New silk scarves

New Silk Scarves! with decoratively stitched raw-edges and hand-dyed shimmery-ness.
More coming for holiday sales.

In other news, my wonderful t-shirts will soon be carried by Weaver's Way Co-op in lovely Mt. Airy in Philadelphia --ETA is early September.

Preliminary Silks 2016

Like an EEG   ..... or a piano roll....spooling from my brain....

Got Silk?

My latest foray into silk scarves, I have experimented with new silk dyes and
discharging on them, getting more into the silk infinity scarf possibilities.
I am happy to now be able to get some more brighter colors! To be continued...

Gearing up for the rest of summer and fall/holiday sales, there is a lot of planning ahead to do.
Mt. Airy Day in May 2015 was a success; and I will be returning to "Art for the Cash Poor" #16
at the Crane Building 1400 N. American St., in Lovely Fishtown Philly,  this weekend June 12 5-9pm,  and June 13&14, 12-6 pm.

Comet Moon Cow

Newest design so far --for the young and young at heart, I think.
At the Philadelphia Waldorf School Holiday sale last month, a young boy approached
my table looking wide-eyed at all my shirts, clearly engaged. His mom then informed me
he liked cows and asked if I had a cow shirt. Unfortunately at that time I did not, and I do prefer my subjects to evolve into my design stock organically... but I continued thinking about this idea, since I like cows myself, have been thinking alot about them recently in general; and also, the comet probe
had just landed. I thought about making a cow on a comet, but the comet images from the probe that I saw looked entirely too rugged. Then I remembered the nursery rhyme, “Hey Diddle Diddle, the Cat & the Fiddle”--- with the cow jumping over the moon--- and figured that would be a good enough celestial body to include with my cow! This image started out as very small ballpoint pen sketch on the back of an envelope, came together quickly and had hopes of becoming a woodcut. Right now it is a screenprint for purposes of fabric-printing efficiency.
These will also debut this weekend at the Mt. Airy Art Garage holiday sale. I plan to have a good range of kid's sizes --3T (smallest size this image will fit on) up to Youth XL, and some adult sizes too--and ladies tank tops will be ready for the summer.
In the meantime, Happy early Winter Solstice!

The Raven : Corvus Corax

Here is my new Raven shirt, complete with the bird's scientific name, Corvus Corax.
(so as not to be confused with others of the Corvid family).
Ravens are mythologically significant; they are also very intelligent birds.
I thought it a fitting subject to be included in my inventory!
This is a 2 color print, with a pale aqua spot tone and a black ink key image; it looks good on
blue-ish fabrics as well as orange-rust and mustard shades, which really show the blue layer to advantage.

more Silk Scarves/Holiday 2014

I've been busy working on some new things this fall of 2014 (as well as attending various local sales events)-- one of which is New Silk Scarves! These have been hand-dyed and discharge-printed with my current scarf patterns. I have also started dyeing and printing silk Infinity (circle) scarves, which is a great find to be able to offer, along with my desirable cotton ones.
This one is a black-green shade; this particular black dye discharges to a green-blue. I have other colors available too.

The above is a blue silk, a color that has been popular with customers with my newest leafy discharge-print pattern.
These will be available at the Mt. Airy Art Garage Holiday Sale this weekend 12/20 and 12/21
(just in time for the Winter Solstice!) 11 W. Mt. Airy Ave, Phila., PA 19119---12-6pm both days.

Wyck House “Behind the Fence”--Germantown, Philadelphia, PA

I'll back at Wyck House (6026 Germantown Avenue) on Saturday, September 6, 10am-4pm, for the 2104 Philadelphia Honey Festival----I was at that event last year and it proved to be a good one for me---as well as being a lot of fun, with all the bee-&-honey-themed activity going on!

New Scarves

A few new scarves as of today----At left, a Discharge print on black silk
(this one is still kind of in-progress, I think I need to add a bit more printing to it);
the warm grey-ish middle scarf and the medium blue scarf at right are both double-dye/dual design Discharge print experiments, featuring my stripe discharge print enhanced with a plant-like pattern print on top. They were fun to do but took longer.

Squeegee Power Rocks! (showing my screen with the plant pattern stencil
during printing). I am looking forward to the fall and holiday sale season---
Dates and events to be announced as they solidify.

Kids Size T's--the Collection

The Bee T-shirt joins Kids' “Robo-Squirrel” and the Mini-Vintage Drill T-shirt
as part of the collection of designs I have been carrying in sizes 6-months to
size 4 (and in some cases, youth sizes also). Demand for these have remained
consistent enough for me to keep them in my stock!

Oh Happy May (and June too) upcoming art sales and Mt. Airy

This Spring in Philly finally got underway (so welcome after the past winter) and with it art sales were good. Mt. Airy's "Mt. Airy Day" was an awesome kickoff (thanks to my customers, old and new!) This weekend I will be at "Art for the Cash Poor 15" at the Crane Building, 1400 N. American St., Phila.---both Sat and Sun.,12-6pm.
In July, August and September, I will be back at the Wyck House in Germantown for their "Behind
the Fence' festivals. Dates to come.

Then really it becomes back-to-school and ramp-up for Fall and holiday art sale times.
Above is one of my new silk scarves, I've been experimenting with new dye for silk.
Below are my yoga Tanks which are featured for summer at the Mt. Airy Art Garage.

working on more scarves too

New Scarf I just finished last night. This is a lovely red-violet-ish shade I came up with
(not a commercial dye shade, so it is very limited edition). This leafy pattern really seems to work
best on the woven cotton scarves, so I think I will only be putting it on that style (not the infinity jersey style scarves). I like its primitive folk-art appearance. My goofy cat, Max-orange, in the top photo, has appointed himself as my photo stylist, and can often be found on my lap while I am trying to work on something else!
       • Late Addition to my Holiday Sale roster----on Wed., 12/18/13 5-8pm, I will be at the Fall semester Book Party with a selection of my wares, in Uarts CBS Auditorium, 320 S. Broad St., (Hamilton Hall) in Center City Philly.

Next Sales in December (so far)

Now that November craft sales have wrapped up, I have a short breather this coming weekend after Turkey Day (Thanks to all my customers, old and new, especially at the Waldorf School of Philadelphia! Awesome sales there!)... I will be at the Northwestern Stables Holiday sale (120 Northwestern Ave., Phila., PA 19118) on Saturday 12/7/13 from 10a-4p. The historic barn will be all decorated for the holiday and there will be plenty of equine-themed fun plus education about the stable and its horses; besides all the cool craft vendors set up with their wares on the ground floor in the stable, as well as in the large 2nd-floor former hayloft (where I will be).
This should be a great event, since the Valley Green Inn at the Wissahickon Creek has their Wreath Decorating event happening, in addition to the Chestnut Hill Holiday House Tour, at the same time! Lots of people converging on the lovely Fairmount Park Wissahickon Valley area, as winter approaches.
Proceeds of the Stable craft sale benefit the riding lesson program, and help keep the hardworking lesson horses in carrots, oats and new shoes! This cause is close to my heart, as I got to do some riding there in Summer of 2013 after a VERY Loooong hiatus from being in the saddle----did it when I was a young'un; have wanted to get back to riding again since forever!
I made a special new design for this sale too. (Photo above). It depicts “Doc,” the horse I rode for the summer lesson sessions---he was very patient with me getting back into riding shape, so I thought he deserved to be the subject of a T-shirt!
So, I am psyched!! {Thanksgiving vacation will be spent busily printing, among other things...}.

I will also be back at the Mt. Airy Art Garage in my neighborhood for the final installment of their Holiday sales series----on 12/14 and 12/15/13--12-6pm. Last call for getting those awesome artist-created holiday gifts!!

Upcoming Holiday 2013 Sales

Getting your LS-Drew Graphics Holiday 2013 Wearable Screenprinted Goodness
starts now!
I will be at Mt. Airy Art Garage (11 W. Mt. Airy Ave., Phila., PA)
this coming weekend November 16 &17 noon-5pm for a
Pre-Holiday Sale event---as well as on 12/14 and 12/15, 2013!!
   And I will be at the Waldorf School of Philadelphia
(7500 Germantown Ave, Eagles II Bldg, Phila. PA) on
Friday 11/22/13, 6-10 pm; and all day Saturday 11/23.
New T-shirt stuff!  (see the above images!) More events to come!!

Upcoming Sales for Fall Season!

Summer 2013 (and my fun studio time) is sadly waning fast....
But, I will be setting up some super-cool art/craft sales venues,
just in time for back-to-school and lovely cooler fall weather;
On deck so far:
•Saturday 9/7/2013, 10a-4p
Wyck Historic House
“Behind the Fence’’ Bee and Honey Festival
6026 Germantown Ave., Phila., PA. 19144
I had a great time at the last Wyck House garden festival on 8/10/13.
Wyck is like a little time-capsule and oasis in Philly, you forget you are
in a city on this 2.5 acre mini-farm!

•RiverCity Festival
Saturday 10/5/2013, 12noon-5p
at Penn Treaty Park in Fishtown, Philadelphia
1199 N. Delaware Ave., Phila., PA.
Super awesome historic park right on the
water of the Delaware River. In addition to craft
vendors, there will be a beer garden, food, live music,
and tons of other cool stuff.

I'll be adding more venues as they roll in, so stay tuned!

Robo-Squirrel Goes Tie-Dye (and metal enamel squiggle surface too) for Summer!

Here is Robo-Squirrel on a “Ka-zow-ee” cool Tie-Dye shirt new this summer!
Robo-Squirrel loves swirly Tie-Dye and Tie-Dye loves him right back!

Here is Robo-Squirrel on an even cooler over-all speckle pattern, which will be extremely
limited-edition --also new this summer. Woo-hoo!  I am still working out
what other images I might print on these--I have the same speckly pattern on a series
of different shades of blue and blue-green shirts. Due to the small number
of T-shirts I have available in this new entity, for now they will likely only be offered
for in-person sales at art fairs I do this upcoming late summer, fall and holiday time.

Kitsch Kitchen Bird --New Design

This is my latest new T-shirt print---much of it is also hand-painted.
It's based on a photo of a cool old vase I have hanging in my kitchen.
The colors are a little bright and not really all that naturalistic;
it is quite stylized, as I worked to approximate
the glaze colors on the vase.
So I call it “Kitsch Bird”.
I am pleased with it so far, although it is a bit labor-intensive to
produce. It's a good project to work on when I need to unwind
and be in the flow of it.

Upcoming Sales venue announcement: I will be at Art for the Cash Poor 14 the weekend of June 7th for all 3 days! This art fair is located in the very cool Crane Building in No. Libs/Fishtown
1400 N. American St in Philly.
I'm in my studio now prepping new dye colors,
and scoping out my next art fairs too.
More details to come!

Getting ready for spring art sales!! Early prints on the newest dyes on scarves!
(elegant "Elephant Elbow" medium grey, top; and "Riverbottom" ---looking cool
on an earlier 'Wet Rhino' dyed T-shirt.....)
First up, ArtUnleashed scholarship sale 4/10---13/2013 at 320 S. Broad St., Phila., PA.
Then I will be at Mt. Airy Day in wonderful Northwest Philadelphia on 5/4/13. More to come!

{Whew that was a busy holiday season --and thanks to all my customers old and new for
making 2012 a great year!!!}  It's a New Year,  so here are new dyed shirts and scarves! Colors from the bottom up: a  Mist Grey plus "Elephant Elbow"
mix; Cerulean blue (my own recipe); "Riverbottom";  and "Muckleberry" for the very
first dye bath I did this year.....
Gotta get a big pile of things to be printing this winter for this year's sales!!

2 Late Fall-Early Holiday Sales!

Announcing 2 upcoming art/craft/gift sales

that I am participating in, with my hand-printed

               T-shirts and scarves!!--

•Waldorf School of Philadelphia Holiday Sale
7500 Germantown Ave., Eagles 2 Bldg., Phila., PA.
(on New Covenant Campus, across the Ave. from the Trolley Car Diner)

Friday 11/16/12, 6-10 pm, and Sat. 11/17/12, 10 am-5 pm

•Midtown Village Holiday Craft Sale at
William Way Community Center, Ballroom, 1315 Spruce Street,
in Center City Philadelphia, PA:   Friday, November 30, 2012, 5 - 8 pm;
Saturday, December 1 & Sunday, December 2, Noon - 5 pm

 

Look at all those Super-Cool T-shirts---Get ’em, hot off the press!!

          More events to come in December proper!!