Studio Life

One of the best parts of our Surtex experience this year was being able to meet and become friends with the artists in booths adjacent to our own (we felt so lucky to have such a nice “neighborhood” there at the cross section of 500 and the 50s), so we’d like to spend a few posts featuring these kind creatives

To continue with our Surtex saga: When we arrived at Jacob Javits, we went straight to our booth and were delighted to see this: Our boxes! And from these boxes we were able to do this on the first set-up day: Above from top left clockwise: 1. Cathy pulling out our pre-made ready-to-hang presentation boards  2. Ellen examining Jim’s very

Whew!  We are back from Surtex in New York.  Surtex is a trade show held in the Jacob Javits Center, where surface designers and illustrators show their work to companies who need artwork to adorn their products.  You might wonder where a surface artist’s art finds itself … well, look around … Are you wearing a t-shirt?  Art. Are you

In one week, we should be in New York, setting up our Surtex booth and celebrating the completion of a few months of preparation, form-filling, printing, pasting, cutting, mocking-up, folding, sealing, and fantasizing about sleeping. We’re pretty excited about the booth.  We will be residing in the most beautifully-decorated 8’x10′ melamine cubicle available – booth #550, if you happen to

The season for tapping birch sap is very short, but we were in Lithuania when it happened. I don’t think I had ever seen the sap of a tree before – not in its watery-state, at least.  In California, we have eucalyptus trees that ooze crystals of red amber and make the sidewalk sticky, so I suppose I imagined that