BRA Day USA, Part 1...

Breast Reconstruction Awareness (BRA) Day

I was asked a few weeks back to participate in a project for BRA Day USA. painting a mannequin torso!

the charity event will take place this Wednesday night (10/17) at the Mattress Factory Art Museum from 6:00 - 9:00.

500 Sampsonia Way,

Pittsburgh 15212

from the invite:

"Breast reconstruction following mastectomy

can close the loop on breast cancer for many.

Join the UPMC Department of Plastic

Surgery for Pittsburgh’s inaugural Breast

Reconstruction Awareness (BRA) Day event.

Enjoy an evening of cocktails, hors d’oeuvres,

and fabulous art. Bid on mannequin busts

creatively designed by some of Pittsburgh’s

favorite artists.

Tickets are $50 each. Proceeds will

be used to raise awareness and promote

education for breast reconstruction."

here are some pics from the first few nights of work...

"she" arrives:

mapping out a path for a ribbon:

measuring for a consistent width:

trace/freehand:

tracing (rather sloppy flowers):

trying to color within the lines:

next... we fill in the blanks and clean her up for the party! stay tuned!

houndogg designs: informal introduction and quickie DIY

informal introduction, i have a freelance design company that goes by the name:

houndogg designs

(i also have a main page currently being updated over at houndogg.com. will be up and running in November)

my wordmark:

my primary logo:

i even fly my own flag:

future DIY flag, by the way...

so i decided to create a quick DIY shoulder patch. normal steps: scaled to size, cut templates, traced, cut. ready for glue and sewing:

project840 will not be going away. this blog will still be my DIY dump off

lots of great/fun stuff to come from houndogg designs!

thank you all for the support thus far,

-RyCo

Top Secret: Day 6

thanks to my lovely assistant Bill, here is the progress:



won't be long now...

however, thinking of making some on the go modifications, and adding more yellow/gold than originally planned!

Dabbling in Sign Painting 4...

switching gears from painting a wall logo, back to painting this sign:

really excited to try out this font from House Industries! it's a House Slant that was offered up last month. finally got around to tracing it out:

turning out pretty good so far. still a lot of space to create some graphics... stay tuned!

Top Secret: Day 5/Trip 3

secret is OUT Pittsburgh, here is where i've been hiding:

see my truck?

made another trip out, and put these stencils to work:

whew! everything seems centered...

end of Day 5:

1.5 hours of work

DIY Field Notes Edition...

if you know me, you know i LOVE me some Field Notes!

so let me show you my Field Notes treatment, and a quickie DIY:

first off, you remember this hockey puck failure:

well, i also failed at a Houndogg Designs hockey puck, but never snapped pics. all this time, i kept the little tape cutouts of my "H" logo, because they ended up looking so sharp. i place a cutout under the first page, and just work a quick pencil rubbing over top of it.

check it out:

nothing like personalizing yer Field Notes!

hope that gives you an idea or two, and hope you all have a great weekend!

Top Secret: Day 4

preparing for some sharp letters!

end of Day 4:

2 hours of work

Top Secret: Day 3/Trip 2

the second trip out to these projects is always a fun one. pretty much everything is sketched out on the wall by the end, and it just gets you that much more excited.

about ready to lay on some paint:

end of Day 3/Trip 2:

1.5 hours of work

Top Secret: Day 2/Homework

i'm just as proud to work on this project as the people are that will see the project. so i want the letters to be as sharp as possible!

making stencils at home:

Day 2. 1 hour of work

Top Secret: Day 1/Trip 1

with my latest project comes security clearance!

i'm at an undisclosed location, doing an undisclosed project, for undisclosed people... but... if you're familiar Pittsburgh, you know exactly where i am. also, it's not top secret at all... just sounds cool to me!

i won't be giving away what i'm doing, but stay tuned and enjoy the pics:

getting the $.05 tour:

flight simulator. toppin' off a C-5 Galaxy:

pro move, totally forgot to print out sheets 10, 11 & 12. know exactly where i'm wrapping this project up on this trip in particular

end of Day 1/Trip 1. 2 hours of work.

stay tuned for more!

REALLY cool find this weekend. Heinz History Center...

was at a wedding reception at the Heinz History Center with best buds this weekend when I stumbled upon this:

cool logo indeed, in fact one of the better vintage i've seen in quite a while... but the little story that accompanied it really hit home:

totally inspirational!!!

some other cool pics from the little area of the museum open to us. NEED to get back there and dig through all the exhibits again. enjoy:

need to get back there and dig...

Dabbling in Sign Painting 3...

progress!

look good so far:



 

 

ehhh... maybe half way finished? not sure, but stay tuned!

Dabbling in Sign Painting 2...

this is the style of letters i'd like to try to resize & recreate with a paint brush:

 

here are the rest of the colors i'm going to use:

Flag DIY, DDC style...

i've recently became a huge fan of Aaron James Draplin and the Draplin Design Co. Also, i had this really cool looking Sea Foam flag that needed a project. Had some extra  Gold material form my Invaders projects. So i thought i'd add them all together and try something new... a DIY flag!

i took the main DDC logo from the "Freight Train Torso Cover"

copy, pasted, traced, scaled, and printed in AutoCAD, as i do almost always:

 

 cut out some temporary templates good for about 2-3 good traces:

 

sewed:

look how much thread i had left... couldn't sew another straight-away! SO close:

finished:

 

check out the scale... do those colors look sharp, or what?!?!

Aaron & the DDC gang, hope you enjoy the flag!

to all of you reading this post, find an hour to watch this video of Aaron and his 50 Point Plan! might just change the way you approach a few things in life:

Portland/CreativeMornings - Aaron James Draplin from CreativeMornings/Portland on Vimeo.