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02.01.12

Tree & Leaf Tony Thunder

One of the first pieces of local art I ever bought was by Tony Thunder, and is still one of my favorites. Tony has a very unique and raw cartoon style that comically satirizes politics, religion, and daily life with the use of cartoon humans, animals, and monsters. Watching Tony draw is a show within itself. Besides Hector Lopez, I've never met another artist that can create characters at such ease and speed. Tony can simply doodle out a bunch of characters in a matter of minutes that dwarf some of my best well thought out illustrations. Seriously, his art is awesome, his graphic design abilities are quickly on the rise, and his art is affordable.

I've been doing poster prints for a while now, but yesterday our poster and paper printing became legitimate. I built a two station printing table with the intention of increasing our print capabilities.

Tree & Leaf Poster Printing Press

This wasn't just on a whim, at the beginning of the year we decided that we would begin hosting a local artist to create a run of poster prints once a month. Tanner Frady has been booking a schedule for the upcoming year and we are excited to have our inaugural poster art show with Tony Thunder. Each print will be limited to no more than 50 prints. The shows will always fall on the last Friday of the month for consistency sake. We will also be hanging works and merchandise by each artist as well as the prints. The prints will be exclusively sold in our store.

Come hang out for our first show, it will be a great start to a cool monthly release. Support local art.

***** FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24TH - 7 to 10PM *****

01.31.12

tree and leaf drink and draw

 

First and foremost - I'm apologizing for John and I both because we haven't blogged in a month. We have been working hard and have a lot of cool stuff coming this spring. The nonblogging was totally worth the progression of the brand!

Anyway...

For the last two years, inconsistently I've had an unofficial Thursday Night Sketch Session. It's attended by a great group of my artist friends when we're all available. As nerdy as it may sound, we just sit around a draw. Everyone has their own style and subject matter. Sometimes we exchange sketchbooks, make stickers, occasionally someone works on school art projects or design work thumbnails. Whatever the case - we sit and draw and critique. In my humble opinion, it is one of the best methods for progessing artistically.

Since I've been busy and inconsistent with hosting the sessions at my house, I've decided that I'll make it more of a commitment in order to keep me accountable to drawing. Now EVERY THURSDAY from 8 to 11pm at the TREE & LEAF store, I'll leave the doors open for ANYONE to come draw.

(Even if you don't draw you are more than welcome to attend. If you have design questions or questions about the brand or running your own business or screenprinting, I'll be here to chat. We're not selling anything, we're just hanging out.)

I've got a couple big tables and a bunch of chairs, so bring your sketchbooks, and pencils, and snacks, and beer or whatever beverages you want to consume. It'll be rad...and dorky. I know initially this will be slow, I'm not expecting a massive art party. Either way, I'll be here drinkin a cold couple and drawing cartoons. Maybe we'll see ya.

 

12.29.11

Here's the newest DailyThunder shirt, brilliantly thought of by Royce himself. A super soft 50/50 white shirt, with bold print right on front. I'm printing them RIGHT NOW and putting them on shelves as they come off the press. Come get one for tonights game!

Thunder Never Stops

12.27.11

We are glad that we could be apart of your holiday celebrations! Thanks for tagging us in all your photos!

From @Adam_WK

From @SmashleyTerry

From our friend @ShopCrawlr

From @SamanthaC21

From @KatieWalk

@JeremieInfelise got some fancy new grips for Christmas and a lil T&L sticker!

Jennifer Poch posted a photo of a soon to be Thunder fan!

@HayTater had a very local Christmas!

From @Ellinenadspir

Brock Greenhill got a new 13EARD shirt!

From Ryan and Taylor

Thanks for all your photos! Hope you have very happy holidays! If you are wearing a T&L shirt, post pics!! We love seeing our customers out and about in our shirts! AND we just updated the marque in the shop, if you tag us in a post while you're in the store - you get 10% off your purchase...!

12.24.11

Thanks to Josh Moon for helping us with this video with less than a days notice. We may not be the best lipsyncers, but we filmed this within a 30 minute period during the work day, yesterday. Happy Holidays from the T&L crew!

Tree and Leaf Holiday Video from Josh Moon on Vimeo.