I think a lot about kitchens.  This is not only because I seem to spend an inordinate amount of my non-studio time in the kitchen, either cooking with friends or raiding the fridge.  A lot of my artwork is very kitchen-friendly (chickens and vegetables, anyone?) and so naturally I tend to spend time thinking about ways to apply my art to add beauty to a kitchen.

At shows I meet a lot of people who love the bold and dramatic look of my hand-carved Asian Vegetable block prints.  But it’s a smaller subset of people who have the luxury of a big, empty wall space in their kitchen to hang the framed prints.   I started thinking, Why not hand-screenprint designs on dish towels?  Almost every kitchen, no matter how cozy, has an oven handle or a towel rack or some kind of horizontal bar where one hangs a dish towel.  Why not use that space to add a dramatic artistic bit o’ flair?  Best of all, there is no framing involved and it’s easy to switch out your artwork– just throw it in the wash and replace with a different bold design.  It’s like having a traveling art show in your kitchen.

With that philosophy in mind, I’ve added 4 cool new cotton flour-sack dishtowels to my product line.  Each design was originally hand-carved into blocks.  Like all my vegetable and fruit illustrations, the inspiration for these designs came from the fresh-picked produce of the incredible Chino Farms.  I love the bold black and white designs on the white background, and the little red accent gives each one just the right amount of punch.

The towels come singly or in a gift pack of 4 (1 each of the 4 designs).

And if you want even more variety, I have gift packs of 4 green vegetables and 4 colorful chickens.

Instantly add some rustic zing to your kitchen with these five new screenprinted chicken kitchen towels. I’m so excited about these new designs.  The artwork is big and bold, the fabric is super-absorbent flour sack, and the colors are fun and complement each other well.

Only $10 each, or get all 5 for $42.50 (save 15%)

These make such a terrific match with my block print Hen and Rooster wall art that I’ve put together some combo gift packs.  Click on the links to be taken to the store:

The “Betty” collection: Save 15%: Two Towels, Two Prints
The “Rosie Ann” collection: SAVE 25%: Five Towels, Three Prints

By popular demand, I’ve turned some of the images from my illustrated vegetables card series into 8″ x 10″ prints.  Now there are 5 designs to choose from:

Carrots, Strawberries, Eggplants, Cherry Tomatoes, and Winter Vegetables.

Rats done nibbled our fava beans! It was time to harvest, anyway.

A first picking yielded a bumper crop! Our fava patch is only maybe 5 feet square.

And still, more beans ripening… hopefully that dirty rat won’t get any more.