Sweet Thing

Today is my sweet husband's 39th birthday.  When we visited the SFMOMA last week we both gushed over a Wayne Thiebaud cityscape.  Best known for his dreamy pictures of food, in milky pinks and yellows, I wanted to share some of his work today.  Still a practicing artist at the age of 92, Thiebaud is a contemporary of some of my favorite artists including Jasper Johns and Richard Diebenkorn. He was also a long time professor at UC Davis, our alma mater, which makes him extra special to us.  

Three Machines, 1963

Cheese Slices, 1986

Four Cupcakes, 1971

Sunset Streets, 1985

Tribal Art

Beauchamping's "Tribe" just makes me smile.  It would make for a nice kitchen wall reminder when an entire bowl of cereal gets dumped on the floor. Find it on Etsy.

Nose To Tail

Just in case you were wondering, this is my brand of humor.  So, I am super duper bummed that I can't go to the West Elm/Etsy event curated by SFGirlByBay this Saturday in Emeryville. I love West Elm and want to sleep there at night.  More importantly, Etsy is eventually going to figure in to my "empire" strategy and I want to become better acquainted with successful local Etsy artists. I also really wanted to meet Victoria, the prolific local blogger putting this group of designers together. Whatcha gonna do? In honor of the collective, I am featuring one of the local artists as my Etsy find of the week.  This print is by Drywell. The artist behind the pig is Alyson Thomas, whose bio says she is an attorney turned artist with no formal training and a love of meat.  She's my kind of gal.