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$5 Off Society6 iPhone Cases

Nathan Olsen — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 21:39:29 +0000

Online e-retailer Society6 is offering $5 off all iPhone cases between now and Sunday. If you were interested in having some of my artwork on your iPhone, now is your chance. You can see my cases here, here and here.

My Lovebot illustrations are also available on Society6 as prints, canvases and laptop skins. You can see my full store here.

In addition to Society6, I also have a few skateboard decks, a t-shirt and other merch available through Artzprojekt.

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Creature Comforts

Nathan Olsen — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 07:21:29 +0000

The body of work I’ve been developing over the past six months has been about my childhood. This piece is probably the most personal — I used handwriting from my grandmother, mother and father in the background and the bear pattern was the creation of my mom, who was a teddy bear maker in the 1980s. She was never a big name in the business, but her bears have been published in teddy bear calendars and occasionally find their way onto Ebay. My parents’ creative efforts had a profound affect on my childhood, so this was partially an attempt to address my feelings about their work.

Growing up, I never had a sense that I came from a creative family. Even though my father was a woodworker and my mother designed bears, I never connected that to my compulsion to draw. It wasn’t until years later when I discovered a box of old manuscripts that my grandmother had written in the 1950s and started going through the photographic negatives from my grandfather’s darkroom that I started to understand the role my family played in how I developed into the person I am today.

My grandparents were quite old by the time I was born. So were my parents, for that matter. My grandfather died when I was eight and my grandmother was in a nursing home with dementia by the time I was a teenager. I lost my parents to cancer in 2002 and 2006. At thirty-four, I feel like I’m just now starting to understand who I am and my place in the world and I envy people who have the opportunity at my age to know their parents and grandparents as peers rather than as authority figures.

Me? I am left to converse with the dead. They don’t talk much, but they’re good listeners.

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Jack, The Giant Robot Killer Illustration

Nathan Olsen — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 02:14:56 +0000

Cue Guitar Solo

Nathan Olsen — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 06:24:12 +0000

I’ve been meaning to put this up for a couple of weeks now. It was on display last week in the graduate advancement show at California State University, Long Beach.

I Think It’s Done

Nathan Olsen — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 06:29:17 +0000

Well, after working on it for a good week-and-a-half, I think the illustration I’ve been working on is done. A week-and-a-half? I am ridiculously slow.

The Robot Show

Nathan Olsen — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 01:54:16 +0000

My latest illustration, shown above, will be on display in The Robot Show at California State University, Long Beach. The opening reception will be at 5:00 p.m., Sunday, October 28, 2007.