Renegade 2012, here comes ERMA

LONG TIME NO POST

Hi friends,
I was HACKED! My websites and email was hacked and I have not had access to this blog in quite some time. I will do my best to make up for the lack of posts. To start, here are some fun kids graphic I worked on this year.

Help my neighbors.

There was a CRAZY fire on my street yesterday. 2 residential buildings (and one non residential) were destroyed. The (incredible) Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence will be hosting a fundraiser tomorrow from 3-7pm at The Edge Bar, in the Castro to gather donations for the fire victims. They will be collecting $, clothing, blankets, and household items.

Read about the fire HERE

Sisters Western Addition Fire Recovery Effort & Beer Bust.
The Edge Bar
4149 18th Street (at Collingwood)
3:00-7:00pm
Saturday Dec 24th, 2011 

 

Renegade Craft Fair December 17th and 18th, SF

 
INFO HERE

Keds Poster

Keds Hired me to do a poster for a sales meeting.

Animated gifs rule

photographs and animation made by the super talent MANFACE

Photobooth babes.

Hollow Mirrors Poster

ERMA Summer 2011

I never thought I'd be running low on brass chain IN MY LIFE. Anyone have a good source?

Erma snapshots

I thought I'd give my back a break (no pun intended) and take some pictures to break up the jewelry slouching assembly position. I forgot that since I have no formal studio for either of these things, they both hurt. I hope I sell all the designs to support my physical therapy bill! Now I'm on the verge of pain tears and tears of joy! It's amazing seeing the 2011 collection come together after digging through what seemed like a mountain of findings and hardware. Here are some more snapshots with a picture of what was happening seconds before the white paper took its place.

SEE ALL PICS HERE!








SEE ALL PICS HERE!

New Erma Jewelry and Renegade SF

I will be attending Renegade Craft Fair San Francisco on July 9th and 10th at Fort Mason Pavilion. I've been locking myself in my studio/living room (ok, besides my trips to Russian River 2x and to Lake Del Valle) and have a few new designs that I'm super excited about. Here is a couple of snap shots:

Nike Tshirts!

What seems like forever ago, Nike commissioned me to do a series of 5 drawings for tshirts. The first one has arrived!! I cannot find where to buy it online, but as soon as I figure it out with the help of a team of detectives over at Nike, I will plug the link in. Until then, here is a snapshot for your viewing pleasure.

Bicycle Show Posters

I was commissioned to do two Bicycle show posters. Enjoy!

Love Life

I recently made an illustration to try to collect donations to help my friends in Japan. They are collecting funds for Civic Force through their shop
DEPOT (Civic Force (emergency response team) responds to large scale
natural disasters in Japan, and is established for realizing a more effective and prompt disaster relief by cooperating closely with NGOs, business community and government of Japan.) All Proceeds from this print will be going to this relief fund.

HERE is a direct link to the donations page.

Please contact me and let me know how you would like to receive it, either printed or digital. Digital has no shipping fees and I will email you a high res image for your printing pleasure. If you choose this option - 100% of the price will be donated. For Printed I will only take away the exact amount of printing/shipping supplies cost plus the exact cost of shipping. I will then make a custom listing for you. Any amount that you can afford will help!

HERE is the Etsy listing if you want a physical print.

If you choose to donate directly, I will send you over a Hi Res file with a screen shot of the finished process. Same goes for Red Cross or any other organization collecting relief.

You can see a larger version HERE

This is the only way I know how to tempt more people to contribute and I cant stress enough how important it is to help. Just take a little time to scroll through THESE before and after photos to see the intensity of the damage.


Thanks!

Emily

Please help Japan

For those of you who know me, you know I have been traveling to Japan for the past 7 years. I think I have been there a total of 11 times and just got back from my last trip last week! Every time I go I am welcomed with open arms, loving hearts and many many presents. Japan is a culture of much gift giving and more love than I could have ever imagined. I have very dear friends there who all contribute to the community, make, bake, entertain and enlighten.

My friends at DEPOT Cycle and Recycle who have been my gracious hosts almost every time I visit (read more about Seiya HERE), are reaching out to their overseas friends to help their country get through this horrific tragedy that has happened. Depot has started a donations page through Justgiving Japan in which they are trying to raise money to donate to Civic Force. Civic Force is an emergency response team which responds to large scale natural
disasters in Japan, and is established for realizing of more effective and prompt disaster relief by cooperating closely with NGOs, business community and government of Japan. PLEASE...help them. And repost. If we all donate a little we can help A LOT.

DONATE HERE.

It is in Japanese but has a pdf instruction in English at the top right corner as well as a translation button when you actually start the donation process. Please take the time to do this.

It's all in the details

I just finished a commissioned portrait that I believe is my most detailed portrait to date. I've never had the challenge of a short beard. The beard alone took me about 4 hours. My eyes are watering.