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Caffine in the Morning

New drawing I did over a nice cup of joe.

Draw and Print Your World

These are photos of a camp I held at The New Children's Museum.
In this workshop, children had the opportunity to work me to develop their personal drawing styles by exploring the world and objects around them, as well as design elements. This workshop will also gave children an introduction to printmaking in various forms, and a more detailed look at screen printing as a technique to produce their final pieces.

I would love to custom tailor this camp to suit your venue and needs. I look forward to discussing how we can custom format this camp to be site-specific to your location.

For more info, please contact me at letschat@lindsay-preston.com

See more photos on my Flickr

Igloo Invitational This Saturday Aug 8

Everyone come out to Igloo this Saturday to support some pals, and check out a new two color screen-printed shirt I made!

Please join us for a sale of products and wares by local, national, and international artisans. Also wish a bon voyage to our long-time associates Arik Acosta and Steph Walker as they venture to far away places.

Special thanks to The Solitary Arts for the guest appearance by the S.A. Skate Team

Music by DJs Saul Q, Eddie Turbo & Special Guest

15% off all non-bazaar, regular store merchandise and complimentary gift with purchase

!gloo store

640 W. Beech St. #1A

San Diego, CA 92101

619.234.5855

igloostore.com

Cut and assemble igloo sunglasses by Arik Acosta

Drawing and Printing with Style Recap

Here is a video of me helping a 7 year old print her custom illustration on a T-shirt.



I just finished two amazing weeks teaching my summer camp, Drawing and Printing with Style. The end goal of the workshop was a melee of screen printed garb…shirts, pillowcases, cardboard, paper, posters, and any other fabrics the kids could convince their parents to print on. I think I bombarded a few un-expecting parents with the abundance of “stuff” their kid had produced on the final day of camp....Read more on the NCM blog.

WARNING: This is really cute....

The Children's Museum has asked me to do a couple custom birthday hats for the Child of the Week. I just finished my second hat, and I'm pretty sure its the cutest thing I've ever made...it's a little sickening how cute it is. But, I figured Laura loves pink and princesses, so why downplay it eh?

I like making these hats interactive, so this one has a detachable flower princess doll. Before viewing these pictures, be warned, they are about a 12 on the cuteness scale and may not be suitable for all audiences...

Drawing and Printing with Style Summer Camp

The New Children's Museum asked me to concept and lead two sessions of a week long summer camp with 5-8 year olds. Tomorrow is the last day of round two, in which we will be screen printing T-Shirts and posters of the kids drawings. Pretty epic. Here are some pictures of my classroom set up. More pictures to come.....

Yeller at the Wharffice Work

Here are some images of my work from the Yeller at the Wharffice show. For more images, go to our Flickr site. More event photos to come...

Mattson 2 Benefit Pictures

More photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/cocobohemia/sets/72157621005030562/

Mattson 2 Benefit Video by My Local Line Up

Here is a nice video recapping the Mattson 2 Benefit I was a part of.

Mattson2 at Surfindian from My Local Lineup on Vimeo.

Yeller on Club Mumble

Check it out!!
http://clubmumble.com/2009/07/07/nautical-yeller-show-this-saturday-july-11-7-11pm/#more-9498

Yeller Preview Week

We starting installing work for our Yeller show this Saturday. We basically all showed up with boxes of our work from the last four months and laid it all out on the floor. Pretty crazy. We will be posting more previews every day this week leading up to the show on the Yeller blog.
Here is some info on the show:

Yeller At The Wharffice
July 11 / 7-11 PM
A collection of new nautical work by Yeller
Clarke Forrest, Lindsay Preston, Michael Tussey, Steph Walker and John Zappas.
Featuring nautical mix tapes by the Yeller members and DJ Butt-Length Hair + Guest.

One night only!!

Succulent Garden!

Inspired by an awesome workshop I got to be a part of with Brit Neubacher, I planted my very own mini succulent garden. I'm in love.

Yeller at the Wharffice

Here is the official poster for Yeller at the Wharffice on July 11th. Thanks for making it John! The directions are tricky, so make sure you consult our website for more detailed directions and info if you are interested in coming.

Things

Things is an impromptu zine I made for the Homework Show last Saturday. I am totally hooked on Zines now, and you can expect a couple new ones for the Yeller Show! Send me your address and I'll mail you one!

Passing and Waiting Zine

Here is a new zine I made for the Homework Show. It is filled with illustrations paired with text like "All children grow too old to take baths with their mothers." Shoot me a line and I'll send you one! Or come to the Homework show this Saturday night at Point of Departure in Northpark (7-11).

Where?

Here is a little painting/diorama I just finished for Yeller.




I found the fish boat that the painting is in at the swap meet and got two of them for 5 bucks. Also on the same swap meet trip, searching for nautical salvage stuff, a guy tried to sell us this:



He claimed it was an antique and wanted $15 for it! And I was like...hmmm I know I've seen that crappy foamy wood at Michaels....

Mattson Family Benefit Show

A benefit show is being held for the Mattson 2 and their family. I am donating work for the show along with other artists like John Zappas, , Andy Davis and Thomas Campbell. Please come out for great art, music, friends, and to support the Mattsons.

A tour of my garden

My tomato plant has been GOING OFF lately! I planted him in the wrong season (winter), so now that summer is here, he is getting huge and producing a ton of tomatoes. I also have some little squash, leeks, bell pepper, and more tomato coming in right now. The little fence off to the left is our compost heap where lots of bugs live. mmmm.

Pins and Cards available on Etsy

Here are some gift cards and pins (both with printed images of my illustrations) that are available on my Etsy. Let me know you saw them on my blog and you'll get FREE SHIPPING!!!

Shape Faces T Shirt

Bingo bongo! A newly printed two color shirt, hot off the press. This is a lovely plastisol print on American Apparel 50/50s. It's available in all sizes, so buy one in my Etsy Shop! Let me know you saw it on my blog, and you'll get free shipping!! HORRAY FOR FREE THINGS!

Bikes in the Dark: A Mix Tape

John Zappas asked me to make a guest Mix tape for his stellar blog. So here it is folks, my newest mix entitled "Bikes in the Dark." Enjoy.

http://www.mediafire.com/?znjg4xntvnz>

Never Eat Soggy Wafers

Here is a new shirt i designed and printed that will be available on my Esty and on at Yeller.
It is available in all sizes in grey or blue with blue ink.

The new Yeller Site is up!

The new Yeller site is up and running. Check out our new blog format site at www.yellerstudio.com. Subscribe Subscribe!!
You can also click on the link on the right side to purchase work!

Sleep Book

I am newly part of a sleep book: three of us pass around a journal and make drawings and writings in it as we are falling asleep. After 5 entries or so, the book is passed on. Here are some of the musings that I came up with in my half wake state:

Pattern Drawings and doodles

Here are some new drawings and doodles

Before Bedtime

One of my favorite times to make new drawings is right before bed...when you know you should be sleeping, or maybe sometimes are in bed on your way to sleep, and get to see what silly things flow out of your brain. Here are some new "Before Bedtime" water color drawings.

A Reprint of an Old Shirt

Hepburn's logo

This is a new identity and logo I am designing for Hepburn's, a consignment shop opening up soon on Adams Avenue. More to come...

Zoozillette Shirt

Here is a new shirt I designed, printed, and crocheted on. It is available for purchase on my Etsy site, $20 or $30 with the crocheted neckline.

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=22410579

The Viney Shrew

Yeller Merch

Here are photos of my screen printed pieces that were included in the Yeller Grand Opening Exhibit. The work is on display until this Friday at mxd830, and can be viewed and purchased at yellerstudio.com

Here are some photos of the opening event. It was a hoot! The band Mattson 2 played, and totally capped of the evening with some great music. We hope to show in more San Diego galleries as a group in the future. To learn about upcoming Yeller events and info, send me your email address. The Yeller Flickr page can be found at http://www.flickr.com/photos/35495789@N06/

More Yeller!

Here are some picks of the mural we installed in the gallery for our Yeller show. Each artist picked a color and went to town. The Yeller logo looks distorted unless you look at it from one choice spot in the gallery. Don't miss the opening this Friday (feb 13) from 7-11 at 830 25th st!

Dear bloggers, i appoligize for a lack of updates in times of late, Yeller has been controlling my life. But, not to worry my little faithfuls, after the show I will be uploading pictures of my work in the show, as well as other images of new work. I may even undertake building a new website...yikes! But for now, yellerstudio.com. Exelsior!

YELLER IS COMING

I am undergoing an opening of an artists collective that focuses on making prints. We have an upcoming show to launch the group and Webstore. The show will be held at mxd830 (on 25th and F in Golden Hill) on February 13, 7-11 pm. Come one come all! Go to Yellerstudio.com for more info. The band Mattson Two is playing at the opening (mattson2.com for more info).

Absinthe Chalk Drawing

Here is a chalk mural behind an Absinthe I did recently at an event at the Children's Museum.

Sock Monkey

Here is a sock monkey I made for my little sister. Merry Christmas everyone!

Tubes

Here is a different version of that Tubes drawing that I may make into a print.

MXD 830

Tubes

Totem

Geo 1

These new drawings and others will be featured at an art show and sale at MXD830 (830 25th Street). Swing on by.

How Can You Touch Them?

This is the original imagery I imagined with the phrase "how can you touch them?" I am working on a print of a similar drawing that I will post when its done.

How Can You Touch Them?

As I woke up this morning, I had a phrase repeating in my head: "How can you touch them." The image accompanying this phrase was severed hands holding each others wrists in a long chain. then, while driving today i noticed how some trees reach towards the tree next to them, while others reach towards the sky. Hands are like trees in a way...reaching and touching and marking our years.

LA drawings

I went up to LA this weekend and did a couple draiwings at a jazz bar called the Hip Kitty.

Jeanzee Drawing

Here's little Jeanzee drawing at Krakatoa. Isn't he handsome?

New Daytrotter Illustrations

Here is one I did of Cold War Kids

I did this one for the Silver Jews. This one is currently posted on Daytrotter at http://daytrotter.com/features/1460/silver-jews-cold-throbbing-arms-await

Totem

Birthday Card

Wishing Box

After making boxes for my Matryoshka Dolls, I decided to carry on the pursuit of box making, and made a "Wishing Box" for a friend's birthday. You can put your wishes inside and watch them come true!

Handmade Matryoshka Doll

These are Handmade Matryoshka Doll figurines. They are made from clay, then painted and glazed. Each doll is one of a kind, and comes with a box. If you are interested in purchasing a doll, follow this link to my esty shop. Thanks. http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5657994

Victorian Mystic

This new drawing reflects a few various influences: victorian era, victorian era science and mysticism, the fact that I have a witch in my family lineage. This piece is a bit like my drawing Yo-Yo Bird in that it represents my pre-concieved notions of this era / belief system without much knowledge on the subject.

Steel Tree

This is a piece I wrote on the big sculpture outside my work (MCASD) that people camp under like a tree. Click on the image to see a larger image and read the text.

Si, Pero Porque

Table drawing

Untitled Line Drawing

Plants on My Porch

Sewn Envelope

Here is another sewn creation. I made a drawing on a piece of tracing paper, then sewed it onto this old book page. I then folded the paper up under the drawing, leaving a few inches above, and sewed around the edges. Now I shall slip in a note and leave it for a friend.

Sewn Postcards

Here are my newest additions to Post Due (Postdue.com). I recently got a new
sewing machine, and have loved experimenting with sewing paper.

Object

I drew this object today at Krakatoa. It's some sort of double sided chair.

Who in Solitude

This is my most recent piece, Who in Solitude , named after a line in the Leonard Cohen song, "Who by Fire." This piece was done with various archival pens (Prismacolor and Faber Castel), marker, and watercolor. I will post a better image soon.

Baklava Encrusted Baked Bread

Per the request of Chris Puzio, here is a post of some recent writings:

Baklava Encrusted Baked Bread

The big black back and forth of
the camel back of time sweeps
and sweats silently.
It rolls on
and on and stops and on it rolls, rolling
and stopping with the wind.
it's tail is thick and warm like a donkey's and
always marking the baking sand it drags upon. Upon
the warm sand shuffling along with
a worn down rusted bit in its mouth,
it sags
from the weight
it encumbers.
Cucumber eyes filled with antiseptic sadness and sterility
soften the features of the lumbering beast.
Try to climb upon its sticky back,
grasp tight the shoestrings slapping,
stirring, try to climb,
and you might skid your knees on his porous flesh.
You might tumble down its back, caught
unaware by the methodical back and back
and forth and back and forth.
Try to climb and you may sink your hands deep under its hide,
and into its pouch
to find treats that offer themselves like candy
from a piñata
that has been wounded
and broken.
Something must be broken for the treats to come.
For the sweet sugary pops to be eaten.
something pink and phosphorescent and beautifully stagnant
must be torn
for the night to cease and
the pearly gumdrops to gather.
the catacombs filled with truffles and turtles and Turkish delight and
baklava encrusted baked bread are there too,
hidden inside
the languid roamer.
Six in one, half a dozen in the other,
where will your groping hands cast themselves?
Try to climb. Climb the bitter
cruel cyclical back of the black because
we must climb inside sugary time with
our mouths open and watering, and our eyes closed.
Try to climb the shoestrings,
shoeing your way through
the snow.

Women with Plastic Bags

Women with plastic bags at their feet
sit
at the Palomar Street trolley
stop.
They sit
and they wait.
There are five of them.
They are bored.
The young one in the middle sits
with her fingers in her mouth
and stroking her hair.
The ancients on the end
bob their heads
back
and forth,
the resign
to staring ahead at the empty ominous tracks.
They are bored.
Always staring forward
with plastic bags
at their feet.

Portland Pictures

I just spent a week in the beautiful city of Portland, Oregon with John, tasting brews in our walking shoes. Here are a couple of drawings I did on the trip.

Sunny Dale Park

Untitled City


In our walking, we came across a lovely little gallery and boutique in Alberta (in the NE), called Together. Check it out at Togethergallery.com

Wolf Parade Illustration

This is an illustration of Wolf Parade I did for daytrotter.com, largely based off their song "Modern World." Blogger didn't like the color version, so this is just the pen drawing without color. I'll try to fix the glitch soon. Check out Daytrotter and download some great tunes.

Mustache Mustache Mustache

This is a little mustache-mustache-man that i crocheted and stuffed with old pennysaver ads. Look at that stache!

Preston Family Crest

This is an illustration of the Preston family Crest I made for my dad's birthday. We have been tracking our genealogy, and and I thought this would make a good addition to the collection.

This is a Symphonia

Perferred Customer Illustration

These are my keys.

Post Due Illustrations

Here are some new Post Due illustrations of the fan and chair in my room. Check out more work, and the project at postdue.com

Dance with Mr. Bixby

What a Bow!

My French Press

Stacks and Stacks and Stacks

Groceries

Illustration of my phone and micron pen

Illustration of Pasta

For Kitty and Francis Paul, Post Due

These are my two new original artworks, and postcards for Post Due (postdue.com).
I'll be mailing them out to day, so keep an eye out Kitty (UK) and Francis (Netherlands).

Pet Peeves for Illustration Friday

This is my entry for this week's Illustration Friday topic: Pet Peeves...I'm a vegetarian.
Check out the collective at illustrationfriday.com.

Sprout

Here are a couple new drawings in a series entitled Sprout.

Michelle's Wedding Invitation

Voila. After a few hiccups in the project, I finally finished Michelle's wedding invitations, and we sent 'em off. Michelle and Jon are having a destination wedding in Cabo, hence my beach illustration on the inside flap. Congrats Jon and Michelle!

504 Gallery

Here are a couple pictures of my show at the 504 Gallery in Northpark this month. These images should make it round to the website soon enough. You can find a couple of these pieces on sale at Etsy.com (http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5657994). For other inquiries on purchasing my work, please send me an email at letschat@lindsay-preston.com. merci.

Languid-Land-Loomers

Time weighs heavy on the spry backs of
the languid castle builders; pushing. Pushing
their dark-steel-toes into the delicious
and moist chocolate earth
on which they discover another
crossroad-byway-highway-twig-place-by-the-sea,
on which to dispatch their lofties.
Lofts and crannies in the minds of the wanderers open
to all but close to some.
What a difference thirty minutes makes in a cross-town-train-ride.

Circus Dance

Sometimes I daydream

This is a new piece I'm working on...I may add some wood stain to various areas. My sister asked if it was about my bike accident....perhaps perhaps.

Exhibit!

I'll be showing a couple pieces at the 504 Gallery in North Park (on University) on February 9th, as part of Ray at Night.

Rubber Band Baroness

The Rubber-Band-Baroness
rubber bands, gold sequence, cherry 232 wood finish, wood panel, hot glue

Cowboy-Robot Drawing

This is the first of a series of drawings on wooden
panels with cherry 235 wood finish.

Baret-wearing-umbilical-cord-flyer

I drew this with my new Prismacolor markers that my mom
bought me for Christmas. Thanks mom!

The Mixer

This is The Mixer and this is his tail.

Some writings

Seven inches

Today I climbed over years of moments, tears and laughter.
I sifted in dark
heaps of remnants and ruin for hope
of a piece of a glimmer of a chance of a trinket
someone bought for no reason to collect dust and space.
Life is flattened into seven inches and porcelain becomes sacred.
A dozen people crowd around a 4x3 space for three-toxic-fume-filled-hours
working, digging, sweating, moving, moving
in hopes of finding a christmas ornament or a dog
tag from some war that has been fought and finished.
The overlooked becomes the sought after based on context and relativity.
Strangers become charitable and homes become abstract concepts.
Priorities and schedules flip-flop-whop, to be put on hold until
next week
when the routines will be resumed and the fallen forgotten.
Next week, strangers will cease to be charitable, and relapse
into being strangers.


Bed Quilt

bulbs of flickering warm somethings
dot the peripheries of that whimsy.
Whims are superfluously followed
by the indecisive wanderer, desperate
to change his habitual patterns.
Patterning on my bed quilt wraps me to sleep.
Sleeping sleep days are lulled by stagnant indifference.
Tired eyes cue the body to succumb to their lazy whimsies.
Eyes are at once the determinant and the determinee.
Fetters are loosening tongues as couples in some room
speak closely and slowly and softly to give
themselves assurance and accordance with the
fourth-of-july-truck-driving-Popsicle-gulping-intentions-actions.
I am falling asleeeeppp. S l e e e e p.
Goodnight lil' warm bulbs that tumble tots.


Interior Lit Submarines

It's odd on days like today how the dense
grey-matted-sky seamlessly becomes the ocean
and the two become indistinguishable.
On days like today the world is a grey torrent of inabsolutes.
On days like today, the windy rain whips into you
as the silent sky lays mockingly quiet,
yet protective in its violent spews.
On days like today, the creatures of the sea are free
to fly into the thick clouds, as airplanes are transformed into
interior lit submarines.


Everybody for Something

White curls bounce and tango to the tune
of the sweet promise of a call.
The base drums drum drum as angry men make greedy vacant threats
while simultaneously keeping the rhythm and adding delicious licks on his electric wonder.
Birthdays are celebrated with cupcakes and candles and lady singing a blues riff and
hopeful men spinning and pining for something.
Something for everybody.
Everybody for something.
Spastic speakers are being met on trolleys and speaking brilliant prose in a second language.
Time holds its breath for half-a-quarter-of-a-fraction-of-a-second,
because it is for this moment that time was made.


Brazen Bulldogs

The day is sounding. Sounding like squeaking slamming doors
and multiple samplings competing for space.
Space is given to utterances and sonatas...compartmentalized
and given arbitrary hierarchies.
The extraordinary is catalogued and slide tackled by the brazen.
Brazen bulldogs bearclaw bottles beneath blue behemoth
but betray backwards battles.
Battling for oxygen and stereopathic soul manure.
Naively and unaware, soundwaves enter into a
vacuum-tunnel-marathon-flag-encrusted-mud-speckled-
Astroturf-infested-gameof feeble competitors.
Pages are filed, books become encoded manuscripts
in an ephemeral Dewey Decimal system.
Systems, systematics, schematics, hydro-mats, pink jeweled cat backpacks,
snacking is the new three course meal.

The Flyers

This Drawing was done while watching a Woodstock DVD...

I'm not exactly sure where the bird imagery came from,

but it carried into my next drawing below.

Moonage Daydream

I think this drawing was subconsciously inspired by the David Bowie song, moonage daydream, so I suppose I shall title it appropriately as, Moonage Daydream. It is unfinished. I think I'll add the color in adobe illustrator.

Welcome to my bicycle land

The Smoking Hills

The smoking hills, 2007

Limerick of the Day

I also wrote my Limerick of the day on the same trolley ride:

Limerick of the day for November 10th:

The Mother Marys adorn the wrist,

of the bobbing-head-man who sleeps as he sits. 

We stop at Conifer and Palm,

as we speak of writing and songs,

and Mary lays still on the fingers that twist.

Mexico Spacemen

Here is a little drawing I did on the Trolly to Mexico, called Mexico Spacemen.

Some Sort of Quandary

Limerick of the day

Inspired by a witty poem of one Arthur Seamans, I have been trying to write a limerick every day. Bear with me, my prose has not yet been refined...

November 2nd:

My orange legginging day was quite nice.

This description is said without vice. 

Although sometimes quite bland, 

this small word I demand,

for today is the perfect device.

November 7th:

I heard that bad things come in threes.

Such a count of ill fate has ailed me. 

I've been sick and concussed,

and great fires have brushed,

Thus, for now in good fate I shall be. 

November 8th:

An elephant suit can be made from a sheet.

In living rooms we have mastered this feat. 

Simply sinch round your head,

wrapping both sides o'er again,

until a trunk can be formed so to eat.

Object Drawing