The Chameleon From Hong Kong (Book Trailer)

David has written a novel, and it will be available on Amazon in early 2017. In the meantime, here's a (very short) video to introduce the book. (All of the images are Challis & Roos artwork!) Check out the video here

Canyon Shadows

A coyote sings
as the desert clouds
make shadows
on the canyon's shifting floor of sand.
(Some new artwork from this afternoon...!)

Cloudwaves

And all at once, a choir of cloudwaves lifted our little island up, up, up into the sky. The vibrating sun served as our beacon as we sailed onward to our new home. "The air is clearer up here," agreed all the trees and flowers. And the weight of the world began to feel like such a long, long time ago.

Standing On The Corner (Stockton & Pacific)

Some new artwork from this week. Kind of a new, experimental style.

Currently, these illustrations exist digitally, but will eventually be transformed into large-scale, life-sized canvases.

Secrets Of The Universe

Some brand new artwork from this morning.

...And may we whisper the secrets of the universe into each other's unsuspecting ears...

Suburban Desert

There are new houses going up, the framing's almost done
And every one of them, bigger than the last one
The miles don't seem to stretch quite as far as they used to

I don't smoke cigarettes, but sometimes I forget
And my fingers start lighting little fires
But it's unstable, when there's a breeze
The spark goes out, along with all of these

desert dreams

(lyrics from the song "Little Fires" by David)

Reflections On Marcia, Marcia, Marcia

Maureen McCormick is 60. 

Wait,
No that can't be

Cause that would make me:

Fabulous

As my striped bell bottom trousers

Springy

As my super-mod teenage perm

Fishy

As a mock trial for Bobby

After Kitty Karry-All goes missing

Golden

As the sweetly processed voice of

Fringe-vested Johnny Bravo

Lucky

As the cursed-idol-finding Bobby

On the island of eerie Vincent Price

Feathered

As the sharply pointed wings of Mom's new bob

Ironic

As Buddy Hinton's payback for his mocking chant

"Baby talk, baby talk, it's a wonder you can walk"

Crisp

As the pleats in Alice's blue-grey uniform

Clean

As the lines on Sexy-Dad's drafting table

Memorable

As a soft kiss from dreamy Davy Jones

(I'll never wash my cheek again)

Swift

As the speed with which Clark Tyson replaces "George Glass" in Jan's Heart

Fluffy

As a guest starring role played by

Gilligan's Island's Natalie "Lovey" Schafer

Slapstick

As the heist of a rival school's mascot

(A goat named Raquel)

Satisfying

As pork chops & applesauce, shweetheart 

Pork chops & applesauce

(this artwork isn't the Brady house, simply our rendering of a cool place in Seattle built during that era)

Fistful Of Stars (Music Video)

A mysterious, unpeopled factory in New England manufactures curious white cubes. Each side of each cube is robotically painted with a different color of the cosmos. The cubes are packed and shipped en masse to....(?) En route, there is some kind of trouble with the emergency exit, and all boxes tumble to the sea. Underwater, the cubes rearrange themselves into one Massive Cube, which spins and levitates out of the water and into the stratosphere, twirling through the stars, and eventually linking with the one remaining slot in a centuries-in-the-making Mega-Cube, which, in turn, spins and spins into a glowing ball of energy, or....?

That's the basic plot of this new music video, animated entirely with Challis & Roos artwork.

Watch the entire video here

If You're Going To San Francisco...

Spotted last weekend at the San Francisco Pride Festival at Civic Center... This festive couple decked out in hand-torn strips of Challis & Roos fabric! One of our "rainbow energetic geometric" designs, manufactured exclusively by Fabric Traditions.
Happy Pride!!!

Havana Afternoon

Some brand new artwork inspired by a very recent trip to a beautiful little island just south of Florida...    ¡La isla de Cuba es brillante y colorido.. y muy, muy caliente!

New Challis & Roos Stretched Canvas Wall Art!

15 Challis & Roos designs, available for the first time in this ultra-cool stretched canvas format! There are four size options for each design, ranging from 10x10 all the way up to 18x24. Check out these six designs here here here here here and here

Year Of The Monkey!

Many wishes for a most memorable monkey year. Playful, monkey-style energy all year long!

Wishin' & Hopin'

Pavement cracks follow a tree root path
Underneath a parked car, across the street and back
The outline looks a little like a ring of fire that has already burned through half
Pavement cracks follow a tree root path

Sitting in the back seat of an orange cab
Listening for the war to start, listening for the siren of a breaking heart
Quiet, content, and happy with what I had
Sitting in the back seat of an orange cab

Sometimes the block used to lose power, when the train used to roll on by
Until they put the wires underground, built a wall for us all to live our lives behind
I always thought the train was there to remind us about all the things we might like to try
But the block used to lose power, when the train used to roll on by

So now we take a cab, when we want to get away

To a cafe on a beach in Mexico
Where the radio competes with a mariachi band
Familiar song from the 60s, that we always used to hear every time our plane would land
And we'd all start humming along

When the mariachi band headed into the kitchen
We could hear Dusty Springfield singing of her hopin' and her wishin'

(Lyrics from the song "Orange Cab"-- written by David a few years ago, and recently performed at an open mic event in London)

And The Stars Look Very Different Today

Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do...

2016