art by mags!

Tag: tshirts

  • bear with me…

    as you can see, i’m making some changes to my website. i’m trying out a new wordpress theme, one that will hopefully work better with the e-commerce plugin woo commerce so i can have a built-in shop on this site. (my old theme really didn’t like woo commerce!)

    i want to be able to offer my paintings, prints, handscreened shirts, stickers and anything else i come up with here on this site and be in complete control of it. (i quit etsy a while back and haven’t had a dedicated location for my wares since.)

    so as i explore this new theme and tweak the design as i have time, things might change visually from visit to visit until i get it worked out. hopefully the site will be easier to see/read and be cleaner, simpler, and easier to navigate.

  • my bonfire t-shirt shop

    i have a lot of things to catch up on but the first one that i’ll quickly address is that i’ve been updating my bonfire t-shirt shop.

    those who’ve followed me for a while know i’ve used all manner of print-on-demand stores over the years for my graphic designs, most recently teespring (which is now just called spring). i do still have a few old designs up on teespring but they had a major technical overhaul a few years back and archived a lot of my designs and told me i’d have to start all over basically, relisting them… so i instead chose to go elsewhere. if i was gonna have to put all the effort into relisting everything, it was going to be on a different site that was less buggy and more aesthetically pleasing to look at. hence, bonfire. there are probably better print-on-demand sites than bonfire but i’ve bought several shirts from other artists via bonfire and always been happy with the quality, plus i really like their visual interface, so for now i’m happy to be there.

    anyways, so given the moment we are in right now in this country, i thought it would be good to have a way to offer several of my popular protest/resistance wear designs. i know a lot of you already have these but some of you have mentioned you’ve worn yours out and many folks are new to me and my designs so maybe they will find new audiences. at this point i’ve got the classic resist, the evergreen the people united will never be defeated, and still my personal favorite, keep loving keep fighting. i have a few more to go from the vaults and then i’d really like to get some new designs together. but i need to make some money first so i can afford to re-up my subscriptions to photoshop and illustrator, which i use to make my designs. right now i really can’t afford the subscriptions. so hopefully getting these designs up will generate some funds towards that goal.

    also, i’ve just tonight launched my buy art! design, which has never been available before for purchase as a shirt. i made stickers of this design a while back and went so far as to get a few samples of the shirt made, to make sure it looked ok, but then never launched a shirt campaign. so i’m correcting that now! it’s a simple block letter design that’s bold and attention-getting. my samples were printed on black shirts and i think it looks best that way but i know folks have lots of opinions about having too many black shirts so there are other dark color options with the white lettering available. let the artists in your life know about it or better yet, gift them one!

    more designs are on the way, and i have more updates coming for the blog. but that’s it for tonight. hope everyone’s doing as well as you can given this country’s rapid descent into authoritarianism. hang in there, and keep resisting.

  • how’d it get to be november already?

    sigh. the last time i wrote here it was the end of september, i was in the 2nd week of the find your joy course and loving it, and i was looking forward to my vacation to new mexico mid october.

    well it’s a month and a half later now. the find your joy class is finishing up week 8 (of 12) though i’ve only just today managed to finish week 5. (week 7 was an integration week for folks to catch up so i’m 2 lessons behind at this point.) and i took my vacation, which was glorious and if you follow me on my personal instagram or my personal facebook, you’ve seen all my photos… i had so much fun with my dear friend dix and was gobsmacked by the beauty of the region.

    but… i returned already fighting off some kinda crud (allergies? altitude? airplanes and airports?) and then had a very intense week of work and an ill-advised if fun weekend of social activity which sped up my illness and landed me really REALLY sick for the past two weeks with severe bronchitis. like sicker than i can remember being as an adult outside of hospital stays. two urgent care visits and two courses of antibiotics later (well i’m still in the middle of the second course), and i am starting to feel better. but i worked sicker than i should have for several days – it was miserable. i am grateful to feel like i’m coming out the other side now but also overwhelmed by how much money it cost me to be sick (urgent care visits, prescriptions, over the counter drugs, ordering out cuz i was too sick to cook, canceled walks, turned down petsits, and several weeks of missed time in the studio) and how far behind i feel.

    thankfully i don’t have any work this weekend so i trying to get caught up while also resting. i finally did some vacuuming today and i hope to do laundry tomorrow. i did lesson 5 in FYJ today and posted my results on my art IG and played around with some other stuff in the studio, generally relaxing and not exerting myself too much. tomorrow i hope to tackle lesson 6 and maybe do the dishes. baby steps.

    so i don’t have a lot to share here about art cuz i haven’t done a lot in the past month and a half. however… i am considering joining in on a midcity art studio stroll that’s being planned for saturday december 9th from 12-6pm, so i guess that’s what i can talk about. i haven’t done any art markets or pop-ups in years and years and i actually think the last time i did one was also at my house during the holidays. the last time i did it, i was still living just in the back of the house, so i really had no choice but to do it in the backyard; i had folks come down the alley along the side of the house to enter. if i end up doing it this time, i do have a front porch now and a living room and office that i could use to display stuff, but it would require me to really clean up before then to allow folks into my house. so i might just do it like last time, around back, since the studio opens up to the backyard. we’ll see. i have some pet work scheduled that day so i have to figure out if i really think i can do both.

    if i do decide to do it, i will have a mix of old leftovers from the crafty and t-shirt printing days plus newer paintings from the past few years of dabbling in abstract work.

    i’ll keep you posted if i do end up doing it.

    that’s all i got. til next time! and happy thanksgiving!

  • summer update.

    yes i know, it’s been a lot of months since i’ve updated here. i will skip over the boring parts but, hey, it’s summer! it’s pride weekend! i’ve made a bunch of stickers since i posted last! (i did a bunch of other stuff too but you probably already know about all that if you follow me on facebook, twitter or instagram or ever look at my etsy shop or teespring store.)

    but here’s what’s coming in the mail soon. i tried to get them made in time for pride weekend here in new orleans, which is this weekend, but apparently i was one day off, as i got the shipping notification today that it’s coming monday. oh well. our pride is early in the month, though, and lots of other cities have pride at the end of the month so i’m hoping there are still folks who will want these in the next few weeks.

    the rectangular one on top is 4″ x 3″ and the square one is 3″ x 3″. they will go up in my etsy shop as soon as i have them and be $2 each with free postage. or feel free to message me and we can figure it out with paypal or venmo directly.

    i’ll let you catch yourself up on everything else by visiting the above social media links. and i’ll try to get better about posting updates here. happy pride everyone!

  • the holiday whirlwind…

    one of my small abstract paintings that i feel sums up the chaos of this time of year

    yep, here we go. thanksgiving is now behind us, black friday is still happening all the way through small business saturday and cyber monday, and the endless holiday art and craft markets and parties are upon us. it’s the holiday whirlwind. before you know it, it will be new year’s.

    i haven’t much participated in recent years in the holiday marketing of my wares. but as i look around this year, i’m realizing i have a LOT of stuff accumulating in my house and shed, and it would be nice to get rid of some stuff. and hey, maybe some of you might like some of it?

    so. for the first time in a really long time – seriously, years – i’m doing a couple of holiday markets. as some of you know, i’m taking a vacation this next week out to chico, california. (yes, 10 minutes away from paradise, the town that burnt to ground by the camp fire recently.) and it just so happens that one of my friends i’m visiting is a maker of things, an upcycler of all kinds of cool stuff. and she signed both herself and me up for a holiday market next saturday out there. artist christine mac shane has a studio and apparently does a holiday market with other artists every year, so thanks to southwest airlines’ generous baggage allowance, i will be carting a suitcase of my stuff out there to sell. mostly tshirts and stickers, but i’m scheming to see what else i might be able to fit. here’s the link to the facebook invite for the event, in case you know someone in chico or who lives in northern cali and wants to take a little roadtrip to see me.

    then a week and a half after i come back, i’ll be doing my only new orleans holiday market at treo on dec. 15th. here are all the details and a list of the vendors. i’m excited and will probably be lugging a bin of my bargain t’s and other printed things (assuming there is space). maybe some prints. maybe some paintings. (again, it’s about space.) but it’s always fun doing markets in bars where folks can drink and eat and hang out while they shop.

    and then we’ll see how i’m feeling, how much stuff i have left, and what my pet biz schedule is like. if all the stars align perhaps i’ll do another back yard sale last minute before xmas. or maybe not. we’ll see.

    in the mean time, i do still have stuff up in my etsy shop and am adding designs all the time to my teespring store. (but get those orders in early on teespring, by december 11th if you want it for christmas.)

    and as always, message me directly if you have any questions or if you want to swing by the house to pick something up.

    happy holidays, everyone. don’t forget to slow down and enjoy it!

  • EDUCATE AGITATE ORGANIZE tshirts are ready!

    educate agitate organize black ink on red tshirts

    these EDUCATE AGITATE ORGANIZE tshirts are finally ready!

    limited run. canvas red color. bella/canvas brand. short sleeve unisex crew. 100% ringspun cotton jersey. sizes S – 2XL available right now.

    $20 per shirt + $4 1st class domestic shipping for 1 shirt. ($5 for 2-3 shirts. 4+ shirts $7.)

    if you are local to new orleans and want to pick up, no shipping charge, obviously.

    if you need international shipping email me at: artbymags@gmail.com so we can figure out the cost.

    send payment via paypal to: mags@artbymags.com (friends/family payment if you know how to do that)

    send payment via venmo to: mags504

    please make sure to email me your shipping address and sizes when you order!

    i’m also taking pre-orders on:

    -unisex canvas red sizes 3XL – 4XL. (3XL = $20, 4XL = $23)

    -GREY unisex shirts. sizes S – 4XL (4XL = $23, others $20)

    -and WOMEN’S bella/canvas relaxed fit tshirts in both RED and GREY, sizes S – 2XL (these are the only sizes available). $20 each.

    thanks everyone for the support!