OMG My art is in the newspaper!
Mildly anyways.
Yesterday, I had the surreal honor of being featured in the Sunday San Francisco Chronicle newspaper! (Under the appropriately named “Hot Stuff” column in the Home & Garden section)
A freelance writer contacted me out of the blue a couple weeks ago and interviewed me for about 40 minutes. She was super nice and even wrote the article so I didn’t sound like a doofus. And that was awesome. Also, I’m forever indebted to her for including this quote of mine in the article: “I’m just kind of riding this meat train for a while.” My law professors would be so proud…
Check out the whole article here on sfgate.com.
In MORE good news, last week my little art self was nominated as one of the best local San Francisco Etsy shops, by 7×7 Magazine.
I’m pretty blown away that I was nominated at all, since I only had my first sale in February of this year! Plus there is some awesome competition.
The winner will be featured in November’s issue of 7×7 Magazine. So if you’re so inclined, you can check out the voting page and vote for Drywell. You can vote once a day until this Thursday, September 9th. And you could…. uh… tell your friends?
I have a feeling there are a lot of new eyeballs on ye ole blog, as Thrillist ran an awesometown write up of my little art shop, drywell…art by alyson, today.
So welcome to all the “sent-by-Thrillist” folks! Hope your eyeballs like it.
Also, I semi-stroked out this morning when I was just sitting, catching up on my bloglines and saw my little “friday socks” illustration on eastsidebride. Did a double-take, realized it was not in fact, my OWN blog that I was reading, and yelled to the hubby like a crazy-person. ESB and A Practical Wedding were my go-to blogs when planning my wedding last year, and in fact, are the only two I still l read now that the deed is done. So, uh, thanks. You made my Saturday.
Little blocky and the smoke cloud of doom is now available as a print in my shop.
I’m super pleased with the colors on this print. It took A LOT of time to match my original color choices in the original. It really matches the transparency and depth of the original watercolor, which I posted a few months ago.
In other news, The Bruery, a southern California beer brewery caught wind of one of my illustrations of their Melange No. Seches beer and featured it on their blog! I’m super excited (as you can see here) since they make some amazing creative beer. Be on the lookout for some more Bruery beer inspired art, over at my daily drawing project MEAT SECTIONS.
OK. Now I’m off to the beach to enjoy a rare warm sunny February day here in SF!
