Cute Animals Fighting Each Other
In 2008, I started a craft group that would meet monthly and pick a material that we had never worked with and teach ourselves how to use it. One craft night we picked resin and I fell in love. We made scrabble tile necklaces with magazines. It was fun, but I hated sticking to such a defined size and using other people's artwork....so with some experimentation I figured out how to work with clay, resin, and my own hand drawn images to create pendants.
Shortly after I started selling at local craft shows. At one show I overheard a group of guys saying "there's never anything for men at these shows." After hearing that I expanded my product line to include belt buckles and cufflinks; they were a hit. My product line eventually expanded to prints, t-shirts, and now DIY kits based off of my illustrations.
In October of 2012 I opened a brick and mortar shop in Pike Place Market called Ugly Baby and La Ru with Rosalie Gale (Ugly Baby). The shop was only 300 sq ft. After five years we out grew the space and I decided to open a new shop called Robot vs Sloth, still located in the Pike Place Market (1535 1st Ave, on the corner of 1st and Pine). Robot vs Sloth carries my artwork along with a curated selection of Seattle artists.
