illustration. dogs. liza. oakland.
Friendlies,
I’m finally catching up with the work I’ve been doing in 2012. So TODAY! FOR YOU! there are four NEW! entries on the Wertzateria shop page. Work I’ve been designing (and printing) for the Oakland Museum of California, ALO, and the Camper Van / Cracker Family is all up now and purchasable through this lovely invention called PayPal. Have you heard of it? It’s sweeping the nation!
All of these were lovingly printed by hand (by me) at Bloom Press in Oakland. Go check ‘em out.
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Hey kids,
It’s been a busy summer in the silkscreen studio, and finally I can share some of the work I’ve been producing. There’s a mess of new stuff to peruse on the shop page: the collaborative book by Mister Jim Winters and myself, Queen for Two Weeks, numbered and signed and packed up pretty in a cellophane wrapper. The super-tall-and super-fifties Sutro Tower screenprint. The longer-than tall Lake Merritt (featuring the also-longer-than-tall Lake Merritt Monster). There is also a photograph of an attractive young man modeling the t-shirt design (it looks just like the Sutro Tower print) I did for therethere.
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are waiting for you at the wertzateria shop. I just updated the site, and that shop page is jam packed with stuff to buy your friends who have birthdays in January. NOTE: with every order in January, you will get a free 2011 Dog Dreams Calendar! (This offer doesn’t apply to outside vendors, like Oaklandish.)
Those Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker folks (who were nice enough to hire me to do another poster for their end-of-year shows) never disappoint! The show at the Independent in San Fransassy was sold-out, and they said they had some “surprises” in store. Well, turned out their rhythm section was stuck in the blizzard, so they had to improvise. It was still (yet again) an amazing show! The Wertzateria even got a nice shout-out from David and Victor.
I just finished a new tee-shirt design for There There, a spin-off company of Oaklandish. It’s my favorite San Francisco landmark, Sutro Tower.
I am charging a few doll-hairs for the 2011 calendars, but if you’re lucky enough to live close to Cafe 504 in Oakland, I’ll be dropping a few off there that you can go and grab for free. If you do go there, make sure and buy a delicious warm beverage and a home-made sweet. This café has made this sleepy little neighborhood into a community, and we’re lucky to have them!
Many thanks go to my copiously talented sister Julie Wertz for designing the Dog Dreams calendar (and making it happen every year!). Thanks also to Lee Wood Press for printing the calendars, and to Hanson Digital for the scans of the Dog Dreams prints.
Speaking of Dog Dreams, I have 2 or 3 of those little books left. If you want one, get one now. They’ll be gone soon.
Happy New Year, everyone! I hope you had a most wonderful Holiday season.
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Dear Friends Who Are Wearing Sweaters,
I’d like to cordially invite you all to my very first Studio Sale at the new silkscreen studio (*Inky Oxnard) in West Oakland. I’ve invited some amazingly cool (and talented!) friends to join me: Isabel Samaras, Dave Warnke, Jim Winters, and Lloyd Dangle.
This is going to be EPIC, people.
The sparkly wonderland of gifts that will await your arrival: screenprints at ridiculously low prices, lovingly printed teeshirts, framed pieces, a few pieces on wood from Super Furry Animals, landscapes, Squirrel Plates, stickers, books, paintings on canvas, wood, and cardboard. There will be gifts to fit every budget. We will make it worth your while, people. PLUS there will be snacks. Oh, yes. You read that right. Snacks.
This is Inky, welcoming you to the studio. Go ahead, have some hooch! If he had arms, he’d hug you. Inky’s had a hard year.
Isabel Samaras is bringing:
* Collector Porcelain Plates (think Hamilton Mint but much, much cooler) of the image “Nutz!”, both signed/numbered limited editions and “seconds” with slight damages at huuuuge discount!
* Fabulous books and postcard books that can be signed and personalized! (Including: “On Tender Hooks“, “Isabel Samaras Postcards” and “Devil Babe’s Big Book of Fun!”)
* Limited edition signed and numbered jigsaw puzzles!
* Signed button sets!
Jim Winters will be selling his stunning silk screened landscape prints:
Dave Warnke is hard at work on some goofy gumdrop paintings. Yes. You can have one. Don’t eat it.
Lloyd Dangle is a master of all things comic:
And here’s a print you might like. These things will be priced to MOVE, people.
Have we enticed you? Will you turn away from Facebook long enough to come visit and have some cider? It will be hard, I know, but I have confidence in YOU!
The Deets:
Inky Oxnard’s Holiday Frenzy
December 11, 2010. 11 am – 5 pm
3264 Ettie Street, Oakland, CA 94608
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* Inky Oxnard is Andy’s Porn Name.
Hello Friendlies,
I got a phone call from the fine folks at Camelbak a few days back. They had a box of samples to mail to me. I was expecting to see more Pirates or Mermaids, but it was a box full of a new Dog-Style Winter Design called Blue Wonderland!
This was a design I completed back in March of 2009, so it was a pleasant surprise to see the finished bottles.
I did a little bit more digging, and found that all the bottle designs I did for Camelbak are available through the lovely folks at Amazon.
Here’s a link to the small kid’s bottles (the pirate, mermaids, and zinnias styles are mine – also available in stainless steel) and here’s a link to the Blue Wonderland bottle.
‘Blue Wonderland’ sounds like a delicious beverage you might enjoy while having a staring contest with a tiki. Nearby, there might be a tiki torch, or even a ukelele. A pufferfish might be sitting on the barstool next to you. This particular Blue Wonderland was inspired by the fact that we dog owners have to take our dogs out to … do their … business. Even in snow.
Here’s how the whole design looks.
Here’s the pirates and mermaids.
