Showing posts with label Retro. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Retro. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Affordable Hipster Pin-Back Buttons and Simpsons Button Pins

punk rock hipster pin back button 90's cartoon designs for generation x techno dance party fashion nerds
An assorted pile of punk rock pin back buttons by Palm Treat.

Affordable Hipster Pin-Back Buttons and Simpsons Button Pins

Trippy Awesome 90s Pin Back Buttons, 90s Simpsons Themed pin-back buttons, Party Buttons, I love the 90s, 90s buttons, and Simpsons Artwork pins. Affordable Simpson's merchandise is available by Detroit Native Artists Jeff Nolan and Marie Nolan. The Simpsons pin packs are colorful and easy to find. 

Hipster punk rock pins and 90's pins are popular and are for sale online though the Palm Treat online store and website. Pins are .875" and hand punched. The artwork is Simpsons based and carefully created. These hand crafted 90's pins are durable with plastic backing and clean enamel coating on top.

Pin packs also include Catwoman comic book pins, pineapple tropical pins, cow print pins, illuminati pins, Doritos chip pins, Homer Simpson face melting pin, Bart Simpson and Bort Simpson three eyed trippy pins, Milhouse with six eyes pin, comic book vintage inspired pins, Itchy and Scratchy pins, Mr. Burns pins, and more!

Palm Treat Pineapple Logo, Pineapple Art and Having a Tropicália Logo

Palm Treat logo tropicalia pink pineapple cocktail design with a cherry on top
The Palm Treat logo is an example of Tropicalia.

Palm Treat Pineapple Logo, Pineapple Art and Having a Tropicália Logo

Palm Treat has a one of a kind tropical art logo made on Illustrator. In the 1960's Tropicalismo was a promenade art subculture that was a Brazilian art movement. The avant-garde movement was not only visual, but musical, experimental, and theatrical.


Carmen Miranda is well known for her beautiful performance draped in tropical fruit and beautiful tropical high contrast artistic clothing. David Byrne and Mutantes are also inspired by Tropicália. Creators of Palm Treat Marie Nolan and Jeff Nolan aspire to include the late 1960's movement because of its visual properties. Pop art and folk art that Palm Treat makes include highly saturated colors, tropical print affordable artwork, neon and bright colors, decorative Brazilian art,and trippy 1960's art.

Palm Treat loves South American art and tropical colored art. Palm Treat's Marie Nolan is from Florida and often romanticizes neon banding and oceanic themes and oceanic artwork. The Brazilian concrete movement is important and inspiring for artists. pós-tropicalismo (post-tropicalism)is still highly used and shows up in many artist's work, rather they realize it or not. As American Artists, Palm Treat opened their studio in New Mexico and was heavily inspired by the Native American culture and design.

Palm Treat supports Hispanic artists and will forever be inspired by any 1960's artist movement!

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Artwork in Progress and the Process of Painting Pop Art

Trippy retro comic book girl by Palm Treat designers and outsider folk artists Jeff Nolan & Marie Nolan, inspired by Roy Lichtenstein style of pop art painting and nostalgic artworks and posters from mid century americana
Folk artist Marie Nolan & Jeff Nolan working on a painting.

Artwork in Progress and the Process of Painting Pop Art

Palm Treat has an excellent visual art making process which includes viewing Andy Warhol references, Art Forum Magazine, Art in America Magazine, Mad Magazine, Hi Fructose Magazine, Art Blend Magazine, and other successful Magazines that showcase solo art shows and well known illustrators and designers.

 Then the process moves to a brainstorming session where the two artists Marie Nolan and Jeff Nolan meet up and discuss pop art techniques and designs. The meeting is full of thumbnail sketches, napkin drawings, Simpson's references, vintage comic book layouts, historical influences and visually stimulating color schemes and shapes. The design process begins with a digital mock up and is followed by hours, sometimes days of editing to achieve compositional correctness.

Next, Jeff Nolan and Marie Nolan hand draw the image onto hand stretched canvas and begin to manipulate the digital mock up with effervescent bursts of organic lines and shapes. Nothing is set in stone, so there is room to edit and redraw areas and even change colors along the way. It's a fun process that both artists enjoy.

Finally, Jeff Nolan and Marie Nolan post photos of the paintings on social media platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, Tumblr, and Blogger. This ensures that Palm Treat fans and Simpsons fans can locate their online store.

Find more pop art by internet artists Palm Treat.