Party Clothes: July 2008

Get Comfortable with Party Clothes

Welcome to Party Clothes.
Put on your favorite old T-shirt and kick back and enjoy depictions of the world of herpetological jocularity. You are invited to scroll through and enjoy the art and philosophy. There is even a special feature interview with the artist if you want to know more of the creation story.

Be dressed for your next party!
If you identify with these wacky, party loving characters, you can go shopping at Zazzle or RedBubble and treat yourself to a new Party Clothes T-shirt bearing the image of your new party mascot. And for perfect stylistic absurdity, we also have matching mugs.

One drop of creative effort generates the ripples of creative life that reach out to all kindred spirits willing to laugh at themselves!

Marking the Times

As an artist, the designs of animal's markings have always fascinated me. Whether fish, bird, reptile or mammal, they are ever so unselfconsciously dressed for the occasion of life. And yet their trappings are exquisite, bold, subtle…sometimes dangerous, each uniquely designed to camouflage, protect, attract and identify.

Stealing animals clothes began as a necessity and then became ritualized. We made their clothes our clothes, we wore their skins as trophies and we fashioned them into symbols to brand our accomplishments and to advertise our status.

Association with animal traits is an ancient empathy. Feathers to show freedom, tiger stripes for bravery, innocence wrapped in soft bunny fur.

Now evolved, donning the costume of bird or beast is archaic. Luckily for creatures, their depiction has become more and more the benevolent province of art. Morphing animal bodies with our own in imagery is legendary.

By warp & weft, paint, print and stamp, zoological emblems decorate our garb the way we would have, in days gone by, worn a bear claw or feathered cape.

Today the modern logo T-shirt serves as our ceremonial robe. Ironic that what began as a concealed undergarment should become the most ubiquitous outward expression of individualism. A standard to fly our distinctive colors. Our choice of attire when we just want to be ourselves and escape the daily uniform of mediocrity, T-shirts are our Party Clothes.

T-shirts have become tradition and the modern expression of identity—the universal badge, flag of the individual, pride of the pride. And this is what human creatures really want, not just to belong but to show they belong.

T-shirts record the historical fabric of culture with more veracity than any chronicle. T-shirts illustrate popular culture as it is spontaneously lived, a faded legacy worn over the hearts of the species. They’re desirable, cherished, collectible.

Simply put, T-Shirts are truth!

Get Comfortable with Party Clothes

Party Clothes T-shirt Gallery

Party Clothes Designs on a Mug

Vinney snags a damselfly

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What I do

Another Face

Attire that doesn't tire

T-shirts are Truth!

Collections

A little preview

Be dressed for the party!

Fine Art Prints, cards and postage from Zazzle

Marking the Times

Other very cool stuff you don't want to miss

A must see for all frog lovers

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Gregory A. Gallo

More Gorgeous Art

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