Gir in the sky

Ever heard of Invader Zim? Gir? Well, I haven't but I know someone who loves Gir that much, that she named a cat after him. So here comes Gir on pig for the girl with Gir with claws!

Avenue Q rocks!

I have never heard of that Broadway-Musical before, until a friend came to me and asked me for a favor. He plays Nicky in Avenue Q and built quite a few of the puppets needed for the show which was shown in the Knox Community Arts Centre in Melbourne.

It was hilarious!

Here we go (the order of the shirts is just mere coincidence, it has nothing to say about the role in the musical):

Trekkie x 2, because he is played by two people who share the part of his speaking:


Gary Coleman:

Bad Idea Bears, three of them:



Kate Monster:

Mrs Thistletwat:

Lucy the Slut:

Princeton:

Rod:

Nicky:
And some more staff:

Phantom Duck!

I love Phantom Duck! Ever since Donald Duck discovered the secret diary in Villa Rosa and we got into the joy of reading his adventures of when Donald can act like a hero and looses his clumsiness.

Reason enough for me to paint a t-shirt with him.

Artist's little helper!

Here the finished shirt:

And a cat tries to claim the credits!

More Shirts!

I painted two new shirts that I wanted to show. Unfortunatly both are not my own creation, there are shirts like these that you can actually buy. But still I keep the tradition up in giving my partner a WoW-Shirt and it is made with love!


And this one is for me. It's just so funny!

Marsupilami rocks!

One of my favourite comic series is that of Spirou and Fantasio. And in there early years when it was Franquin who drew them they were acomponied by the weird creature called Marsupilami. With the time you get really attached to the little fellow.

When Franquin stopped with Spirou he took the rights for the Marsupilami with him so that in the later episodes he is missed. Franquin continued with a spinoff series solely around the Marsupilami and his family (a different marsupilami though), which I didn't enjoy as much. He is awesome as a sidekick but as main character... there was something missing...

Nevertheless he is cool!

Some of his characteristics are: being amphibious, laying eggs that hatch, having an eight-meter-tail, loves eating fleas and piranhas and talking Huba huba!

World of Warcraft

World of Warcraft is a well-known online computer game. I don't know too much about it but as my partner asked me for a shirt with this emblem I said yes.

Most important was this paw in the middle. I think she would have been happy just with that. But I was eager to proof myself if I can manage to paint the rest too.

I think I can book this as a success, eh? The white chalk helpmarks were removed before I fixed the paint with ironing.

New T-Shirts!

After a long time not being creative, I started with some t-shirts. The reason for this long break is my moving to Melbourne and getting settled down here.

Well, a dear friend wished to have this sentence on a shirt. And as she loves green, this is what she got:

The goodnight kiwi landet on a shirt for my mum in memory of our time in New Zealand:

And this basset hound went onto a shirt for my sister:

Goodbye-Shirt

This t-shirt was made under bad omens.

Something happened that has never happened before when fixing the color to the fabric. As I painted the front and back side I placed the shirt in a rather adventurous way in my oven and I think I decided to use the wrong heating style.
Well, I burned it.
It had a brown scar on the backside and when I tried to rub it off I suddenly had a hole in the fabric!

Ok, two possibilities: paint it new or recycle.

I chose to recycle it. To get more traveller style. I cut out the painted fabric parts that luckily were unscared. Then I glued it onto a new shirt to keep it in place while sewing it on.

Some days later I noticed that on the front there were glue spots visible! Ok, I thought about it and searched for some iron patches to hide the spots.

Iron ready, patches placed. A cloth over the first patch, ironing for 3-4 minutes. Turned it over!
I ironed the patch onto the cloth!
Now I got really mad!
I teared a hole into the cloth with trying to get the butterfly off again. Then I glued the first butterfly and the second was perfectly ironed.


Thanks for reading. The story behind the t-shirt is self-explaining. In English it means: "And I'm gone then..."

Front


Back

I just hope my adventure is not such a failure as this shirt!

Calvin and Hobbes!

It was time for a new shirt! I wanted to make one with Calvin and Hobbes for a long time and now I thought this is it!


I just love this comic and I'm a big fan of Bill Watterson!

I'm looking forward to wear this one!

Mutts

I love the mutts-comics from Patrick McDonnell and so I knew I will have them on a t-shirt soon. Well, not much to see from Mooch and Earl on this one. But I'm pretty sure there will follow others.

A lot of underwater life that cannot be seen from outside. I am quite scared of open waters because the idea of miles of water underneath me full of animals and life makes me feel uneasy. But seeing it on pictures is ok!

And here a full view of the shirt:

T-Shirts as presents

is a hard thing to do. But I think I was lucky, I got the right sizes... At least I was told...

This one was for my Dad. A maori-style application. But without close up, painting on polo is really cruel!

This cute koala+kiwi t-shirt went to my dear Natalia.

There was a third I made as a gift, using the logo of an online game for my cousin. But there is no picture of that one. And I think those will be the only ones made in this way. Further t-shirts will be only for my or after getting a shirt from others.

New T-Shirts!

This time I made some more.

Two girls sitting back to back. Well, that reminds me of some logo...

Two cheeky little mice sitting in a fake pocket.

Watched by a huge black cat!

And a confused Dori from the movie "Finding Nemo".

Matrix-t-shirt

Nothing more to say here... I think I watched to much TV...