a bite-sized blog about things i love. including awe-inspiring works of art, thrifty things around town, feats with my fetching family and more. thegoodshoppe.tumblr.com
Tex the T-Rex
February 8th, 2010 KevinTex is a T-rex that lives behind the Snake Farm in New Braunfels, Texas. Whatever you do don’t tell him he aint Texan. Only thing he loves more than Texas is his Texas pride.
Ok that’s all I’ve got at this hour. I drew this with a sharpie and my trustee brush pen.
Tex the T-Rex, originally uploaded by Kevin Munoz.
Sayer’s Commercial
January 29th, 2010 KevinSayer Danforth is an awesome dude. I was lucky enough to work with him a few years back. SUPER funny and creative guy. He just sent me this amazing commercial he shot for the wonderful Frosted Cupcakery.
FROSTED CUPCAKERY from SAYER DAN4TH on Vimeo.
Way to go Sayer!
Friday Art: The Chase
January 22nd, 2010 KevinMy pal Tony recently had a little baby girl. He commissioned me to make a painting for the little peanut’s room. I had a lot of fun making it.
I hope she grows up to wear top hats and mustache bow ties.
Tony is co-owner of print addiction, they throw art show/parties and print artists’ work on tees. There’s one going on as I type this. So if you are in the Austin area and want to get a The Amazing Hancock Bros t-shirt and possibly buy some of their art, you should go. You should probably leave now. Have fun kids.
Package from Kelly
January 16th, 2010 KevinI got a package from my good pal and fellow art/design nerd, Kelly Thacker. I met Kelly at Paul Frank years ago. She still works there and makes awesome stuff.
A couple weeks ago I was at Urban Outfitters and I came across a wallet Kelly had designed for the oh-so-cool Toddland (also an ex pf comrade). I was so excited to see her fun wallet that I took these pics in the store:
I’d mentioned to her I was in need of a laptop sleeve AND that I REALLY liked her wallet and she was nice enough to send me a huge package including both of those things and more!! I even got a note from one of my favorite people/artists ever, Parker Jacobs! You may not know this but most of my style is ripped off from… I mean, “influenced” by Parker.
There was also a sweet zine, put together by PF Art Director, Mike Smith, from an art show that Kelly was in that her co-worker Alex Funderburk curated. Here are a few of my favorite pages:
Mike Smith
Kelly Thacker
Alex Funderburk
Talented bunch eh? Thanks so much Kelly!! Way too kind of you.
NEW(S)
January 10th, 2010 KevinHappy new year everybody! There is some new stuff going on around here lately. First off, you may have noticed, we updated the theme here on our blog. It really is nothing fancy. It’s actually the default wordpress theme, called Kubrick, with a fun header I designed featuring our new logo, but I like it. Less is more, right? I’m also, excited that comments should now be working again. The last theme disabled comments for some reason and I was just never nerdy enough to figure out why. Somebody please comment on here so I know comments are working again.
Also new this year is our new store hosted by BigCartel. We’ll be updating our ol’ Etsy store with the same items for those of you that like to hang out over there. I’ll be posting different things in the stores real soon aside from tees, like drawings, zines, etc… eh, hopefully.
What I’m most excited about for this new year is my new art studio. It’s run by the fine folks at Okay Mountain. It’s right around the corner from home. I plan on being there daily, though this first week back from the long, laaaazy break was a little more demanding than I had hoped, stifling my chances to be studio bound daily. I did make it down there one evening to organize some materials, coat some panels, and draw these dudes.
sharpie and spray paint on yellow pages.
So far we’re off to a great start to a new year over here at casa Muñoz. Here’s a new year and lots of drawing, making, and loving.
Cheers.
the good shoppe update
December 31st, 2009 Giselleas most of you have noticed thegoodshoppe.etsy.com hasn’t been updated in a while. i will have new items in the shop for the month of january and all items will be available to purchase with FREE shipping for the entire month!
since the end of october, i have been a proud vendor at the new HOPE famers market on the eastside. for those of you who live in or around austin you can visit my booth every sunday at the HOPE famers market. i will have vintage clothing and foot ware for men, women, and kids along with home decor at fantabulous prices!
the HOPE farmers market is open every sunday from 11am-3pm. this is no ordinary market. empower yoga offers free classes at 11am and 1pm . bring your own mug and pay $1 for coffee provided by cafe mundi.
taken from the HOPE famers market website–
The Sunday HOPE Farmers Market is a weekly community gathering space where local farmers, artisans, community groups, families, and urban consumers can find fresh foods, community programs, artistic creations, agricultural education and wellness workshops. This unique weekly gathering space will be a platform to introduce local artists and Austin residents to surrounding area farms, healthy lifestyle companies, education in the arts and local community volunteer programs.
HOPE Farmers Market is Located on the corner of E. 5th & Waller Street in the downtown area, the unique Pine Street Station is a convenient
and comfortable Sunday gathering space for artists & residents to connect with friends, fresh foods & local merchants and learn more about community programs Austin has to offer.
please check hopecampaign.org to see more amazingness from HOPE .
NEW online store coming soon
December 31st, 2009 Gisellehi everyone! in the coming days we will have a new online store set up here with new tshirts for your buying and wearing pleasure. please check back with us soon. and i mean soon!
Friday Art: El Hippie Guapo (2 shows this weekend)
December 4th, 2009 KevinI will be showing some art in 2 venues this weekend. Tonight from 6 to 10pm is the opening of Mexic-Arte Museum’s Mix N Mash show which I made a super new and fun piece for. Tickets are $25 and my buddies James Huizar, Randy Muniz, and Tony Diaz will also have pieces in this show. Nothing but 12×12 inch panels here. For a full list of the artists and all the details click here.
Here is the piece I made for the Mix N Mash show. Click here to view the process shots.
Tomorrow the Maranda Pleasant Gallery will be holding their annual 12×12 box show with every piece priced at $100 . Some of the proceeds will go to Explore Austin. There is no cover for this exhibit and you can even go before the madness from 10am to 6pm to do some early purchasing. The party is from 6pm to 10pm. A few friends will be showing work here as well including: Jeremy Burks, Will Bryant, and Zach McDonald. Apparently 25 pieces have already sold! So go, go, GOOOO!
Stay warm this weekend err’body.
FRIDAY ART: HOPE Farmers Market Poster
November 13th, 2009 KevinHave you heard of HOPE? They’re awesome. They help other people EVERYWHERE! We (mostly Giselle because she’s AWESOME) have been tabling the new HOPE farmers market here in East Austin recently. It’s pretty awesome. Andi, who runs HOPE, asked me to be the very first artist to make a poster for their poster series. I agreed and started sketching ideas right away.
I liked a few of the ideas but I LOVED good ol’ Mon holding a flower, so I chose to develop that one further. This is the drawing I did on vellum.
I scanned that in and colored it up and the rest is my story.
Come by the farmers market this sunday from 11am to 3pm to say hello and maybe get a poster.
