J Crew Cuts sketch #3 (by beth maher)

Thing’s I’m learning about by doing this series.

1. Outlines should be dark, but that doesn’t mean they have to be black.

2. Blender markers are a blessing and a curse.

3. It would be nice to have some neutral tones, instead of… none. But it’s more challenging this way.

4. While the brush tip is a nice addition, it doesn’t replace the fine point of the old Trias. *Sigh*

sweet pink stamps

(via fieldguided)

These are the loveliest stamps I have ever seen. Of course they’re from Sweden, where else?

Broken Bells – The High Road

When I first listened to Broken Bells, I didn’t realize it was Danger Mouse and the lead singer of the Shins.

It makes sense to me now, but I think (as talented as they are apart) their divergent talents come together here to make something larger than the whole:

Lovely, melodic, emotional, indie-rock – with an epically electronic back-beat.

Result: I can’t stop listening to this single.

cardboard castle

(via kris’s color stripes)

Me and my dad actually used to build dollhouses out of cardboard when I was a kid. They were not as awesome as this. Something to aim for, in future.

Flaming Lips pad

(via black eiffel)

Wayne Coyne’s house looks pretty much exactly like you’d expect it to look like – in your wildest dreams.

I love how total-rock-star this abode is, but that it is also warm, soft and totally livable. I think living inside it – with all the warm white, pale teal, pastels and iridescent tiles – must be a little bit like living inside a pearl floating in a swimming pool.

I dig.

The Like – June Gloom 

I like the like.

They, at long last, have a new album (produced by Mark Ronson) but I will always love this song off their first album…

Actually, I love all their songs. They’re poppy as all get out, and awful pretty too (not to mention being super fashionable and having semi-famous parents), but who cares  when the music is this good?

just right swimsuits

(via angry chicken)

Sometimes I really think little girls get all the good stuff. I would wear these retro little twenties style swimsuits in a split second.

never wanted a tattoo til now! « Jill Bliss

Me either.

• Dinner was a celeriac and leek gratinee. Delish. #
• I drew something today. And coloured it in with markers. And it looks awesome. I don't completley suck! #
• Drawereing from last night: J Crew sketch: http://flic.kr/p/7VfHKN #
• As time goes by I am more and more happy I never bothered to learn Flash. But I am thinking maybe I should learn HTML5 ASAP. #
• So, I should hate Garance Dore because she said some stupid thing about plus size people, but instead I am subscribing to her blog? #
• Little known fact @me: I was the Garance Dore of my university, camera and style questionaire perpetually in hand. I was ahead of my time. #
• I just argle-bargled the face on this drawing with my blender marker. It was perfect, but I had to make it perfecter. I am the dumbs. #
• I got bacon fat in my salad dressing! I got salad dressing in my bacon fat! Mmmmmmmmmmm bacon salad… #
• Last nights drawering (with sorta un-buggerd face): J Crew sketch #2 http://flic.kr/p/7VGrTQ #
• I have resolved to post these things even if I royally screw them up. #
• Oh, and I just found out "bugger" is a traditional British term for sodomy. I had no idea. Thank you Wikipedia! #
• Critics: comparing anything unfavorably to a video game or comic is no longer legitimate criticism & no, you're not just smarter than me. #
• Japanese Pentel pens are the bomb. Expensive though. Just bought a Tradio Stylo that is awesomly organic and janky. #
• Woah. This new mural at Stephanie and McCaul is awesome. #
• Some sketches illustrating my new pen's (Pentel Tradio Stylo) kinda awesome jankyness: http://flic.kr/p/7W1Ftw #
• Frankly, this is the first time since I got the hell outta OCAD that I actually feel like drawing again. It feels pretty good too. #
• Do you know what the saddest thing about living in Canada is? No access to awesome girl scout cookies. I've never tasted a thin mint. Sad. #

poppytalk: Nicole Lavelle for Willamette Week

I think this kind of photographic-illustration-collage-mash-up is becoming my favourite.

wrapped in memories… – Oh Joy!

What I love about these scarves is that, on top of being the superest, most clever idea, they look really really cool while being worn too. Which is important. So many clever ideas in fashion do not translate into something actually wearable. I want one soooo bad.

10 Hot Dogs You Can Hang On Your Wall | Apartment Therapy The Kitchn

I am the hugest fan of regional and street foods. I have gone out of my way to try Beef on Wecks, deep fried Twinkies, and Persians. So it’s lovely to see our very own regional variation on the hot dog enshrined in illustration.

J Crew sketch (by beth maher)

Playing around with a J Crew catalogue and my Tria markers last night. I haven’t drawn like this in soooo long!

I think I’m gonna do a series in my sketchbook of these little Crew Cuts cuties. They’re too adorable to resist. The J Crew styling is also lot of fun to draw – all the wrinkles and creases and folds make for some great fabric studies. 

I just need to come up with a solution for my blue pencil. The Trias kinda smear it around and sink it into the page.

365 : 95 (by the workroom)

Love the streetcar blurring by in the background.

The Workroom has the most gorgeous fabric and sewing notions in the whole city – and yet I’ve never been there. Why? It’s sooooo far away! All the way on the other side of the city. But I need to go someday soon.

Photo of the Day: 28-Layer Rainbow Cake | Serious Eats

Gore. Geous.

My favourite birthday cake growing up was definitively: Rainbow. With Rainbow chip icing of course! Yeah, it came out of a box. But it was transcendent.

I have finally (finally, finally!) sorted through, and edited our photos from France, and posted the best of them up on the series of tubes for all to see. To see them all, just just click here to go to their set on flickr.

Black*Eiffel: Flowers in May

This is definitely one of those illustrations that makes me feel like: Darn! I should have come up with this myself!  Simultaneously jealous of the artists talent, and surprised my brain wasn’t the one to get the idea.

Necklace (by Eating ghosts)

The red on this tee is so juicy and that necklace is so teensy and darling. Both makes me want to own more things with little illustrations hidden on them (perhaps even my own).

• Our threadless tshirts got here today! I'm wearing Jess Hutch's Perfect Chair Fort as we speak. #
• "An Education" just made up for the rut of not-very-good movies we've been having. Plus I finally understand the buzz for a Ms. Carey M. #
• But mostly, I'm even more enamoured with Olivia Williams, the worlds hottest British school marm. I'd take a seat in her classroom. #
• Dear Roger Ebert: You are wrong. You are wrong. You are wrong. You are wrong. Wrong wrong wrong. Wrong. Wrong! Ugghhhhhhh old people suck. #
• Fun weekend: Celebrated an engagement with Ethiopian food, record store day, then Hakka (Chinese/Indian food) and kulfi with the sis today. #

poppytalk: Hula Seventy: Letters Letters Letters

Love love love this: the letters, the colours, the message, the placement.