how i’m spending my saturday evening
January 21, 2012
Hey, want one of my new drawings on a t-shirt?
How about a hoodie?
I can make that happen for you. Click! HERE.
Posted by jodi on January 21, 2012 at 8.43pm
new bandannas in the shop. and some of them say bingo!
December 24, 2011
Here are a few of my favourites.
Woodcut on new (vintage) fabric:
Woodcut and letterpress on new (vintage) fabric:
Woodcut and letterpress on new (vintage) fabric:
Woodcut on upcycled fabric:
Lots more, right here!
Posted by jodi on December 24, 2011 at 8.43pm
new printing
December 14, 2011
This new batch of bandannas in progress has printing from some familiar old woodblocks and a fun letterpress block, recently acquired, that says BINGO on it. Everybody loves to shout BINGO!, right?
They’re now all edged and washed and only need to be ironed and photographed before they make their way into the shop. If this grey rainy weather can offer up enough light to get some pictures. . .
Posted by jodi on December 14, 2011 at 9.40am
i have something awesome to show you
December 10, 2011
I missed this in my weblog feeds while I was away on vacation and when it finally came to my attention, it blew me away! I’ve been following Sandra’s weblog for a while, from back when I used to troll the Wardrobe Remix group on flickr looking for people with fun and quirky style. Last month she bought a couple of my woodblock printed bandannas from Ye Olde Etsy Shoppe The Second, and look what she did with them!
This is totally adorable and an idea I’m thinking about stealing. How cute would it be to sew four of these panels together instead of two, throw a belt over it and presto, instant dress? It’s a casual, easy style I’ve long loved, reminiscent of the clothing designs of Russian avant-garde artists Varvara Stepanova and Liubov Popova, which are constructed to make the most of whole, uncut cloth. These designers also influenced Andrea Zittel’s Personal Panel Uniforms series, and all in turn influenced my masters thesis, The Wardrobe Project (I mentioned them all in my thesis report, which you can download and read here, if you like). Now I need to crank up bandanna production so I can try out some dresses!
Posted by jodi on December 10, 2011 at 3.41pm
introducing. . .
November 1, 2011
My new (second) etsy store, where I’ll be listing all of my printed clothing, bags and accessories from now on. Click on the banner. CLICK. ON. THE. BANNER.
Today I uploaded a selection of the woodblock printed bandannas I was working on last week. Here’s a peek at a few of my favourites:
Posted by jodi on November 1, 2011 at 8.18pm
october 29 studio video: this is maybe gross?
October 29, 2011
Here is a video of some fabric squares I printed and hemmed up for bandannas:
Some of the squares are cut from yardage of new-but-vintage fabrics from The Fabric Store That Time Forgot. Others are cut from reclaimed fabrics, some pieces of unused yardage from someone else’s sewing room that ended up in a thrift store, and some from secondhand bedsheets and duvet covers. I’m pretty picky when choosing secondhand fabrics to use, and they get washed both before and after printing so there aren’t any traces of other-people-guck in them. But a Skype chat I had with Peter last night (he’s out of town for work) got me wondering if other people maybe aren’t as okay as I am with repurposing fabrics that others have slept against into items to be worn on such intimate areas as head and neck. Here’s the relevant excerpt from our chat:
jodichartreuse: are you coming to the bazaar after you get home? i will have the car
jodichartreuse: weird eh
Peter Zimmerman: yes, i will come
Peter Zimmerman: unless it’s totally raining
jodichartreuse: okay! bring otisfamily!*
jodichartreuse: no rain in the forecast, i’m not even gonna bother with the tent i don’t think
Peter Zimmerman: it’s not like your stuff is made of paper or anything!
Peter Zimmerman: or cotton candy
jodichartreuse: yeah well the tent is in a bundle on the back porch with puddles in it. that will fall on my paper too
Peter Zimmerman: or witches
jodichartreuse: my work might contain a couple of witches
jodichartreuse: new bandannas fucking rock by the way
jodichartreuse: better than the old ones
Peter Zimmerman: poor selinda**
jodichartreuse: i told her she can trade up
Peter Zimmerman: no!
jodichartreuse: hah why not
Peter Zimmerman: ugh, nobody wants second head bandanas!
jodichartreuse: nah, i can print more on them for her though
jodichartreuse: look some of these bandannas are made from old bedsheets
jodichartreuse: thrice washed
jodichartreuse: people have to start thinking about the fucking environment
jodichartreuse: says the lady who stunk up The House with ink off-gassing today
Peter Zimmerman: it’s the fucking environment of someone else’s head!
jodichartreuse: thrice. washed.
Peter Zimmerman: it’s like shoes, or underwear
Peter Zimmerman: i mean i’m all about the environment, but
jodichartreuse: also some are dyed, that’s like an extra wash because of all the heat and salt.
jodichartreuse: well we shall see. if people are creeped out they can just be unfashionable i don’t give a shit.
Peter Zimmerman: i suppose i bought a used toque once
Peter Zimmerman: got me there!
jodichartreuse: some are new fabric, i will be quite open about it all. especially the thrice washed part.
jodichartreuse: used bras.
jodichartreuse: HE HAS PLACED HIS NIPPLES WHERE I HAVE RESTED MINE***
I really hope people aren’t creeped out, because I lied: I DO want those people to look fashionable. Thrice washed, people. That is a lot of washes. With Borax, even. Am I setting myself up for everyone thinking my work is gross?
*otisfamily are picking Peter up at the airport, because even though I have the car! and my licence! now, I’ll be busy at the Midtown Bazaar. Selling lovingly hand printed and THRICE WASHED bandannas, I hope.
**selinda is a friend of ours, a member of otisfamily and a great supporter of my work, and she bought two bandannas from me last week. They’re the older ones, which do rock, just maybe not quite as hard as the new ones. Like, the old ones are Judas Priest and the new ones are Motörhead.
***What Connie Marble said when she found out that Channing the manservant had been wearing her brassieres. Unfortunately I couldn’t find a video clip on the internet with that scene in it, so you’ll just have to go watch this one instead.
Posted by jodi on October 29, 2011 at 8.00pm
midtown bazaar, this sunday!
October 28, 2011
This fun event is brought to you by The House, where I have my office-slash-studio. I’ll be there selling my hand bound books and block printed clothing. Please come and buy my stuff so I can take that cash directly across the parking lot and spend it all at the used record vendor’s table (this is the bane of all artists who sell at craft shows, amirite? There’s always something there that you want, just as soon as you make some scratch!). There’s also going to be pumpkin carving, live music, trick-or-treating, derby girls, awesomeness, poets, face painting and who knows what else. And an after party at Rino’s! My artwork is still up on the walls inside The House so if you missed the studio opening last week, here’s another chance to check it out.
As vendors are encouraged to come in costume, I’ve been waffling between 16th century Russian lady (my default, no-inspiration costume of choice), Ottoman empire dancer, or roller derby girl. Because those are the things that I have clothes for already. I was kind of leaning towards the knee socks, skates and war paint approach but it’s going to be a bit chilly, so Russian lady will probably win out. She’s got the most layers, as well as a big warm shuba (that’s a longass coat with extremely long sleeves and fur trim). Maybe I’ll find time on Saturday to make a spectacular kokoshnik to go with. Which will be exciting to nobody but me.
Here’s a sneak peek of what I’ll be selling: these are some fabric squares I’m printing for bandannas, drying in the window with their first layer of ink:
And some of my block printed skirts (photo by Sanja Frkovic for Our Windsor).
Links: the event on Windsorite.ca
Midtown Bazaar event on facebook
Posted by jodi on October 28, 2011 at 9.07am
what i did today
October 12, 2011
La Viande Rose:
Franklin Gothic:
Find them here! la viande rose
Posted by jodi on October 12, 2011 at 10.19pm
handmade paper match notes
October 5, 2011
New in my etsy shop, these tiny notebooks come in sets of 5 so you can keep one in every pocket. The covers are various handmade papers containing cotton linters, abaca, kapok, kudzu, denim rags, okra stalks and other good stuff. With these little books on hand your social encounters can be just like old times, before cellphones and smoking bans, when you’d scribble notes to yourself and new friends’ phone numbers inside the cover of a matchbook.
I’m working on getting more things in the store that are more subtle, in neutral colours and with simple finishes rather than my usual garish, sensory-overload style. Watch for a new line of miniature (but larger than these) notebooks with these same handmade paper soon, probably after the weekend.
Posted by jodi on October 5, 2011 at 11.21am
october schedule
October 3, 2011
Saturday, October 1: acting as a “book” in a Human Library presented by Windsor Public Library for Culture Days. Sorry, but you missed this one already; tomorrow I’ll show you the drawing I did in between sessions of being. . . read. The terminology of this event really is funny, but it was fun enough that I’d say yes to another one.
Wednesday, October 5 (yup, just two days from now): I’ll be appearing as a guest on CBC Radio Windsor’s afternoon programme The Bridge as part of a series they’re doing where they interview an artist at intervals throughout the show while during the rest of the show the artist works on a piece right there in the CBC studio. Listeners can email the programme for a chance to win the artwork at the end of the show. It’s been a pretty popular segment for them thus far; I think I’m their first printmaker. I’ll be getting a head start by bringing in a piece that’s already started with a couple of layers of woodblock printing that I will then spend the two hours drawing on top of. Horror vacui, folks. I’m scared a two hour drawing might still have some white space!
The Bridge airs from 4pm to 6pm Eastern. Not in Windsor? You can listen online, here: CBC (scroll to the “radio one” player and choose the Windsor Ontario stream). Please feel free to tune in and hear me possibly make an ass of myself on what thankfully is at least only regional radio. I haven’t quite decided whether it’s best to spend the next two days practicing not swearing, or whether to get all the swearing out of my system before then. Suspense!
Friday evenings, October 14, 21, 28 and November 4: I’ll be teaching another knitting workshop at a fun local shop, Saint Flamingo, this time on how to knit mittens. It’s a class for intermediate beginners: you should be able to do a knit stitch and possibly also a purl stitch, and have at least your first small project under your belt. But! You don’t need to know how to knit in the round or make a thumb gusset or anything more complicated than knit and purl. That’s what this class is for! We’ll have a project pattern for a simple worsted weight adult mitten, which the less-beginner, more intermediate-beginner students will be able to customize if they want more of a challenge.The sessions will run from 7pm to 9pm, and you can sign up by contacting Christine through the Saint Flamingo website.
Sunday, October 23: I’ll be having a studio warming slash art opening to welcome everyone to my fabulous new digs over at The House at 131 Elliott Street West. More details forthcoming on this once we nail down the specifics, but we’ll be starting at 4pm, going until who knows when, there will be live music and of course the bar at Rino’s Kitchen will be open for your beverage needs. In addition to having new artwork on display I’ll be debuting my fun new line of block printed clothing (skirts and bandannas, and I’m hoping to have some shirts ready by then too). If you’re in the area, I’d be honoured if you’d come by and say hello and check out my charming new studio/office, of which I’m quite enamoured.
Sunday, October 30: More fun times at The House! This time in the form of the Midtown Hallowe’en Bazaar, which will happen in the parking lot at the corner of Elliott and Pelissier, right next to The House. There will be artists, crafters, nonprofits (including the ever-awesome Border City Brawlers), local independently owned shops of all kinds (vintage gear! used records! so clearly if I make any money at this thing I won’t be taking any of it home). Everyone there will be handing out treats, so bring the kids all costumed and loot bag’d for a fun early start to the festival of sugary excess that’s to follow. The event runs from 2pm until 8pm, followed by a Hallowe’en party inside at Rino’s Kitchen. I hear there’s going to be pumpkin carving and prizes for the best costumes, too. I’m still trying to decide whether to be a pirate rollergirl, a medieval Russian peasant rollergirl, a 1970s rollergirl, an Ottoman Empire dancer rollergirl or some other kind of rollergirl for which I don’t already have an appropriate costume on hand. Or perhaps even (gasp) something other than a rollergirl? Nah.
Posted by jodi on October 3, 2011 at 4.51pm
