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It was so good that it made me post a blog. Check it out!

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Also, a tip for artists who travel... if you need a good travel palette, an empty CD case does the trick. Just pull out the plastic guts and cover the front in stickers so that the inside is white (so you can see colors easily.) It worked for me when I lost my usual travel kit in the middle of the trip.











































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Nothing exciting happens in my mailbox anymore. I check it maybe once every two weeks, and usually I find nothing worth taking into the house. I pick up the stack, look through it for traces of something human, and when I find none it goes back in the box. I wish the mailman would just take it away, so it would never have to pass before my eyes again. Of course that never happens, and I'm left with this insatiable desire for REAL MAIL. Specifically illustrated letters.

So what's the point behind this rant? It's simple. I suspect that each one of you would also LOVE to get illustrated letters in the mail, and perhaps we could work out some sort of deal.

Send me an illustrated letter, and I will send you one back! Tell me about your hometown, or your dog, or a vacation you took, ANYTHING, as long as it's accompanied by some sort of illustration or design. It doesn't matter whether you think of yourself as an artist or not. Everything done by a human hand is infinitely more beautiful than 10 point times new roman accompanied with an oh so boring corporate logo and a jpeg of someone's handwritten name. Feel free to draw, paint, attach, collage, or whatever!

EVERYONE will receive an illustrated letter from me, and the person who sends me the coolest illustrated letter will also receive a book entitled "More than Words: Illustrated Letters from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art". It's a pretty great book.

Just email me at cbuchholz@jplprod.com and I'll email you back with my mailing address. You guys could also use this blog as a way to set up letter swaps with other threadless users!

Finally, I want to thank Danny Gregory and Jim Mitchell for inspiring me to do this.

Here's some inspiration from the book:

In a letter to his daughter, painter and illustrator Allen Tupper True embellished his hotel stationery to express his awe of New York city's skyscrapers. He included himself as a speck on the street.


Visionary artist and Baptist preacher Reverend Howard Finster wrote to curator Barbara Shissler about a trip to Washington, D.C., for the opening of an exhibition Shissler had organized at what is now the Smtihsonian American Art Museum.


Paul Bransom portrayed himself fixated on a photograph of his sweetheart. A year later, Bransom married Grace and sold five covers to "The Saturday Evening Post," launching his career as a freelance illustrator.


This is one in a series of letters from painter and watercolorist Waldo Peirce to a Women's Auxiliary Army Corps captain stationed in Louisiana during World War II. Peirce, who married four times, divided his affections among three women, each shown happily eating a piece of his heart.


In this letter to his parents, painter William Cushing Loring describes his neighborhood in Paris and the 72-hour Bastille Day celebration that was taking place there in July 1901.


The spectacular view that unfolds is from Rutherford Boyd's New York studio on the top floor on East 23rd Street, an area populated with artists at the time. Exacting illustrations such as this earned Boyd a strong reputation.


Moses Soyer sent what he called a "puzzle picture" to his son, who was away at summer camp. In a watercolor vignette, he pictures the family dog and cat and baseball great Dizzy Dean. The baseball glove was shown flying from his home in New York to his son's bunk at Camp Quannacut.


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Below is the sketchbook. this one is hand-bound on 140lb hot press fabriano artistico paper, which I tinted so it's off-white.

this sketchbook is kind of different from others of mine, since I really just kind of used it as a place to experiment and just have fun with.

sorry for the bad quality of some of the pics. if you're curious about what anything says, I can translate.

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I know I haven't been doing any T-shirts lately, but I have been busy! My aunt gave me this old record book which was written in by my great great grandma. It has entries in it dated 1876! It mostly contains names of people who are "dropped" or "deceased". I decided to deface it with drawings from my trip to Italy that I took last year.

I was really kicking myself for not drawing when I was actually there, but this is the next best thing. Actually, drawing from photos does have some advantages, but it's not even close to the real thing.

Saturday I'm leaving for Europe again, and this time, I'm drawing while I'm there!

Here are the sketches...


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I'm working on painting a mural at my work! The room is a memorial dedicated to a workmate who passed away due to cancer a couple of years ago. He was a really great guy and this mural is kind of a collage of things he enjoyed as well as characters and stories from his life.


















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It was great meeting everyone in person! I miss you guys already and can't wait till we are able to meet again. I've never drawn so much in my life, and I've learned so much from watching all of you! Now I've got to get back to inking in everyone else's sketches so I can submit them as my designs ;)

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Here's a link to the new Sunset Rubdown Album... so... you can listen to it and decide if you want to buy it when it comes out, and then IMMEDIATELY delete this pirated version ;)

BTW, it's amazing.]]>