my art show opens in NYC this saturday!

i was nominated for best DIY designer of 2010 by venus magazine (please vote for me!) (yay!!!)

i am in poppytalk handmade this month!

the exquisite book (i am in) is released tomorrow! (amazon link) *

my sparkling sea noteblock is available today! (amazon link)

my song is used in this video for the book “creative, inc”, a fantastic book about freelancing! coincidentally (completely) it is a song about when i first started freelancing.

and that is a little slice of what is new in my life these days!

* and totally star-struck that a project I participated in has anything to do with dave eggers, by the way.

check out this inspired & amazing use of my treetops journal on the SF MOMA blog!

also, it’s been awhile since the last Snoozer update, probably because there hasn’t been much to update. so here’s a sort of recent Snoozer song. It was recorded at the Habitat and my awesome friend Roy plays the drums on it.

new in the shop: lots of buttons! (see below) & lots of t-shirts! (see below) …a.k.a. lots of fun!

thanks for reading!

So is it April already?? a little birdie tells me you may or may not be able to find a painting by me produced as a limited edition print on Tiny Showcase tomorrow! And you may recognize it from over here! A portion of the proceeds from the print sales will benefit Project Wildlife, a wildlife rehabilitation non-profit here in San Diego that I have volunteered at.

New in the shop! Glass magnets of many sorts: like these and these & perhaps most exciting, my new collection of buttons produced by Badge Bomb over here! Some new giclee prints, t-shirts, and other fun things are new to the shop as well, enjoy!

Then, some upcoming events! On Sunday, April 25th I will be signing books & giving high fives at the LA Times Festival of Books at the Giant Robot booth (#360) from 3:00 – 4:30pm– More info over here on my facebook page! Then next month I will have some mini paintings in the Enormous Tiny Art show curated by Nahcotta in June, and a show with Kelly Tunstall in New York at Giant Robot in September. Good times.

Well this has become a very long update so now I’ll end it with a couple photos.
Thanks for keeping in touch!

If you’re in the LA area, I have work in a group show this Saturday, March 13th titled “Patchwork” at Giant Robot, a collection of small works on fabric. More info on the show here & attached is a sneak peek at my work in the show…

Today I updated the shop with tons of new stuff like these magnets & this art print & this hoodie. Check out all the latest additions: http://shop.boygirlparty.com

Also, thought this would be fun to share…it’s an illustration from the vaults. I created it a few years ago for a project where different artists were asked to create a portrait of a different president! I got first dibs on Lincoln (I am, after all, originally from the land of lincoln / illinois…) There was a lot of runaround on the project and the ball was dropped by the person putting it together (hey, it happens), so my illustration never went to print, but I just found the file on my computer the other day, so here it is for you to see many years later! Enjoy!

2010 has been off to a slow start as i battled some kind of flu, but this year promises lots of fun collaborations, shows and projects that i can’t wait to share! stay tuned for all kinds of exciting announcements soon. thanks for checking in on me and my little site!

here’s a snapshot from just one week ago, when i was making friends with sea lions on the galapagos islands:

This painting was created for “Verbatim”, a group art show at Nahcotta in Portsmouth, NH that opens tomorrow, January 5th with a reception on January 8th. Each artist was asked to create a painting based on and using a word that inspires them and motivates their work:

And here’s a recent commission I particularly loved working on!

* tomorrow is the last day to post a photo to the boygirlparty facebook group before 3 names are chosen to win gift certificates to the boygirlparty shop

* i will be away jan 5-16, 2010 and thus the shop will be closed during this time! orders placed before then will ship before then! very excited — it will be my first vacation in THREE YEARS! yikes!

wishing you all the best in 2010 & many thanks for reading and being so supportive of me + my artwork!

Thanks for everyone who came out to my craft shows here in California this past month! It rained both days but was fun nonetheless…see some photos on my facebook page!

Lastly, keep an eye out for one of my illustrations in the Dec 20th issue of the Boston Globe magazine. Here it is as a work in progress:

This weekend I added about 10 different styles of new shirts to the shop including two types of hooded sweatshirts. Snowy owl holiday cards are back in stock as well after their lightning fast sell out!

Lastly, throughout this month, please join my facebook group and post a photo of you with your favorite Boygirlparty product for a chance to win a gift certificate to my shop! There will be 3 winners and the contest ends 12/31/09, yay!

Thanks for reading!