Sketches: Three Bakelite telephones


Lobster phone by Salvador Dali



Tonight I found this picture of a Dali bakelite telephone on a great blog called design traveller and just looking at it's exquisite shape was inspired to draw it. I have long admired these bakelite phones -particularly the ivory ones which i find especially goofey looking.
Perhaps i'll make one of these drawings into a print someday....

ps. There are just too many great blogs out there... how the heck does anyone get ANY work done?

Back in the Studio



The Brooks Brothers suit done in a custom colour for a special customer

Step 1 in making a screen
Transfer your image to a piece of acetate
(Trade secret which I learned from studio mate Jeff: If you don't have acetate you can also oil a plain piece of paper to make it transparent)

After placing the acetate on a screen which has been coated with emulsion, turn on the light table and expose the screen for 5 minutes
Jeff uses the 'heavy tool box technique" for ensuring that no light seeps through.

TA DA! The s is for swing screen is ready!

This is what the final print will look like.

On the weekend I printed a custom Brooks Brothers suit in orange for a special customer request and also created the screen for my s is for swing print. Swing prints will be ready in approx. 2 weeks!

Women who Paint on Walls: Hazel Meyer and Margaret Kilgallen


Hazel Meyer

One wall of the installation

Another wall!

A deconstruction of the tshirt

Pleased to see a quote from Michel de Certeau included! (one of my favorite Situationist thinkers)

Part of Margaret Kilgallen's Installation from 2000 UCLA Museum, Los Angeles

Margaret working. Love this picture

Love this one too.

Margaret working
She never did projections - She painted directly on the wall based on a sketches. Brave.

Two Saturdays ago I went to see "Hyper Hyper": an installation by my friend Hazel Meyer at The OCAD Graduate Gallery. The installation was Hazel's MFA Graduate thesis event. As explained in her invitation Hyper-Hyper was an installation of doodles, sketches, marks + text that weaved together the physiology of muscle building through resistance training with art methodology. It consumed the walls + floor of the gallery and was an explosive visualization of a discursive thought process!

Hazel's courageous doodles + text dancing on a large scale immediately reminded me of one of my favourite artists and mentors Margaret Killgallen -- so thought it was high time I included some pictures of her work on my blog. She is endlessly inspirational to me.