I devoted pretty much all of my Sunday this week to try out a couple of ideas that I had recently. First up was a shirt with a bleached design. I went with a simple coy inspired design. It wasn’t completely successful, but it came out well enough to encourage me to try it again (perhaps combining it with screen printing in some way). Next up was a business card holder made with those cool melty beads I used to make my nintendo themed ornaments. This was also not entirely successful, but I was really just testing it out. Turns out it is not very easy to fuse together a box made of these beads. Next go around I’ll probably use some sort of glue or epoxy to bind together the sides. All in all, these were really fun things to try out! (Click the thumbnails for the whole gallery of images).

Also, Saturday night I went out to see a friend of mine and his band Vinny Vegas play at The Ottobar. I highly recommend, they put on a really great show.

Today I cracked open the screen printing gifts my girlfriend purchased me for my birthday and delved into the world of screens, inks, and squeegees.

I think for a first attempt, it was pretty successful. Kelsey and I both sport our brand new Panda Shirts!™

It’s a little rough, because I used a hand-drawn method using drawing fluid and screen filler. My hand isn’t the steadiest with a paintbrush, and the drawing fluid is much more watery than I anticipated, but I think it turned out well regardless.

Look out for my clothing line, coming soon!