.  In fact, I used to have a business silkscreening t-shirts on re-used (and washed) cotton shirts.  I'd sell them on the big open street market that used to take place during "first Thursdays" in Pioneer Square, Seattle (before they shut it down).  The place was so damn thriving, filled with artists vendors, street performers and music.  Business was "brisk" and even if you didn't sell a thing, it was great to talk to passerbys and trade with other artists.  I'm not sure why it was eventually shut down, but something to do with the lack of business licenses among the artists and a generally self-regulated street market where artists kept 100% of sales.  It was thriving for more than 20 years before there were complaints from the art establishment and enough muscle to shut down a bustling scene that attracted many people to the blighted area.  Go figure.

I'd also sell at the monthly I Heart Rummage events in Seattle which still seems to be going strong.  Nowadays, I just want someone else to do the printing, publishing and distributing :)

Anyhow, I digress.  I'm working on these icons of recreational activities for New Yorkers and other visitors to the parks.  I thought for this post, I'd gather some of my past t-shirt designs and put them together for a one-pager "retrospective" (graphic at top of this post).  Click it to enlarge.  You can print this on a 8.5" by 11" piece of paper (use recycled or the back of used paper), hang on the wall and test your own defpovision!

Many many thanks again for the comments and emails and many many apologies for the long delay between posts! 

Til next time,

Keep enjoying summer cuz it's not over yet!!!!!!!