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Archived Tee - 2011-04-01
Art curated by
Silent Night
About the artist
jewelwing
A word from TeeFury:
We've already asked Jewelwing all kinds of things, so this time her Facebook fans provided the questions!
How'd you get interested in art, and t-shirts specifically?
We've already asked Jewelwing all kinds of things, so this time her Facebook fans provided the questions!
How'd you get interested in art, and t-shirts specifically?
I've always been interested in art and I've always loved to draw. I got into t-shirts when Attack of the Show mentioned something about Woot. I'd seen Threadless before, but never thought it was something I could really be involved in. Woot's derby, on the other hand, seemed manageable. So I started with that and it went from there.
How does your approach to design change depending on your medium?
I try to make the most of the shape of what I'm working with. Gotta fill the space, hopefully in an interesting way. And for shirts I double check that none of the drawing is falling somewhere that might look, um...inappropriate.
Is there a common theme for your designs, and if so, what is it?
If it's anything, it's about just being. There's not a lot of strong emotion in my drawings. The subjects (well animals, because it's always animals) have expression, but it's not anything as strong as love or hate. It's more mysterious. They're there, stuff's happening, they're dealing and it's mostly all good. But what they're really thinking is hidden a little, so you can figure it out for yourself.
Most of your designs seem to feature animals-how did that get started? Did you grow up surrounded by them?
I grew up with 2 cats, so no, not really. I'm just generally not interested in drawing something unless it has a face. And a furry face is the best face. Plus a lot of the expressions I'm going for look boring or sad on people, but on animals I think they're more interesting. And animals are really cute.
What is the meaning of life?
Do you really think I'm telling? No way.
Do you have a spirit animal? And, if so, what do you feed it?
It's so annoying. It only eats organic gluten-free stuff from Whole Foods. Spoiled thing.
What is your LEAST favorite aquatic creature?
JELLYFISH. It's not even my "least favorite," I HATE them. Supposedly they don't have brains, but I still believe they're out there in the ocean, rubbing their nasty tentacles together and plotting horrible, evil things. If anything bad ever happens to you, feel free to blame the jellyfish because in some way it's probably their fault. During certain parts of the year the dead man o' wars wash up on the beach here and that's always a happy time for me. DIE JELLIES. DIE.
For our final example, please phrase your question in the form of a compliment.
How is it you can make Pink and Blue ROCK instead of feeling like an '80s living room?
One of my favorite color combos. As well as aqua and peach. And electric purple and tangerine. Those are all on the 80's side but I love them. I was a little kid in the 80s, maybe my tiny brain got warped towards them.
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Totally reminds me of this. Must have!
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