2x2: Seattle Street Art PHOTOS

2x2: Seattle Street Art was a hit! Nice meeting all the people that participated. If you did not see the show i posted some photos of my work. The Big painted rat and all the little drawings of rats having good times are mine. I hope to make a little zine about the rat store in the future. I like zines. (The first photo i took from Slightly Norths Flickr page, thanks)

ECO LINE website teaser

Eco Line website teaser is live!
http://www.ecolinepaint.com/

I made this little coming soon page to get the info out for Eco Line. It basically mirrored the business cards I made for them. I will be working on the full site after the New Year.
Happy when a plan comes into effect!

One Ball Jay catalog session

Just got back from a serious catalog session with Matt at One Ball Jay. This is how the conversation went Friday night at 5:30 PM.
“Ring-Ring, hey Shawn, Matt here at One Ball. Can you come down to my house and help me crank out our winter 07-08 catalog by Monday afternoon, sorry for the late notice!?”

Yup, that’s how it went down. 35 hours, 68 pages later in 2.5 days we finished business! This was my second One Ball Jay catalog in the past few years. They do what they want! One Ball Jay is great, founded by Matt as a surf wax project as a teenager. Then he figured out how to make the first snowboard wax at the dawn of the snowboard age. A true DIY’er! Buy his all his products! Check out his site here!

ECO LINE

Just finished up a logo for ECO LINE Painting and Home Project Management.
I am feeling pretty darn happy with the end result of this one.

ECO LINE is a new company formed by some friends of mine with green-minded painting and building sense. Located in Ballard, they wanted the design of the logo to look industrial to celebrate the blue collar Ballard pride with a hint of green leaf to show the ECO friendly company minded goals. The future is looking good! I will be working on a full package for this company next.

Capita Snowboards First Kiss

Capita Snowboards put out their first full length DVD, First Kiss.
Inside the packaging is a book titled, Capita Super Corporation; Corporate Handbook. Filled with little art sections done by various artist, designers, photographers, and people communicating random thoughts. Blue asked me if I would do a page and I was happy to do it. Capita is a great free thinking, independent, and progressive company.


As a funny joke my lady got me a pack of nudy girls playing cards a while ago. I thought it would be interesting to take a few choice ones to a copy machine and get crazy with the halftones. This one in particular had a really strong glare after I played with the darkness/lightness functions on the photocopy machine. A while back I had some bug designs I was doing for a shirt for Marginal Way. These little creepy crawlers where meant to be on this I think. A large screen print would be ideal one day. Maybe?

Dirty Thumbnails!

Started a new project with a green painting company a few weeks ago. I will be doing the whole identity system and the frontend graphics for the website, yeah! Which brings me to the above photo of my thumbnails for the logo. Saved a bunch of time drawing on and off for a few days then showing them to the green painting people. Right off the start they liked some, didn’t like others. That started a conversation of more green ideas. Way less of a headache then spending time on the machine (computer) with ideas that wouldn’t float. Next week I will post a few of the logos I am working with. It’s looking good so far.

SODO DIY

A few months back when I set up a new skateboard deck I always try to put something on the grip to make it my own. Our park, Marginal Way is located in the industrial part of Seattle know as the SODO District. Here is a link to the origin of the word "DIY" if you don't know.



Bold type and lighting bolt, fits the area I think. It's fun making stencils, bring them to the park, and letting your buds put them on their boards also. I sprayed the stencil on a wooded ramp at our park and some kid wrote under it, "CD DIY". Maybe something is happening there too?

Rose and skull, Wedding Invitations

Our friends Dawn and Todd are pretty cool people with some funny ideas on how to get hitched. Todd is the owner of Zero Zero Hair on Capital Hill. Every year they have some pretty crazy Halloween party’s so I wanted to help them out with this. Plus it’s not everyday that you can draw some bloody roses and skulls for a wedding invitation.
Originally they had plans to get them screen printed at my neighborhood screen printer, D and L but they where on a budget and time constrictions. So we went the easier path and had them printed at Stinko’s for a fair price.

I like the Internet for photo reference, definitely a big fan of hunting down cool books. But for a spot drawing the Internet is rad. First loose sketch, tracing paper, tracing paper, more tracing, and some beer (it was a Saturday people, seriously). A little back and forth with Dawn on the copy and there you have it. Not a bad way to doing something cool for some friends.

The Fun House Presents: Marginal Way Skatepark Weekend Benefit + Mini Ramp Jam.

I finished this poster last week for our local Seattle D.I.Y. project, Marginal Way Skatepark. Since the birth of our park I have taken on the role of working on the promotional stuff for the events. Posters, handbills, tee graphics, stickers, banners, web images, etc. which is cool cause it has given me a chance to experiment with different styles of illustration and also to work on something that I truly can stand behind. It's all for the love of doing something fun to break up the daily routines.


So part of my blog is to let people know how I got to the end result, cause sometimes the best stuff is the middle. I got some inspiration from hanging out with my bud Dan. He and his lady have TONS of retro stuff around their house (in fact she is garage sale hawk). So being that the event was at The Fun House and skaters like BEER (especially Marginal Way supporters)! I thought that this image of this little guy sleeping in a corner would be a great way to start the poster out on the right foot.


I don't have a printer at home right now (really funny, thanks Kinko’s in Ballard) and finding a drunken skater for reference for my illustration could be hard to come by (well...maybe I could have just went down to Marginal to find one of our friends asleep, but this was late at night after my 9-5 contracting hours). Anyways, I like digit cams for this stuff. Set up a few bottles and the aid of my lady to snap a photo.... I was my own model for this illustration.



Tombo markers (my fav pens right now), tracing paper, and a light table.