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Showing posts with label squidwhale designs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label squidwhale designs. Show all posts
Monday, January 31, 2011
Preview: New Goods in the Sea Shanty
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Thursday, January 20, 2011
2011 Handmade Olympics!
We're so happy to be a part of this awesome event by The Rikrak Studio: The HANDMADE OLYMPICS! "Where the handmade world comes together to celebrate making things"!
There are 8 handmade olympic events that can be entered in various ways (read the RULES).
The event that we in particular are sponsoring: Favorite Handmade Goodie that Inspires Loveliness & Wellness! (event #4).
We're giving away a $50 shopping spree to our Etsy store: SquidWhale Designs.
Additional prizes being provided by Michele Maule, Racey Tay, The Peach Tree, Tscarf. Check out their stores!
Monday, January 10, 2011
Fun-A-Day: 1.7.11 - 1.10.11
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| painted by Elizabeth (the Squid) |
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| painted by Elizabeth (the Squid) |
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| painted by Sarah (the Whale) |
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| painted by Sarah (the Whale) |
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Fun-A-Day: 1.3.11 - 1.6.11
Friday, December 31, 2010
"Cheaters" collection underway ...
Beth and I are working on a collection of original prints inspired by this unusual vintage quilt top (purchased at the wonderful shop, Harriet's Daughter, on Etsy) and cheater quilt fabrics.
Determining a palette ... still life with gouache tubes and some sketches by Beth
We'll be exhibiting 30 gouache paintings similar to the ones you see above in the fantastically fun annual art event, Fun-A-Day! You can participate in Fun-A-Day, too! Sign up at http://artclash.com/
We've also begun to list items in our new nautical vintage section, The Sea Shanty! Check it out!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
XOXOXO
Squid & Whale
Determining a palette ... still life with gouache tubes and some sketches by Beth
We'll be exhibiting 30 gouache paintings similar to the ones you see above in the fantastically fun annual art event, Fun-A-Day! You can participate in Fun-A-Day, too! Sign up at http://artclash.com/
We've also begun to list items in our new nautical vintage section, The Sea Shanty! Check it out!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
XOXOXO
Squid & Whale
Thursday, December 30, 2010
The Sea Shanty
The Sea Shanty, our new vintage section filled with exclusively nautical-themed objects, is coming in January 2011. Here's preview of what we have in store ...
Happy New Year, all!
xoxo
Whale
Happy New Year, all!
xoxo
Whale
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Brandon Bird Paint By Number & New Card Sets!
"It's one of the best paintings ever made. It's our generation's Mona Lisa." ~ Elizabeth J. "Beth" Smith
Beth has a very high opinion of Brandon Bird's painting, Bad Day on the High Seas. At one point she even considered getting a huge tattoo of it on her back. Before SquidWhale was a twinkle in our eye, there was this painting we found in a random Google search. The rest is history.
So, when Brian told me about this new paint by number kit, I knew I had to buy it for Beth for Christmas.
Beth got to work tonight painting her very own version of Bad Day on the High Seas. She's mixing all of her own colors of gouache to work with. It's going to be bad ass. And, will have a place on our studio wall very soon. I promise we'll share when it's done.
Also, we're so excited about our new card sets!
French Costumes, Set of 5 different designs (only three of them are shown here)
The Turkey Red Collection, Set of 4 different designs (obviously all pictured)
They're available in the shop now and make a fantastic last minute holiday gift/stocking stuffer. The best thing is, they're festive, but not necessarily for the holidays. You can enjoy them year round!
Thanks for reading!
xoxo
Sarah
Friday, October 29, 2010
Etsy Treasury FRIDAYS
SquidWhale's back with a vengeance! Our studio's finally set up, we're working on some new exciting products for the Turkey Red Collection just in time for the Holidays, and we're back to blogging after a long hiatus.
We've decided to begin adding a few weekly blog articles to our repertoire. From now on Fridays will be ETSY TREASURY FRIDAYS! Woot! We'll be celebrating our love for these thoughtfully curated collections of handmade and vintage goodies by featuring one Treasury we made this week and one we love.
First off, the lovely peodra on Etsy curated this Treasury, NIGHT TALES, earlier this month and we LOVE it! We're so excited she featured our altered vintage doily, Mice with Black-Eyed Susans! It also has lots of our favorite Etsy sellers, including Plundered (vintage shop by Margaux Kent of The Black Spot Books & Philly friend), Yokoo, Restless General Store, Swan Bones, The Pin Pals ... the list goes on and on. Poedra has amazing taste and a wonderful new jewelry shop on Etsy. Keep up the great work!
And now for one I made (Sarah here). I made my second Treasury just a few nights ago, MINOR TRIUMPHS, MAJOR DISASTERS. I was in an interesting state of mind when I crafted this, but I like how it turned out.
ENJOY!
<3
Sarah
SquidWhale Designs
We've decided to begin adding a few weekly blog articles to our repertoire. From now on Fridays will be ETSY TREASURY FRIDAYS! Woot! We'll be celebrating our love for these thoughtfully curated collections of handmade and vintage goodies by featuring one Treasury we made this week and one we love.
First off, the lovely peodra on Etsy curated this Treasury, NIGHT TALES, earlier this month and we LOVE it! We're so excited she featured our altered vintage doily, Mice with Black-Eyed Susans! It also has lots of our favorite Etsy sellers, including Plundered (vintage shop by Margaux Kent of The Black Spot Books & Philly friend), Yokoo, Restless General Store, Swan Bones, The Pin Pals ... the list goes on and on. Poedra has amazing taste and a wonderful new jewelry shop on Etsy. Keep up the great work!
And now for one I made (Sarah here). I made my second Treasury just a few nights ago, MINOR TRIUMPHS, MAJOR DISASTERS. I was in an interesting state of mind when I crafted this, but I like how it turned out.
ENJOY!
<3
Sarah
SquidWhale Designs
Monday, May 3, 2010
MAJOR PROGRESS
Whale here with my first-ever blog post!
This has been a week of MAJOR PROGRESS at SquidWhale h.q. We've finally delved into working in color (gouache painting yes!) and went on our first flea market adventure together to hunt for vintage inspiration.
Let me start by saying that I am a fine artist by training and it is not easy for me to work in the way that Textile Designers do. I usually rely heavily on layering of wet and dry media, on rigorous mark making (ok, scribbling) and a lot of adding and subtracting. My drawing tools are filthy with graphite powder.
After much erasing, re-drawing, checking my measurements and much encouragement from Squid, I finally finished the contour line drawing of my first surface pattern design. Here, it's inset into our 4 ft. wide medallion of abstract florals:
To prepare for painting my whole motif with gouache on board which is quite large, I started with just these two little plaid mice. They're seen with some of Squid's designs for our first collection:
Our designs amidst some of our vintage inspiration found at the flea market on Saturday. Please note the color litho plates from a 1939 edition of French Costumes. They're fantastic and will most likely be for sale in the SquidWhale Designs Etsy shop come June or July:
Detail of the most amazing hankie that echoes our color palette and design choices:
And lastly, a little vintage embroidered linen table cloth and leather-topped wooden table for our installation. I plan to embroider a few scurrying mousies onto the table cloth. They'll weave in and out of the black-eyed susans and the french knots that look, curiously enough, just like little mouse turds...
More soon! Thanks for stopping by!
<3 SquidWhale Designs
This has been a week of MAJOR PROGRESS at SquidWhale h.q. We've finally delved into working in color (gouache painting yes!) and went on our first flea market adventure together to hunt for vintage inspiration.
Let me start by saying that I am a fine artist by training and it is not easy for me to work in the way that Textile Designers do. I usually rely heavily on layering of wet and dry media, on rigorous mark making (ok, scribbling) and a lot of adding and subtracting. My drawing tools are filthy with graphite powder.
After much erasing, re-drawing, checking my measurements and much encouragement from Squid, I finally finished the contour line drawing of my first surface pattern design. Here, it's inset into our 4 ft. wide medallion of abstract florals:
To prepare for painting my whole motif with gouache on board which is quite large, I started with just these two little plaid mice. They're seen with some of Squid's designs for our first collection:
Our designs amidst some of our vintage inspiration found at the flea market on Saturday. Please note the color litho plates from a 1939 edition of French Costumes. They're fantastic and will most likely be for sale in the SquidWhale Designs Etsy shop come June or July:
Detail of the most amazing hankie that echoes our color palette and design choices:
And lastly, a little vintage embroidered linen table cloth and leather-topped wooden table for our installation. I plan to embroider a few scurrying mousies onto the table cloth. They'll weave in and out of the black-eyed susans and the french knots that look, curiously enough, just like little mouse turds...
More soon! Thanks for stopping by!
<3 SquidWhale Designs
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