It’s time again for the “summer” Renegade Craft Fair in San Francisco! Bundle up and come on out to Fort Mason. I’m in booth 137, right down the center aisle.
It should be a great time, and you can see some new Drywell Art for the first time in person. Consider this a sneak preview:
The weather has taken a turn for the sunny, and dare I say, warm? I was actually able to sit outside at Public House with my father on his short visit to SF yesterday, and *may* have even said it was hot at one point. And the sun went down behind the buildings and it was all over.
But, it is supposed to be quite lovely this weekend, which means it will be a great time to hang outside and stop in Renegade Craft Fair at Fort Mason. There are over 200 vendors, including your’s truly. Drywell Art will be front and center, quite literally. We’ll be set up next to my pal Kai, at Nosh This, who will be slinging Bacon Crack (TM) after a long hiatus.
Jam-maker extraordinaire, Lemon Bird and culinary soap-master Etta+Billie will be sharing a booth nearby, and my pal Sharon Z. will be there too with her eponymous jewelry line. Some other faves are SF tees for kids by my friend, the newly engaged Jamai of Animal Instincts, and the always amazing art of Ryan Berekley. (I just saw a show of his while I was in POrtland … really hoping he’s made some prints of those pieces!)
And Drywell Art will have some new goods on display, including a slew of framed original watercolors and at least two new cocktail diagram prints, the Sidecar and Sazerac.
Stop in, eat some chocolate and say hello.
Booyah! Final Sidecar cocktail diagram
Fully back in the swing of things here at Drywell HQ. Not only is Renegade Craft Fair coming up next weekend at Fort Mason, but I’ve also been busy creating new pieces for Project Make.
pencil sketch of sidecar
Project Make is a pretty fun project headed up by fellow artist Meghan Urback. Basically, for the next month, a group of local artists will be documenting their process for creating art. The process photos are posted on Instagram with the tag #projectmake as well as on each artist’s page on the Project Make website. Here’s mine. After the pieces are finished, the originals will be available for purchase on the site.
Where the magic happens. With the watercolor.
Photoshop mock up from fellow watercolorist Emily Proud
Woodcuts from Sirima Sataman
It has been pretty interesting so far to see everyone’s processes, especially those working in different media, such as wood block printing. My process can be at times …. a bit unorthodox.
Inspiration comes in many (delicious) forms.
…but tasty. I’ll post when the final paintings are available for purchase.
Last chance, San Francisco. This weekend I will be manning my meat art table with my trusty partner Steve, and over 250 other amazing vendors. Seriously, one-stop shopping for the holidays. We’re front and center (well, slightly left of center). I’ll have all my remaining original meat art from the Beer, Bourbon, and BBQ show. Hope to see you there!
Tomorrow, will you be stuck in your office all day, with only a lunch break? Or maybe you’re playing hooky and shopping in Union Square?
Either way, you should stop by the La Cocina Gift Bazaar. This is the 4th year for the food incubator’s holiday gift show, and the first time it is taking place at Crocker Galleria, conveniently located at the Montgomery BART/MUNI stop. It was a great show last year, and if you have any food-lovers on your Christmas or Hannukah list, this is your one stop shop. Say hi!
Steve and I will be vending our hearts out this weekend at Bazaar Bizarre San Francisco. Come by and say hello. An exciting addition this year is the food pavillion, organized by Forage SF. Should be some tasty, locally made food-type things there. Uh, yeah. Oh, and my mom will be there. She’ll be the one hiding behind our art.
Saturday and Sunday, December 1 + 2
11AM – 6PM
Concourse Exhibition Center, SF
FREE
It’s that time again, folks! The annual summer Renegade Craft show in San Francisco is this weekend!
I’ll be there. Steve will be there. Meaty art will be there. Meaty chocolate will be there (from Nosh This, in the booth right next to us!)
Come on down, it should be great as usual. 🙂
A couple weeks ago, I ventured outside of the 415 with my meaty art in tow (oh, plus Steve and some egg mcmuffins) to participate in the Renegade Craft Fair in Los Angeles. It was my first show outside of San Francisco, and despite a lower turnout than anticipated (thanks a lot, Carmageddon) I’m definitely counting the show as a success. Why?
1. An outdoors show that was actually WARM!
True, sometimes I’ll get a rare warm Sunday show with Indiemart, but for the most part in SF, it is inside shows or crazy windy outdoors ones. LA was lovely, tented, and a full 30 degrees warmer than SF at the same time.
2. Confirming that LA folks love meat too.
There were a couple of people who didn’t quite seem to “get” the strong rallying cry of “Los Angeles is for Meat Eaters” but overall, I got meet a ton of excited food and meat lovers, including numerous chefs, and friends of chefs.
3. We got and used a dolly.
No idea why it took us over a year of doing craft shows to spend a mere $28 to get the most amazing, back and marriage saving device ever. Thanks to Margaret of Paper Pastries for the insanely key tip.
4. Visiting The Bruery and Beachwood BBQ
Heading south also meant the chance to see my custom artwork I made for Beachwood BBQ in Long Beach (I might have had some amazing ribs and Telegraph Reserve Wheat on tap while I was there too). The place was fantastic, and finally getting to meet Lena and Gabe, the owners was such a treat. I’ve been delighted to discover that so many of these awesome business I love are co-owned by husband and wife teams.
Seeing the custom art in person was such a crazy trip and so exciting. As you can see.
We also managed to sneak in a private tour of The Bruery in Placentia, courtesy of the crazy nice and generous Ben, PR dude extraordinaire. I’ll have a separate post about that.
6. Palm Springs, baby.
Oh, and a quick jaunt to Palm Springs after the show didn’t hurt a damn thing. More on that later….
Why yes.
If you didn’t get a chance to say hi or snag some meat art of your own at Renegade SF a couple weeks ago, tomorrow is your chance. I’ll be selling my artwork, as featured on The Atlantic (I tried to mention that super casually. Did it work?) and hanging out with my partner in crime, Steve. Much of my new work is not available online yet, but it will be available tomorrow at Indie Mart. Come on by and say hello. I’m friendly.
Hello hello! We just finished up a loooong weekend at Renegade Craft Show in San Francisco and it went so well! (Our home, however, is much worse for the wear.) Thanks so much to everyone who came by and bought some slamming art, whether for their kitchen, to use as a study aid in culinary school (yeah!), or as a gift for another meat lover in their life. Steve and I really felt the meat love.
It was also so great to see friends (some bearing cans of champagne!!!), chat with fellow artists and vendors, catch up with old co-workers, and meet internet/twitter pals in real life. My favorite exchange of the day was with a kind woman who asked if I was from SF, and then proceeded to ask which school I attended. I told her that while I lived here now, I didn’t go to school here. And so she asked which art school I went to. Much laughter as I told her that I went to law school, not art school.*
This was my first time doing a summer Renegade show, and it did go really well. Since it was my first show since the holidays, the ole booth set up needed an upgrade. My hubby, a newly accomplished carpenter (complete with beard pencil holder) designed and constructed some great display cases. They were a classy upgrade from our old kraft paper-covered foamcore cases we had over the holidays.
Man, is there anything that beard CAN’T do?It was also my first craft show since the holidays, and after the MEAT MARKET art show in May, I had a bunch of new work to display.
Our new “Use Every Part” Pig poster was very popular. Which is great, because I love it.Figuring out which pieces to keep from previous shows, as well as how to best display my original works, and all the new prints was challenging. In fact, on day 2 we completely changed our display, which I think worked even better.
Set up on day one. Nice display shelves, right? Also, we only have 2 of the original tiny cheeky meat watercolors (lower shelf, left side) remaining!
Oh, and I bought myself a little treat! A bamboo watch from Mistura.
Now, to buckle down and create a meat poster for LA, where I’ll be at Renegade, in oh, 4 days!
*She then followed up with the inevitable question of “what do you parents think about all of this,” but, uh, we don’t need to discuss that, right?
