6/20/10

Being that today we're headed over to my good friend Michelle and John's wedding, I'm posting something I did a while back - their wedding invitation design.  If you're wondering why there are weird blank spaces, it's cuz they're getting married at a residence, so yeah.  I also designed a map card, but since it's basically all about their address, it will have to remain a secret.

I also had to design a Chinese language version...not the easiest thing to do when you don't know kanji.

These were actually letterpressed on Crane Pearl Lettra, so the blue gets toned down a bit on the soft creamy paper, and you don't get such a crazy bright look. 

Anyway, congrats Mitchelle and John!  Woooooo!

I need some focus

So my sleep cycle has been seriously messed up this past week due to Spring Break. Also, on Saturday night I ended up falling asleep early, like at around 6pm. I ended up waking up at 10pm, then I stayed up a nice 27 hours through Sunday. I then woke up at 3pm on Monday, slept at 3am Tuesday morning, then fell asleep at 10pm Tues.night. Now, it's 6:38am on Wednesday. I ended up waking up at about 2am, tossing and turning and thinking for 3 hours until 5, when I got up, showered, ate some rice, and have been fucking around on the computer for a while now.

The thing that really gets me is that I was super awake in bed thinking about art, and projects I want to work on, and shit I'm excited about, but once I got my ass up and ready to work on stuff, all my motivation drains out of me and I just want to play Settlers of Catan online for hours on end. Gah!

Anyway, on a good note, I finally got the barebones of Little Yeti up and running, and you can check out my site and my Little yeti blog at www.littleyeticave.com. Woot! Now I just need to fill in all those goddamn filler pagers with some actual content. Sigh. So much to do, yet after I finish posting this instead of editing the zine I need to publish, paint, design my personal website, etc., etc., etc., guess what I'm going to go play?

Zombie Wedding

So I don't think I posted this before (sorry if I have), but this is my Watercolor final project from last semester. I think it's some 25-30 hours of work, yet it still has a long way to go. I'm thinking of calling this a "study" as a practice go for a huge-ass painting I want to do that'll maybe be more realistic and stuff.

Copyright 2008, Rick Kitagawa. "Zombies versus Wedding." Watercolor on Arches Cold Press Watercolor paper, 18"x24."

On another note, I've decided that I'm going to start listening to my "essential self" more when it comes to art projects.

Hopefully in my "free time" I'll be working on some zombie studies, some cryptid paintings, and trying to figure out what the hell I'm doing next semester. Huzzah.

On a sort of different note, I've been taking classes at the SF Center for the Book. Or I should say this weekend I am taking a 3-day class to get certified to rent time on the Center's Vandercooks! (those are letterpresses for those who don't know). Huzzah! Soon, I will be printing as much shit as I can a)afford and b)make time for. Also, my instructor is Megan Adie, and you totally need to check out this fucking awesome print she did meshing trendy shit with a raging bear. I laughed at this for like 10 minutes the other day and am currently chuckling now that I think about it. "REAL BEAR!!!" he he he...

Anyhoo, off to class to do some book binding and hopefully more printing!