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Sesame Street – Signs for Guests

Posted: October 28, 2013-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: Sesame Street, Illustration-Tags: sesame street, drawings, critters

Part of our job in the Graphics Department at Sesame Street was fashioning some dressing room door signs whenever a celebrity guest would stop by - Pete Ortiz and I would take turns drawing the signs (or call dibs if someone we liked a lot was going to be on the show!) Here is a [...]

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Art Supplies – Sesame Street Season 43

Posted: September 8, 2013-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: Sesame Street, Propmaking-Tags: sesame, Illustration, Props

One of the main concentrations of this past season at Sesame Street was Art, so I had quite a bit of art supplies to create!   Grouchy Art Supplies Oscar the Grouch wanted to paint himself a big gloppy painting, so I made some fake paint squeeze bottles for Oscar and the other puppets - [...]

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I got nominated for an Emmy!

Posted: September 4, 2013-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: Sesame Street, Propmaking-Tags: sesame street

This year, I was nominated for an Emmy along with the rest of our Art Department team at Sesame Street (Bob Phillips, Pete Ortiz, Keith Olsen & Rickey Boyd)  for an "Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction / Set Decoration / Scenic Design" Emmy. I got to bring my dad along to the awards ceremony and [...]

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Cereal Boxes for Hooper’s Store

Posted: October 5, 2012-Likes: 0-Comments: 1-Categories: Sesame Street, Illustration-Tags: sesame, hooper, graphics

I made two new cereal boxes to place on the shelves of Hooper's Store. When I was pasting new labels onto the old cereal boxes, I discovered that the cereal in the box had expired in 1999! We're at work right now preparing for Season 44 - there are so many details that need to [...]

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Magazines for Hooper’s Store – Sesame Street

Posted: September 28, 2012-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: Sesame Street, Illustration-Tags: sesame street, sesame, graphics

The magazines for Hooper's Store were getting kinda ratty, so I made a few new issues to add to the shelves and spruce the place up in preparation for season 44. I was using random photos from my camera's memory card, hence the odd topics - like "Quackers," the magazine for ducks who like to [...]

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Sesame Street Florist Logo

Posted: November 21, 2011-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: Sesame Street, Propmaking-Tags: sesame, drawings, critters

The florist's storefront on Sesame Street needed some dressin' up, so I made this sticker for their window, along with some stickers for non-existent credit cards.

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Sesame Street – iPad Drawings

Posted: October 13, 2011-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: Sesame Street, Sesame Street, Propmaking-Tags: sesame, drawings, Comics

I drew these pictures for Sesame Street - Prince Charming and a Princess involved in their day-to-day activities. It appeared in an episode where an apple ipad was used for the the first time on the show.

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Fake Pies for Sesame Street

Posted: April 26, 2011-Likes: 0-Comments: 0-Categories: Sesame Street-Tags: Props, sesame street, willkrause

I made these two pies for a cooking segment on Sesame Street. One pie needed to be made out of eight complete baked apples, and the other out of eight sliced apples, with a pair of eyeglasses hidden inside. I made the crusts out of sculpey, and the apples were standard fake styrofoam fruit... I [...]

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Junk Mail for Big Bird

Posted: April 25, 2011-Likes: 0-Comments: 3-Categories: Sesame Street-Tags: willkrause, sesame, Props

I needed to make a few junk mail flyers that were going to arrive in Big Bird's mailbox. I stayed late one day to make sure that the "birds in slacks" flyer was done in time.

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Greeking Garbage for Grouches

Posted: March 9, 2011-Likes: 0-Comments: 2-Categories: Sesame Street, Propmaking-Tags: Props, sesame street, willkrause

"Greeking" is when logos are obscured, or fake product names are made for labels that will appear on television. These are some cans I made for Oscar the Grouch. I used globs of hot glue to simulate goop on the cans... the best part of making things for the grouch is that it is okay [...]

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Sesame Street – Dollar Bill

Posted: September 20, 2010-Likes: 1-Comments: 0-Categories: Sesame Street, Propmaking-Tags: sesame, Illustration, Props

I designed this dollar bill for a Sesame Street episode about finance. It needed to be easy for children to find the numeral "1" in the design, and look familiar as a banknote, but not so close to the design of the US dollar bill to get us into legal trouble. The original drawing of [...]

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Sesame Street – Letters and Numbers for Sesame Street

Posted: December 15, 2009-Likes: 1-Comments: 0-Categories: Sesame Street, Propmaking-Tags: Props, sesame street, willkrause

I'm working in the Art Department of Sesame Street, and I made plenty of letters and numbers for the 41st season. Most were made out of foamcore or blue foam, but I did make some "7's" that I scored so that they would break apart easily when Cookie Monster chomped on them.  

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