Stop by to see Seal Paint!

Hi all! Don't forget that you can see Seal in action once again doing a live painting show with the ever talented Lawrence Yang at Hyphen's Issue 19 release party: the Blaze of Glory! Monkey will also be on hand selling Seal's prints and his ties, so be sure to check it out!

The show is at 111 Minna, and starts at 9pm. Seal should start painting around 9:30-10pm. Cover is $10, but if you pay $20, you also get a 1 year subscription! Cool beans! You can check out Hyphen's FB event page for more info.

Paper Hat Productions Features: Alyss Estay

Featuring Alyss Estay
She is an incredibly creative, talented and articulate artist. Her fine arts serigraphs have those hard-to-execute beautiful gradient washes, subtly-mixed muted palettes, and innovative scenes. And all of it is screenprinted! To produce something of this detailed caliber takes an unbelievable amount of accuracy in registration.

We are happy to have her on our March gallery show. March 12th 8pm at SPACE Gallery, 1141 Polk St.




If you are connected on Facebook, you can RSVP here.

Paper Hat Production features: Alexander Shen!

Today we'll have a little spotlight on Alexander Shen, the comic mastermind behind comics such as Robot in the City and Capesville, as well as fun little games found under the umbrella of Shen Games.

Also a talented singer/songwriter, Alexander likes to "spend most of his time dabbling and less of his time dobbling." You can usually catch Mr. Shen at the Alternative Press Expo, APAture, and most recently at the Giant Robot SF Print show. Anyhoo, please check out his plethora of sites (I'd recommend starting with his blog) and enjoy the hours of comic goodness he's got to offer!

See you on the 12th!

Seal's Live Painting!

Woooo! February is turning out to be such a busy month for Monkey + Seal! We apologize for the lack of process posts, but so many freelance projects and events are popping up, we're struggling just to keep up!

Seal has just confirmed that she'll be doing some live painting at Hyphen Magazine's latest issue's Release Party! It's the big bash at 111 Minna for Issue #19, the Trailblazing Issue, on Friday, February 26 (the night before the Pop N' Shop).

Anyway, Monkey will be on hand selling our wondrous merch and supporting Seal's first live painting event! We'd love for familiar faces (and not-so familiar faces) to stop by and say hello! We hope to see you there!

Half-birthdays + Noise Pop N' Shop

Monkey + Seal buddy Molly is having her Half-Birthday today! We thought the idea was so cute and fun that perhaps Monkey + Seal might adopt the idea of the half-birthday party: you have a smaller, "half" birthday on your actual birthday, as well as a party for 6 months from you birthday.

This concept could be super awesome for kids who have birthdays in the summer (Monkey knows this shafting by school systems all too well), as well as for kids who have birthdays during the winter, especially if your birthday falls within a few days of the commercial juggernaut of Christmas (like Monkey's younger brother).

Additionally, let us remind you to keep next Saturday (not tomorrow, but the 27th) open for the Noise Pop N' Shop! Yay! We'll be selling from 12pm-5pm in the Verde Club on Mariposa in SF! We hope to see you all there!

What is at the end of Dreams?

Sorry Monkey and Seal have been out with the flu this past couple of days. We're both fighting hard. Seal sees sickness as a sign to take things a little slower. Lately she has been feeling anxious about having to make art and be able to live off her art. But like any worthy dream, it takes a lot of work and time, but never at the cost of one's health or enjoyment of life.

Seal has recently come to the realization that her day job has been taking much too much time away from her art. She is taking this time to re-prioritize.

She came across this quote: "What is at the end of dreams?"

What happens when you have "succeeded in accomplishing what you have striving for all these years . . ." Seal wants to find out when she gets there, but she suspects, that there will just be more dreams. You will feel triumphant, . . . then you look for another adventure. So there never really is an end to dreams.

At this time, as Monkey and Seal are pushing past obstacles, working weary to the bones, to make their art dreams come true, someday they will look back upon it and say: "From the beginning, it could have been done. That was hard work, but it was worth it. What's next ?"

Paper Hat Productions Website is now up!

Here is the official Paper Hat Productions "Out of Place" Gallery website. Check out our line up of amazing artists! While Monkey and Seal were working on the getting the artists together, we were thrilled to have noticed that everyone was coming from a unique perspective and interpretations of "out of place."

Click through each of the artist's page to find out more about them and get a sneak peek of their work and style.

For the March 12th Opening Night Extravaganza, we will be featuring an art team battle, pairing up artists who have never worked with each other before, may have different styles and approach, and asking them to come up with a spontaneous collaboration piece based on an audience-selected topic.

We are also very happy and excited to add Zaion as our talented DJ to the mix!

Without further a do, we will start to feature each individual artists in the coming days. First up, is Haruka.

"By using traditional method of printmaking such as woodcutting, I want the print to bring up the problems that we face as a global society and to show the meaning of cultural importance to the public. [ . . .] By showing intricate lines, . . . my idea is to face an inquiry of being lost in translation and to notify my generation of the stance we have to take in order to blend our past with our present while rediscovering our deeply rooted culture." - Haruka

You can find her official art blog here.