lemonade

2012-01-26T14:12:00.000-08:00

2012-01-25T07:42:00.000-08:00

i posted this around on my twitter yesterday, but here is a nice scanned version of an assignment for school. explore the secret life of a celebrity (LeBron James) in watercolour. i have to say, i really like him.

2012-01-17T09:14:00.000-08:00

PART TWO! are you ready for some baseball goods? i am the most excited about this man. his name is Rennie. he will be in the shop update as a print, and as part of a series of cool baseball people.

2012

2012-01-16T16:09:00.000-08:00

this will be my busiest year as an 'illustrator' ever. it's overwhelmingly exciting and stressful, but mostly exciting. soon enough you will see the big project i've been working on! until then, i would like to share with you the new pieces i have finished that will be for sale in my shop relaunch at the end of the month.

when i was working on the cat portrait commission, the rough paintings i made for it were all in bright colours to help me out figure stuff out. i'm not sure if it did help, but i fell in love with the results. this is dedicated to all my pals who prefer cats to dogs. stay tuned for more new stuff!

also, i have been invited to be a part of the love and rummage trunk sale happening on february 5th! come on out if you need to get some sweet for your honey, or if you need some honey for yourself, honey. honey honey.

2011

2011-12-31T16:10:00.000-08:00

the year my niece turned three.
the year i was hit by a car.
the year i was accepted to ocad for illustration.
the year i made amazing new pals. (deadweight, wuddup)
the year robber turned two.
the year i quit black dog (and it closed).
the year i grew some balls (not literally).
the year photoshop and illustrator didn't scare the shit out of me.
the year ron artest became metta world peace.
the year i figured things out a little bit more.
the year i ate a lot of ice cream sandwiches.
the year i loved a little bit more than the last.

2011-12-22T08:54:00.000-08:00

i made a new portfolio site and i made a new logo. do you like it? do you miss the old one? the facebook page has a different version.

2011-12-20T16:20:00.000-08:00

acid drops

2011-12-13T20:36:00.000-08:00

obviously this has to be featured on this blog!!

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in other news, happy holidays! my present to you this year is free worldwide shipping on everything in my shop until this friday december 16th! get on over there and pick up something for you or not you.

2011-12-07T11:40:00.000-08:00

around the web:

city of craft sponsor profile + become a fan of lemonade on facebook + d'angelo news

2011-12-06T07:20:00.000-08:00

happy belated birthday walt! via public school

2011-12-04T12:16:00.000-08:00

dream life

2011-12-03T09:23:00.000-08:00

boy, it's been busy. look at those festive cards! i made them, and they are for sale at Robber for $5 a pop. they are all drawn by hand (yes, i know) and come with a corresponding envelope. go get yourself one! i know for a fact that there are limited amounts left. thanks and i hope you like them!

(top two photos by Casie Brown)

2011-11-18T12:58:00.000-08:00

peep the new collaboration between deadweight and caboto, falconwright.

also i guest blogged my choices for city of craft 2011 over here.

2011-11-09T12:17:00.000-08:00

there are some amazing people out there.

2011-11-07T19:42:00.000-08:00

first of all, whoa big pictures on the blog! secondly, goddamn. this bag is by doug johnston and it's made from 200 ft of #6 100% cotton sash cord. whatever that means. mama wants.

2011-11-03T19:12:00.000-07:00

a month or two ago, an old friend asked for a cat portrait for her dude and their new house. now that it is safely in their hands i will share it with you.

it was pretty fun. i used gouache.

2011-10-31T11:36:00.000-07:00

just on the verge of starting the third month of my second degree, and it's pretty intense. mostly enjoyable. i have to keep a tumblr for one of my classes and someone asked me to share it so here i am, sharing. please ignore my horrible ramblings.

2011-10-16T09:21:00.000-07:00

been spending some time on the nieves site. that place is great.

2011-09-28T18:57:00.000-07:00

"Today the doorbell rang; it was little Peter. So I came out and sat on the front steps with him. I could sit by the hour listening to his prattling. He was jealous of Bob, asking in a small tight voice, "Who was that boy over your house? Who does he like best, Warren or you?" And then, "He called me pipsqueak. If you had a baby would you call him pipsqueak?" "I'm not tan," he continued. "It's dirt. I don't like the looks of dirt, but I like the feel of it. Clean doesn't feel good because you're all wet." He played with Warren. I went up to my room, and I heard a commotion outside. Peter had climbed to the level of the window in the little maple tree and was shaking the leaves down." - Journals of Sylvia Plath

2011-09-23T15:27:00.000-07:00

"I find it weird when I talk to people and they’re like, “Yeah, we went on a date, we went to this place, we got stuffed, we went home, we had sex,” and I’m like “Really?!” Because I know that if I eat a really big meal, and I feel terrible, I don’t feel sexual or good, or happy. I feel disgusting, I feel my heart beat in my stomach, so I’m mind-blown by people who seem unaffected by poor eating habits. I eat terribly a lot, but when you see like those guys in bands that are skinny and they’re sitting there eating like a really insane thing of food, and grease, and a bag of chips, and they’re Australian. And I wonder, do they feel just fine? Or do they feel like shit?" - Jason Schwartzman interviews Andrew Kuo for Bad Day

2011-09-20T16:56:00.001-07:00

hot dogs via life

2011-09-03T12:08:00.000-07:00

american classroom by catherine wagner

2011-08-19T13:39:00.000-07:00

robin cameron

the shop is open!

2011-08-17T09:51:00.000-07:00

THE SHOP IS OPEN! there is also a preview of the new logo to come which has just taken way too long. hope you like what you see.

2011-08-13T11:35:00.001-07:00

Bobbing along the waves of a deep blue sea, a weathered suitcase washes upon the shore. Eric, ever the sturdy surveyor, stumbles across a shimmering something or other. He ventures to open the pearl of a box and sees glistening jewels of the sea. Struck by the beauty of it all he vows to never let them leave his sight. Carrying the suitcase back to his motel he notices the address tag. Eric's world falls apart. Caitlyn rejoices. 8 necklaces will be for sale when the shop reopens on AUGUST 17th.

2011-08-07T12:12:00.001-07:00

dick proenneke

2011-08-07T11:31:00.000-07:00

nicholas haggard

2011-08-04T17:03:00.000-07:00

i got four days off of work, so i went away. this is me braiding badly, shot by my brother.

2011-08-02T09:14:00.001-07:00

this will be a part of my shop update soon!

2011-07-26T11:54:00.000-07:00

I've been very tardy with posting photos of the zine I put together back in May for the trunk show, but I have finally rectified the situation. 'Scribble Scrabble' is 10 pages, single sided, bound by me, and b/w! It will be part of goods for sale once I reopen my shop in August.

2011-07-18T08:27:00.000-07:00

Last night I was reading through GOOD's Designing Women feature and came across some great things. First up, Sarah Kissell.

2011-07-17T10:34:00.000-07:00

I think at this point it is safe to say that I really like Mike Perry's work. I just came across these photos and felt some serious pangs of jealousy.

2011-07-11T06:55:00.000-07:00

jon klassen is the best.

2011-07-08T13:57:00.001-07:00

barron & larcher 1931.

necklace clearout

2011-06-27T09:53:00.000-07:00

i only have two necklaces left and i would love for them to go to some good hands. if you would like one, send me an email at itwaslemonade [at] gmail.com. i am selling these for $15 each! update: all gone! thanks for the support!

beautiful photo by celine kim

2011-06-14T15:28:00.001-07:00

kate foley - refinery29

2011-06-06T13:20:00.000-07:00

juliet gorman is so unbelievably talented.

2011-05-28T13:53:00.000-07:00

I miss working at a video store, and having a space to rotate and organize my favourite films. A place where I could remember the best scenes, and organize them by the colours on the cover. These are the ones that have stayed with me:

- Norma Rae
- Shoot the Piano Player
- Loves of a Blonde
- Beautiful Losers
- Wet Hot American Summer
- Nobody Knows
- Spirit of the Beehive
- Vernon, Florida
- The Lovers
- The Thin Man series
- Cria Cuervos
- Billy the Kid
- Claire's Knee
- L'Enfance Nue
- Iron Giant
- Style Wars
- Badlands
- Moonstruck
- Close-Up
- Philadelphia Story
- Jules and Jim
- Murmur of the Heart
- Gates of Heaven
- Stolen Kisses
- Little Fugitive
- Brief Encounter
- A Nos Amours
- Fat Girl (I didn't really like this movie at all, but it's haunting scenes have stayed with me ever since I saw it. Especially the ending…)
- Still Walking

2011-05-28T13:51:00.000-07:00

sneak peak maayan pearl

2011-05-28T13:09:00.000-07:00

"To me, living with an animal gives you an everyday encounter with the all the things we don’t know and can’t control - with otherness. Being so close and such dear friends with a someone who doesn’t talk, who smells emotions, who lives in packs, who really lives under a whole different paradigm is sort of an everyday anti-depressant." - Mike Mills

2011-05-27T12:51:00.000-07:00

islets

2011-05-17T20:10:00.000-07:00

images of my table from the spring trunk show. i always forget my camera...

petra

becky

and here's an image from sandi of the goods she picked up on sunday. tucked behind petra's birthday card and kid icarus' card is the zine i made especially for the trunk show! it featured all new drawings, and was $8. pretty great.

2011-05-17T09:38:00.001-07:00

jon klassen

2011-05-16T15:25:00.000-07:00

hello sandwich

2011-05-16T14:21:00.000-07:00

life images

2011-05-16T13:30:00.000-07:00

- solitary arts

2011-05-16T12:53:00.000-07:00

"Have some commitment to what you're doing." - Geoff McFetridge via Huck

2011-05-11T10:39:00.000-07:00

image via life

2011-05-10T18:23:00.000-07:00

hey friends, this is just a note to let you know that i will be selling this sunday at the Workroom's trunk show! the new things that i will have for sale remain a mystery to not only you, but me also so you'll just have to come on out to find out! guaranteed goods for sale include: tote bags, drawings, as well as some vintage books, and rummage. lastly, i will be bringing the last SEVEN polyhedron necklaces that are remaining. i will be introducing some new jewelry this summer so this is the last time these will be for sale!

big thanks go out to becky and karyn for asking me to be a part of this show!

2011-05-03T20:24:00.000-07:00

jan avendano. found via petra!

2011-04-29T14:25:00.000-07:00

margart kilgallen via pbs

2011-04-23T13:36:00.000-07:00

ye rin mok. (katie did a great post about her here)

2011-04-22T13:48:00.000-07:00

image by eylul aslan

2011-04-10T08:10:00.000-07:00

just letting you all know that i'm going to close my etsy shop this friday, so if you have been eyeing something go out and get it now! thanks for your support. xo

2011-04-07T12:33:00.000-07:00

i love baseball.

2011-04-03T09:51:00.000-07:00

carson mccullers via life archive

2011-03-20T07:51:00.001-07:00

image via old chum

2011-03-17T10:10:00.000-07:00

really enjoying bloesem's art in your home series. these are images from hanna konola's feature.

2011-03-15T13:15:00.000-07:00

image via here

2011-03-15T10:21:00.000-07:00

image via here

2011-03-10T12:34:00.000-08:00

hey guys! i just put the lovely hand printed lemonade tote bag* in my etsy shop FOR TEN DOLLARS!

any purchase in the shop will receive a free favourites zine (made by amy borkwood and myself) while supplies last!

image courtesy of the effervescent becky.

peep it.

*looks great out

2011-03-03T11:21:00.000-08:00

bleachers = for sale. check it out.

2011-03-02T19:04:00.000-08:00

"You are not an enigma for me. I say that you have turned me from enigmas forever.

Since you exist, as you alone know how to exist, it was perhaps not so necessary that this book should exist. I have decided to write it nevertheless, in memory of the conclusion I wanted to give it before knowing you and which your explosion into my life has not rendered vain. This conclusion has its true meaning and all its strength only through your intercession.

It smiles at me as sometimes you have smiled at me, behind great thickets of tears. "It's still love," you used to say, and more unjustly, you would also say: "All or nothing.'" - Andre Breton, Nadja

ETSY SHOP

2011-03-01T13:43:00.000-08:00

I HAVE OPENED MY ETSY SHOP!

NEW

2011-02-28T13:36:00.000-08:00

i would like to introduce you to my newest drawing. if there is enough interest, i will make some multiples (by hand) and sell 'em!

2011-02-23T15:28:00.000-08:00

hoover high via life archives

2011-02-22T13:21:00.000-08:00

via life archives. i want to join a baseball team this summer!

2011-02-18T12:49:00.000-08:00

new by me. more here

2011-02-18T07:01:00.000-08:00

via old chum

2011-02-14T11:04:00.000-08:00

congratulations to celine for being the necklace giveaway winner! thanks for participating everyone.

GIVEAWAY (closed)

2011-02-08T13:03:00.000-08:00

i've decided to give one of my necklaces away! please leave a comment here if you're interested with your e-mail address, and what you would wear with one of these babies. i'll pick a random winner on february 14th by noon.

2011-02-08T12:03:00.000-08:00

"Everything that I have done today could have been done by a bear. The long seasoned sleep. The lumbering out of bed. Tearing at a hard roll dipped in honey. And then sprawling lazily in the grass where the sun hit. I was going to take a bath but decided that would have been too much bear activity." - Bill Callahan, here.

2011-01-31T18:56:00.000-08:00

my movie list for january:

the good
the thin man
after the thin man
another thin man
blue valentine
the lady eve
libeled lady
bullitt
thorn in my heart
shoot the piano player
and the pursuit of happiness
pygmalion
joan rivers: a piece of work

the bad
never let me go
the switch
going the distance
heartbeats

2011-01-31T12:33:00.000-08:00

image by m willems

2011-01-29T19:24:00.000-08:00

i made myself a giant sketchbook.

2011-01-24T12:27:00.000-08:00

sandi of deadweight is the designer for city of craft 2011, and it looks SO GOOD.

2011-01-23T11:35:00.000-08:00

mia christopher is so talented. check out more of her work here & here.

2011-01-21T17:17:00.000-08:00

some new additions to my home. thank you roz!

2011-01-21T10:23:00.000-08:00

sweet tres corazones print by essimar

2011-01-19T19:51:00.000-08:00

my brother and i watched this one tonight, and it's real good. watch it!

2011-01-11T15:02:00.000-08:00

pretty into this series! i've watched 1-3 and i've been warned to stop now because they get a little... repetitive.

2011-01-06T11:13:00.001-08:00

image by mapa de memoria

2010-12-30T14:50:00.001-08:00

"When I give talks I enjoy showing examples of artists who are/were consistantly going out on a limb and experimenting with new ideas, many of whom bring all of their unique personality traits to the forefront. (Maira Kalman, Tim Burton, James Joyce, Frieda Kahlo, Charles Eames, Picasso, to name but a few). Things that are often perceived as quirky and strange to the general public, yet these are the things that make for a unique voice. We all have them, are we willing to present them to others? A conclusion that we might come to at some point is that we are not a good judge of what others will respond to. And so it is futile to even try. Our only job is to put things out there that we ourselves are responding to (to “defecate and nourish”). It is the judgement that stops us. But to what effect?" - Keri Smith

2010-12-30T09:56:00.000-08:00

a dream cardigan if i've ever seen one (by judith harvest).

2010-12-20T11:58:00.000-08:00

summer reading club

2010-12-15T10:38:00.000-08:00

hand drawn! there's only one of these and it comes with the frame!

i made a facebook fan page - why don't you click on over and like it?

2010-12-14T13:07:00.000-08:00

holiday card for this weekends city of craft! come by and buy one!

2010-12-07T15:05:00.000-08:00

boston public library

2010-11-28T13:16:00.000-08:00

2010-11-26T15:02:00.001-08:00