I've had the pleasure of being involved the the design of several projects for Shipyard Skateboards this year.  Not only as part of their website redesign (pictured at the top and bottom of this post), but also getting to illustrate 2 different screen printed skate decks.  Shipyard Skates is a skater owned small company that screen prints all of its decks on custom shaped wood.  Support a great company!  Shipyard Skates

See the detailed photo of the Belly Dancer deck

Buy the Belly Dancer deck on the Shipyard site

See the detailed photo of the Moose deck

Buy the Moose deck on the Shipyard site

Support small, skater owned companies!  shipyardskates.bigcartel.com/

In Mermaid Beach, Australia, a show titled "Small" opens tonight.  It is curated by R. Nicholas Kuszyk, and features 20 american artists, including myself.  See the works and read more about the artists on the 19 Karen website.

Coming down this week (but still time to see them!)...

"With Much Haste" at  Commonwealth Skate shop in Portland, Oregon; featuring Michael Broth,  Rob Lee, Huy Nguyen, Natalie Anne Howard, and myself.

"RVA Street Art Satellite Gallery" group show presented by J Fergeson Gallery at 109 S. 14th St. Richmond, VA comes down at the end of the weekend. 

The opening is this Friday, April 6th at 6PM.  Commonwealth is located at 1425 SE 20th Ave., Portland, OR 97214.  Here is the facebook event page if you're in search of more info.

Books on Wheels is a Richmond, VA based non-profit organization that provides free books and free bicycle repair. Since 2007, they have donated over 40,000 books and worked on hundreds of bicycles all over the country in an attempt to promote literacy and healthy lifestyles.

Over the course of the past 6 years, Books on Wheels has operated out of 2 really amazing school buses that they very intentionally painted bright colors to draw attention and create excitement. 2 years ago, they sold their small school bus in order to downsize and boost productivity within our organization. More recently, they sold the large school bus to a really great local organization and bought a Ford Transit Van to use for all of the Books on Wheels events. Now that the organization has become even more manageable and efficient, They are ready to decorate the van!!

They are raising funds through a kickstarter project to buy magnets, decals, and signs to decorate the van.  I provided some artwork for these decals and signs, as well as the the shirt graphic below.  They've already meet the very modest goal set here, but additional funds go to a great cause (plus you get a shirt!). Check it out and spread the word.

Books On Wheels Kickstarter

See a larger view of the van decals here

I'm probably posting this too late for people to pick this up from the news stands, but I illustrated a four page spread for Thrasher Magazine issue #373 ( August 2011).  The article, titled "Slam Demons", was written by Adam Creagan and is a list of different types of personified skate wrecks.  In case your local skate shop doesn't have any extra copies laying around, you can see the art and read piece on the Thrasher website.

Staf Magazine, based in Malaga, Spain, just published this interview with me centered around the Summon the Snakebeast project I did for Carhartt.  Read the original spanish language version or the english translation.
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