My friend Jodi Bart (who I get a ton of new restaurant recommendations from) asked me if I’d draw a food trailer for her upcoming Tasty Up Trailer Tour, so I doodled this. If you don’t live in Austin or you’ve never been there: yeah, there’s a lot of good food to be eaten out of trailers.
Many people have expressed interest in originals, and so far, I’ve been really hesitant to give in: after all, newsprint deteriorates, and permanent marker, believe it or not, is not permanent. A print will far outlast the original. I’m not sure how one would preserve newsprint like this—a couple of museum folks are coming by this week, so maybe I’ll ask them. Who knows? It might even be interesting to watch the original slowly disintegrate on your wall.
I’m keeping the broadsheets intact now, just in case. They look like this:
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I’ve been doing “bite-size” blackouts to warm up…
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A New Year’s resolution: post more sketchbook pages up on this blog. These are some pages from over the holidays. (Taken with my iPhone camera.)
Very pleased to announce that the gang at 20×200 are offering a new, affordable Newspaper Blackout print for sale!
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This is one of my very favorites. It looks really good BIG, so if you can scrape up the dough, I’d encourage you to buy one of the bigger sizes.
Detail:
I think it’d also make a perfect graduation present, if you have a young-un in your life…for that first apartment, etc.
Read what Sara @ 20×200 has to say about the print
Never bought from 20×200 before? Here’s an idea of what you’ll get when your print arrives.
And of course, if you don’t already own them, there are two other Newspaper Blackout prints still on sale at 20×200:
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