Like An Archeological Dig

 

One of the best things about Cali is Indoor Outdoor Living.  The doors are always open, the in is out, the out is in.  The first iteration of the studio bathroom floor, Annie stenciled various leaves on the lightly dirty color of the bare concrete.  That came from the real leaves that get blown into the studio and stay for awhile until swept up.  She wanted that same feeling in the bathroom.

It was a time for a change.

Four color “silkscreen-y” tile look.  Painted with the fingerbrush.

There was to be a border that separated the wall from the floor.

The last tiles done.

At the last moment, the border was scraped off.  Not all of it.  It’s ragged.  The floor’s got this feeling now of an archeological excavation.  A reveal of past layers.

In another iteration.  Courtyard needed to be finished with a tiny roof.

Beginnings of a copper gutter for it.

Random artifacts from the recent digs here at 3003

Housemade pasta

One person’s 4th of July fireworks that he blew off in the middle of the intersection across the street from 3003.

Skylight light in the back building.

Did a run of a wood engraved block on the Vandercook at Aesthetic Union in SF. 

Outside the shop

Inside the shop

Beginning to sign the run.  Print of a photo shot in Santiago, Chile

Bonus pics!

Horsehair from a Sierra Nevada pack horse, abalone shell from Westport, Ca.

A flower from the onion family

Assortment

 No unifying thread here between groups of photos.

Hopefully a beginning photo of a major project.  Projected finish date in November.

More detail photos of the Spring Collection of MU.  Response has been tepid from the public so the company might be going into dormancy until the public’s sense of style catches up.

The PK Trio, another night of pure jam.

Most of the time, the various parts of my drums have objects on them to modify the sound.

And now for a very novel use of the WoodRat.  Decided to chuck in a 30 degree V Bit and cut a border around a wood engraved block.  No problem with cutting it by hand but I thought What The Hell, let’s go using the eye and hand with a different tool.

Kinda hard to get the camera in there, but V Bit ready to cut the block.

Block with border right outta the WoodRat.

Wood engraving tools, block inked up and first pull out of the press.

This is from a painting I saw in a bar in Bordeaux, France in February.

And Now To Suit Our Great Computer,***

 I present my new exclusive Spring Line!

Or at least some teaser photos.  Waiting to be officially invited to Paris Fashion Week.

Fabric

Pattern drafting work

Shirt one

Shirt two

Bonus pic.  Roasting chilies for a Posole Soup.

***Ripped off from a Moody Blues song