A Gorgeous Shirt for your gorgeous CIVILIAN VALENTINE…

Got a couple of different valentine’s day shirts - and a couple of really nice cards.  NICE GIFT - on the back is this:  MY CIVILIAN VALENTINE   

Add comment January 31st, 2008

The NEWEST paper in frenchtown…here is the logo and criteria.

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• It will be a standard 8.5 x 11″ publication because I cannot seem to get started any other way.
• It will be printed by the Postal Annex, in Frenchtown
• 1000 copies for the first publication date of April 1 2008. 
• Deadline: March 15, 2008
• Submissions will only be allowed in PDF format  Black & White only
• emailed to thefrenchtowncivilian@civilianbasics.com 
• 8.25 ” wide  x  10.5 ” high.  BW PDF   $75.00
• 8.25″ wide   x   5.25″ high   BW PDF   $60.00 
• 4″  wide   x   2.5″   high       BW PDF   $40.00
• I will try to set up a PAYPAL button for this on my site this week.   Otherwise, a check or credit card is fine.  (Pay at Civilian.)
• Rememeber this publication has no sponsor, has not REAL advertisers, except you & me and everysone else & your content and WHATEVER you want with your pages.  I am not an editor, yet a manager, more or less.  
• The first publication is really test,  but we need a first publication.  You need to pay for this, as does EVERYONE ELSE, including me.    
• Let’s do this!!!!

1 comment January 28th, 2008

FROM THE BLOG OF DANNY SEO…

Here is work done at Civilian with Danny Seo… Check out his Blog… I recently found an image of a pencil sketch deer head that I really liked and have my local screen printer make a silkscreen for me. Here’s what the finished image looks like printed onto a reusable canvas shopping bag. Isn’t it cute?The process of doing custom screen printing is surprisingly easy and not expensive at all. The best thing to do is to find an image you love, have a screen made, and then print lots and lots of shirts, bags, and fabrics with the image. The real cost is all the set-up, not the actual printing, so it pays to be prepared and show up with an armload of things to print on.MORE AT HIS BLOG: http://www.dannyseo.typepad.com

Add comment January 17th, 2008

Dancing GUY on the CAR…

I’m getting kinda convinced that these spirits are everywhere just waiting to become visible through some natural/elemental occurance… This was an ice formation on my car captured before my defroster took it from sight.

1 comment January 16th, 2008

Ok.. so the phoenix was not necessarily born of ashes

BUT…I was struggling with the image of the Phoenix.. y’know the myth of the large eagle-like bird the was born from ashes, and then was consumed by fire and then again was reborn from the egg containing the ashes of its former self. So, it’s been used all over history, not that it diffuses the power of the myth, but actually, it reinforces it, I think. I have been committed to get back to painting every week, and this idea of being consumed by fire and then being reborn of the stuff, the remains, of the stuff that destroyed the life, is very fascinating. But anyway, in my most frustrated moment, I realized that my pallette was really tired and needed to be refreshed - y’know when everything looks vaguely purpley-brown - it’s time. When I place my dirty brush into the dirty bowl, the phoenix was born in the bowl - like an egg filled with ashes from the work of the day. OK… those of you who know me know that I am relatively pragmatic. This kind of thing does not usually make me all feeling connected to the ooey-gooey cosmic stuff of the universe when other people talk about it.. but man… you should been there. IT WAS AWESOME! Then - to top off the whole darn thing.. a Bald Eagle flew over my studio. In the 20 years I have been living here, I have not seen an eale with my own eyes.. so I thought that was , as Meg Ryan says .. “It was a Sign…”

2 comments January 16th, 2008