Showing posts with label printmaking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label printmaking. Show all posts

09 April 2012

Cards for Keiki

I carved this stamp and printed these cards for my keiki hula (children's Hawaiian dance) students a few weeks ago. I decided to take an indefinite break from teaching their classes on Saturday mornings to focus more energy on organizing and setting up studio space for arts and crafting! I wanted to thank the kids for being such fantastic students, and gave them each a card with my best wishes inside, during our bittersweet last class...




... Stay tuned for updates on studio space developments!

21 November 2011

holiday cards going fast

I sold my first few sets of holiday cards from my etsy shop, last week! It's very exciting (and nerve-wracking!) to suddenly have orders lined up, and new empty spaces in my online shop! Wish me luck this holiday season . . .  eek!




03 October 2011

KOKUA means "help"

I designed and hand-printed these totes for the front desk staff at the dance studio, as a thank-you (or "Mahalo") from all the teachers and students that they help keep sane.





25 March 2011

recent projects...

hand-printed business cards (in progress)

playing with some new silkscreen techniques...



21 January 2011

SF Ethnic Dance Festival notecards



so after I gave the hula dancer block print to my Kumu Hula, she asked me if I could design and print cards for the panelists at this year's sfEDF auditions... how cool!  this is the final version of the block print, which I nitpicked for several days, but this one's only printed in my notebook with stamp ink, not the sticky real deal ink.  I also did the text stamps on the left for this project, including the little "SHL" logo which I plan to use on future work!  yay!

01 January 2011

Hula Dancer Block Print


I cut this one from two smaller blocks (the seam runs horizontally through the hole in the ipu heke gourd drum) to make a congratulatory card for our Kumu Hula (hula master), Mahea Uchiyama, who's taking a year sabbatical from the hula school to work at World Arts West (the organization that produces the Ethnic Dance Festival).  This will be a transitional growing time for my hula family and myself... wish us all luck in 2011!

Happy Heart Block Print


Made this block print during a Crafternoon a couple weeks ago... I also used it to make some handmade wrapping paper for xmas, which worked out pretty swell and I think I'll do again with other blocks for birthdays and what not.

06 December 2010

Holiday Card Block Print

On Thanksgiving Day I felt completely relaxed–  I think the fact that it was a holiday, the fact that everyone ought to relax on that day, lent me such a carefree attitude... that, plus looking forward to our large, collaborative dinner made it all the more nice.  Anyway, after getting my dish going on the stove that morning (collard greens and bacon– nine bunches of collard greens!) I spent some time working on a holiday block print to send to friends and family this year:


(eew, sorry for the hair that got scanned in!)

10 August 2010

Tuolumne Camp... special staff tee design
























Last week I took my mom, Marija, brother, Genji, and friend, Sara, to our favorite place on Earth, Tuolumne Family Camp on the South Fork of the Tuolumne River, about 1/2 hour from Yosemite National Park.  After camping with my family for the first 15 years of my life, and working for 7 summers on the kitchen staff there, it was my second year not working and my first year back as a camper, doing  a 3-day hula workshop as an Artist-In-Residence.  I had a fantastic time, catching up with our friends on staff and meeting familiar campers, now camper-to-camper, and really soaking in the refreshing sweet forest smells and pure mountain sunlight and starlight... not to mention basking in the sun by the clear, chilly river!  Heavenly!!

While we were there, our friend Sean, who still works on staff, asked if we could draw him a t-shirt design that he would use to silkscreen special shirts for this year's staff.  That afternoon during "Quiet Hour," Sara and I sat down in the shade on our cabin deck, talked about a general concept and then shared some seamlessly free-flowing, enjoyable collaboration in creating this design.  During the next day or so we put aside time to meet Sean during his off-time to prepare the silkscreen and print some test shirts.  I'll post some photos of my shirt soon. . .

note: you can see an animation I did about working in the kitchen at Tuolumne Camp by clicking here.

26 March 2010

think of the children

some cards I printed for my after school art
students with a cat stamp I made during
yesterday's printmaking "workshop" ... today
is one of their last classes of the session,
so they ALL get one– not just the good kids.