breakcomics

2012-01-16T17:27:00.000-08:00

Plant silk screens.

2012-01-06T17:02:00.000-08:00

A 2011 calendar thien and i drew and designed together. A series of 50 were silkscreened.

2011-12-31T09:58:00.001-08:00

Second Inkling test. Flowers from my mom.

2011-12-31T09:57:00.000-08:00

first test with Inkling. Orange soda can.

2011-11-16T15:25:00.001-08:00

Commissioned drawing for a wedding invitation.

2011-10-31T22:19:00.000-07:00

An oven mitt i made for my friend peter... It is also a sort of portrait of him. Happy birthday, peter!

2011-10-12T17:23:00.000-07:00

This is called a "Gurgle Pot". Its a pitcher, when poured makes a gurgling bubbly noise as the water fills back up into the tail. It was a gift from a very good friend. Also, it is light green.

2011-10-06T13:03:00.000-07:00

Purple and yellow plaid: a commissioned giraffe.

2011-09-29T10:08:00.000-07:00

Water color giraffes for APE.

2011-09-18T19:18:00.000-07:00

Title page for my new comic that will be available at APE - the Alternative Press Expo. This yearly favorite comic convention of mine is in San Francisco October 1st and 2nd this year.

2011-09-07T20:08:00.000-07:00

A friend gave me this teacup a couple years ago and until this weekend it sat empty on the window sill. But now it has a little cactus growing in it from our garden.

2011-08-28T22:12:00.001-07:00

Our jade plant in the back yard. This is part of a series of silk screens i am doing for APE (the alternative press expo) in october.

2011-08-17T17:45:00.001-07:00

I attempted to make some star trek: the next generation fan art but this was as far as i got and then gave up.

2011-08-10T21:23:00.001-07:00

My laptop and mouse.

2011-08-03T13:21:00.001-07:00

Living room chair with my cat taking a rest.

2011-07-14T16:22:00.000-07:00

My scanner isnt working. This is a drawing i did for my junior high art camp i am teaching. We are doing fan art.

2011-07-14T09:58:00.001-07:00

Poster for an S. Clay Wilson benefit event.

2011-07-07T15:27:00.000-07:00

I am working on a cook book comic. Here is a panel from the new book. The theme is recipes that include butter because, well, i love butter. I am still open to ideas for dishes that i can create recipes for. If you have ideas, post them here!

2011-06-30T08:09:00.000-07:00

Someone asked to see what was under my bed. Your wish is my command: It is 5 pairs of my husbands tennis shoes and a scale. Less mysterious than one might hope.

2011-06-23T08:01:00.000-07:00

I found this sketchbook drawing yesterday. I drew it the day my lungs were embolisming.

2011-06-22T21:49:00.001-07:00

The wall of the breakfast nook on wednesday afternoon.

2011-06-15T20:51:00.000-07:00

The first photobooth picture set that steve and i took together. I believe it was at the state fair.

2011-06-03T11:26:00.000-07:00

I realize this is cheating because i have already posted this drawing. It is from my comic 'chickadee', but is also my desk! So, it counts as stuff i own. Everything else in the drawing is made up, please ignore.

2011-05-26T08:57:00.000-07:00

This is the toothpaste we use. Thien tells me this is weird.

2011-05-18T17:56:00.000-07:00

Our house.

2011-05-14T11:16:00.000-07:00

Steve and i are going to get a dog. So, in honor of this i am drawing this royal dalton dog figurine my mom gave to me when i was little. We are not getting this kind of dog.

2011-05-05T15:17:00.003-07:00

All our bowls.

2011-05-02T10:43:00.000-07:00

Faucets in our house as per request.

2011-04-15T08:33:00.000-07:00

Even though i support the authentic fan, i love the a's best. Here is my old a's chewing gum tin.

2011-04-07T08:31:00.000-07:00

Here are the shoes i wear the least as per request. I love them, but the heels are too high for my janky feet. In real life they are navy leather and cream colored lace.

2011-03-23T23:18:00.001-07:00

Ms. Counts requested to see my spice cabinet. So here it is! Requests and suggestions are welcome.

2011-03-22T17:07:00.000-07:00

Poster idea for the short film that Steve is making.

2011-03-17T16:42:00.000-07:00

Jacob gave me my wallet when my old wallet was stolen back in 2002/2003. Luckily this wallet intimidates all potential wallet stealers.

2011-03-11T11:11:00.000-08:00

Thien and i have a new blog. Check it out.

2011-03-09T08:12:00.000-08:00

Shirts that thien and i made for valentine's day.

2011-03-01T09:31:00.001-08:00

We have had this can opener since i was a little girl. It is the best.

2011-02-21T16:34:00.000-08:00

These are all the paintings, prints, photographs, maps, drawings and instruments that hang on the walls of our living room.

2011-02-14T11:34:00.000-08:00

Valentine's Day cards. There was also a blue one, but i gave all of those away before i took photos of them.

2011-01-31T13:59:00.000-08:00

One of the bookcases in my living room.

2011-01-25T18:23:00.000-08:00

Here are all my keys. I drew this with no pencils, just ink to paper, so you can see the parts i messed up on. My apologies.

2011-01-20T17:35:00.000-08:00

For christmas tshirts this year, thien and i drew our cats. These are mine: Penny and onions.

i screened one onesey for some friends who are expecting a baby sooooooon.

here is a better view of the amazing onions shirts.

2011-01-06T08:20:00.000-08:00

Sewing scissors.

2010-12-22T22:06:00.000-08:00

My great grandmothers locket that my mom gave me for my 21st (?) birthday. The photos inside are of my great grandmother and my grandmother.

2010-12-09T08:40:00.000-08:00

Our light-up santa lamp means its almost christmas!

2010-12-02T08:24:00.000-08:00

Thien gave me Rollbar, a transforming red bull delivery truck.

2010-11-18T15:54:00.000-08:00

gift from husband.

2010-11-10T21:39:00.000-08:00

small desk lamp.

2010-11-06T15:53:00.000-07:00

Tennis shoes.

2010-11-01T19:19:00.000-07:00

Remote controls. I must admit that i probably dont know what most of these buttons do.

2010-10-28T18:31:00.000-07:00

Arm chair, that is part of a set that my great great grandmother brought over to america from austria. I dont think she ever would have guessed my grandmother would have had it covered in tiny palm trees (palm trees not represented in this collage).

2010-10-24T19:07:00.000-07:00

This weekend i decided to draw every t-shirt i own. I put them in chronological order from when i got them. A few of the years are guesses.

2010-10-20T18:15:00.000-07:00

This is my pentax K1000. Steve gave it as a birthday present to me for the first birthday i had while we were dating. He engraved it on the back with the engraver he also gave me for that birthday.

2010-10-18T17:39:00.000-07:00

I am starting a new project! It's called "everything i own". I am going to try to draw at least one thing in my apartment every week. The first installment in this project is:
These are salt and pepper shakers that my dear friend amber gave me a couple years ago. In real life they are green.

2010-10-14T18:18:00.000-07:00

this second post is the valentine's day card i made this year. Two layers of silkscreening. The top layer was two tones of blue on blue paper. Inside the doors had the red screened and each card got a personal message in the red frame.

doors closed.

doors open.

2010-10-14T18:10:00.000-07:00

hi blog. I have been pretty busy this year and haven't posted much... But i had a good reason: steve and i got married! In honor of love and art, here are two posts. This first one is our wedding invitation and map made by lark pien and thien pham.

2010-06-29T16:08:00.000-07:00

shirt design for a bachelorette party shirt.

2010-05-27T14:24:00.000-07:00

Shirt design for some girls who are graduating (they play basketball).

2010-02-15T10:48:00.000-08:00

shirts that thien and i made for valentine's day:

15 dollars each. Email me if you have questions or would like to purchase a shirt!

2010-02-02T12:38:00.000-08:00

2010-01-27T09:30:00.000-08:00

left-handed rain.

2010-01-18T18:41:00.000-08:00

Someone is publishing a giant annotated bibliography of the poetry of my dad, Richard Krech. This is the cover illustration i did for the book.

2010-01-03T21:30:00.000-08:00

Thien and I made a deck of Historical Playing Cards for holiday presents this year. Thien did the face cards for the hearts and clubs, while i did the diamonds and spades. We both drew parts for the back of the cards. All of the face cards were either chosen for a famous jack, queen or king or named after someone who has jack, queen or king as part of their name.

Here are some examples:

jackie robinson

elvis
queen elizabeth Ijfk

one of the jokers was groucho

We have more decks for sale, please email me if you are interested.

2009-11-28T14:54:00.000-08:00

I am working on my left-handed drawing. Here are some grouchos:

2009-11-05T15:11:00.000-08:00

Here are some of the illustrations that have been taking up a lot of my time these last few months. They are for Key Curriculum Press, a math textbook company.

2009-10-10T17:15:00.000-07:00

Thien and i have a show up at the bedford gallery in walnut creek until november 15th. It displays all of our market street kiosk posters as well as a retrospective of the kiosk project since 1991.

2009-10-10T17:07:00.000-07:00

Cover for new comic. It is the third in the simple and still trilogy.

2009-10-10T17:05:00.000-07:00

Getting ready for ape! (October 17th and 18th at the Concourse Exhibition Center in SF.)

2009-09-05T18:29:00.000-07:00

Gabrielle modeling one of the shirts WHILE she djs!
Shirt that thien and i designed for the Mixtape summer camp dance dj night. It was their 5th anniversary of this theme. I did the lettering, thien did the campfire drawing and we designed it together.

2009-06-15T10:05:00.000-07:00

this is a guest book for a wedding. I did the illustration and design for the pages. They wanted something more personal than your average wedding guest book. There were four different page layouts which repeated throughout this hand bound book.
They got the book printed at Golden Gate Litho.

Here are the digital layouts. They look so different from the printed pages!

2009-06-13T18:40:00.000-07:00

view from window.

2009-05-28T07:23:00.001-07:00

new tshirt for the missouri lounge pub quiz.

2009-05-28T07:21:00.000-07:00

front of a high school graduation card i made. The graduate is going to be studying ballet at a college whose colors are navy and gold.

2009-05-14T09:00:00.000-07:00

getting portrait taken w bird.

2009-05-14T08:41:00.000-07:00

detail of desk.

2009-05-06T08:23:00.000-07:00

Gorgon for album artwork for a band...

2009-04-04T09:28:00.000-07:00

2009-03-31T10:21:00.000-07:00

2009-03-20T10:30:00.000-07:00

ink drawing for new comic...

2009-03-20T10:28:00.000-07:00

illustration for kellies business card (she is a hair cutter/stylist person)

2009-03-20T10:21:00.000-07:00

2009 valentines day shirt design.
(feat T.I.)

2009-01-24T13:34:00.000-08:00

Golden city workshop at the cartoon art museum saturday, january 25th.
Demonstrations of how to put comics together on the computer. Also have a room where you can hand silkscreen
<-- THIS flier.
It will be fun...
I promise.

2009-01-21T21:25:00.001-08:00

hermit thrush
watercolor, 4x6

2009-01-21T21:23:00.000-08:00

racket-tailed roller
watercolor, 4x6

2009-01-21T21:22:00.000-08:00

lesser sulpher-crested cockatoo
water color, 4x6

2009-01-13T14:20:00.001-08:00

sketches for new comic?

2009-01-10T09:05:00.000-08:00

i will be having a short cartoonist in residence at the charles schultz museum today from 1-3.

2008-12-29T20:59:00.000-08:00

41 years ago my dad had a "cameo" in the Graduate. And for 41 years he has been wanting a poster with the correct actor on the front. So, i made this for him for christmas. It is made from a screenshot i got of him from the movie.

2008-12-09T12:46:00.001-08:00

card i made for steve to give the crew for the movie he is filming... there is a giant clapping monkey and a robot in it...

2008-12-08T21:11:00.000-08:00

click here to read a press release!

This is a collaboration w thien pham... who is amazing. Hope you can make it to market street one day in the next three months. The posters are awesome.

2008-10-28T07:02:00.000-07:00

Cant wait! Bring your friends. APE is open from 11 to 7 on saturday and 11 to 6 on sunday.

2008-10-26T16:23:00.000-07:00

'pleased to meet you.'

2008-10-25T11:39:00.000-07:00

sold

2008-10-22T09:29:00.000-07:00

new postcard series for ape!
comes as a set of three hand silk-screened postcards, each 4x6

2008-10-19T18:36:00.000-07:00

3 by 3
hard to depict, this is a very thin silk.

2008-10-19T17:06:00.000-07:00

framed clothes drawings.

2008-10-19T16:32:00.000-07:00

sold

2008-10-18T15:59:00.000-07:00

4 by 6 inches.
sold

2008-10-18T15:04:00.000-07:00

3 by 5 inches.

2008-10-18T11:53:00.000-07:00

this is where i spend all my time now. I cant wait for ape!

2008-10-18T10:22:00.000-07:00

4 by 4 inches. Skirt w white stitching.