Free Shipping!

Hey guys-- just wanted to inform you all that for a limited time, you can get FREE SHIPPING on all orders at my online shop, redbubble.com/people/clairenobles using the code WEEKENDBLAST

Not sure how long the sale lasts, but I'd imagine through the weekend, given the context clues of the code. =)

Here are some ideas of what you can get!

Night and Day Embrace ©2012
One of my most popular fantasy designs now as throwable art!

Pop Cat Series - 01 ©2014
Send someone a card (or five) with little Victoria the Cat on it! They'll melt from the cuteness!

Paint Dancing ©2013
For the dancer/dance lover in your life (to carry dance stuff)

Lurking in the Deep ©2012
Can't go wrong hanging this in your bathroom.

Octopus 1 ©2012
Or get a print and frame it later!

Skull 1 ©2013
This will make your phone way cooler.

The Fox Says... ©2014
My personal favorite right now. 

All of the art designs above also come on different products. Not all designs are available on each item though. Please message me if you wish to see more options!

YOLO, you only live once, so you may as well decorate your living area, electronics, and self with some rad art. And you'd be supporting me to make MORE ART! YAY!

Thanks for reading, have an awesome weekend!

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The Fox Says YOLO (Coz She, Also Likes to Live Dangerously)

The Fox Says... ©2014

Well, mystery solved.

Above is my new design available at my shop as prints, cards, throw pillows, tote bags, onesies, and clothing for adults and kids.

After months of internal debate sparked by the Ylvis Song "What Does the Fox Say," I finally found out.

Throwable Art!!!

I was driving home around midnight (past my bedtime) and this crazy thing happened to me. I know this sounds like the start of a young adult novel with wizards and vampires, but I'm not making this up, I promise.

As I drove up this hill, in the dead of night, I was humming that ridiculously catchy song and trying to think of a corresponding art piece to make. So out of no where, a Fox, yes, a real FOX, runs across the road causing me to brake and maybe, possibly scream like the teenager. I didn't hit him or her, so don't worry, this isn't a story about me killing a wild animal-- thank goodness! So I was able to witness the little orange adorableness sort of notice me, decide he or she didn't care and ultimately flee into the bushes.

Get this shirt to show Shirt-Readers how Bad Ass you really are. Tell them Claire sent you.

I took this bit of magic as a sign (coz why not). Animals seem to love running in front of people's cars. Not sure if they're being dared by their animal friends or just doing it for the thrill. (I jest.)

Many teenagers, young people and hipsters seem to also fall into this idea of dare-devilry and sum it up in one ridiculous word which, let's be perfectly clear, is a dumbed down version of Carpe Diem: YOLO.

Take your new attitude with you and show people how you live: with this tote bag- ONCE!

To the people who have been spared from the stupidity, Y.O.L.O. stands for You Only Live Once.

It's a phrase I love to hate. And I'm being decidedly hipster about this phrase by only using it ironically. Though in fact, it's not hipster to point out that you're being hipstery, but then again screw hipsters. Go form opinions that aren't based on forced irony, you uncreative, insufferable, bowler hat-wearing, unicycle-riding embarrassments to society! But god, I love your flair for style, politics, environmentalism, feminism, beards and bowler hat-wearing. But I'm not trying to be ironic.

For the times that your hipster self needs no explanation necessary, just walk away (while presumably wearing this hoodie.... It comes in other colors.)

So spread the word! Tell people your story! Stay up past your bedtime, because you also like to live dangerously! Shout it from rooftops! And above all, try not to fall off of the the rooftop you were shouting from-- after all you do seriously live once, unless we get reincarnated, but if we do, we clearly have no knowledge or scientific evidence of this supposed past life or lives so it all seems kind of pointless to assume that it's a great privilege to live as a banana slug in your next life but if you truly theorize that we only live once, you may want to try and actually *stay alive* during that allotted time because otherwise even if there is an afterlife in heaven, do you honestly want to be the one who climbed a roof coz your friends were telling you to do it (because YOLO!) and you plummeted to your death at the young age of 22?

*slow claps*

Be cooler than your friends and get a sticker!

My point is: You probably, most likely only live once. Make good decisions that don't involve risking your life --unless it's to impress others.

(As usual, don't take me too seriously, I jest.)

Have a great rest of your lunch!
And Carpe Diem!

I Suppose I'll Be a Real Adult Now

My cousin Anne, putting on my shoes- coz she is just that helpful!

This past month, I finally graduated from San Francisco State University!!!

My time at SFSU was possibly the best experience of my life. I gained so many friends, knowledge, a few hangovers, too many laughing fits, a fake arranged marriage and above all I gained perspective on what is important to me as an artist.

Now that I have become a "real adult," I possess the awesome and terrifying position of accounting for my artistic actions. 

My last semester of college finally let me branch out into the type of art I *wanted* to create. I was free to draw and paint whatever I wanted. No prompts, no assigned material, no rules or guidelines other than making pieces of art. Whatever sort of canvas I wanted, utensils, pigments and ideas I had, I was free to do.

While I was in school, any piece I created would be questioned by my audience. "Why did you draw a naked person?" "Why did you make a drawing of random objects?" "What does the pink color symbolize in this painting?" I had to constantly let them know it was always "for an assignment." After my teachers began to assign paintings in my upper division classes, I had a bit more freedom in what I wanted to create. I would still get annoying questions though. "Why did you paint yourself as the subject?" "So you're filled with angst?" "What prompted you to paint this?!!" But I always had the fall back: It was the assignment!

Now that I've graduated, I don't have that excuse. Now I have to account for my art. I can't say "oh, I made a piece about domestic violence because that was the assignment!" I have to own up to it. I have to have an explanation as to why I create what I create.

"You Shouldn't Have Provoked Him" - ©2014

Above - Something that is said too often and needs to change. Stop blaming women for being the victim of abuse, assault, and rape. So I'm now "filled with angst?" Fine. Now I've "become one of those crazy feminists?" Fine. So now I'm finally speaking out about and addressing uncomfortable topics head on. Welcome to my world. I'm usually put on spot unexpectedly, so I guess I'll be the first to initiate.

The cartoons I doodle are easy to explain. The fairies and fantasy are polite for the public. The ink drawings of animals are pleasing to most. However, nudity, feminism, body image, domestic violence, dysfunction, politics, social commentary are usually judged with confusion "Why would you paint that?" Because as an artist or as a person who lives in this world, I don't want to hold back on social issues I feel are important and much of the time, ignored. Yes, I love creating pictures that are pretty, but the point of art is not to make a pretty picture to fit into a mould that makes everyone comfortable.  Art is about creative expression and pushing boundaries within ourselves. Art is about movement and exploration, passion and change. I didn't spend nearly 6 years going to school just to make happy, pretty pictures. Although at first, I thought that was the point.

So I promise, I'll do a better job of being a real adult. I am a person who wants to have discussions, new ideas and collaborations.

I love all of you. You guys have helped me grow so much in this creative journey. Because of you guys, I can be versatile with my art and do what I love all the time. Bring on the surreal, the discussions, the cartoons and the passion.