Art, Baby







I started the first illustration and called it 'Melancholy Baby' but then when I did the next drawing I realized that I didn't want to use "baby" to refer to a girl or woman.
Its cute, but degrading, I think.

This one is my favorite, I made this the same night that I went to a Reiki workshop. I was feeling the love for sure.
(thank you Angie!)



So I put a comma in to make it more of a statement. Like "Yeah, baby!" I feel better about it now.



I liked drawing the hair on this one.

I originally spelled Melancholy wrong so I whited out with that White-Out tape, what a disaster!
I have to put this in Photoshop this weekend and clean it up.

 

When I was a kid I was infatuated with Vogue and Glamour magazine and would draw anything and everything from those pages. I wanted to be a fashion illustrator in the worst way.

 

Once my mother got hold of a Simplicity pattern book, those huge ones that were in the sewing shops, and I had a ball copying the illustrations from that too.
My favorite illustrators were Antonio Lopez

 and Patrick Nagle

 

So every now and again I get the itch to do a fashion illustration. I can't remember the last time I bought a Vogue magazine but I looked up some Dior Fall couture images online and drew from the photos.  I liked the Givenchy Fall images too but they weren't catwalk photos... just the girls standing there like mannequines.

TGIF and take care!

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”  

-Socrates

 

drawing and writing

I've been doing alot of drawing and illustrating quotes and

 

phrases this week.

 

I have posted a few here!

 

Instagram has become a favorite of mine and I have to admit

I'm a bit addicted.

 

I am sure that will pass though, first it was Facebook,  then

 

Twitter, some Flickr, Tumblr, it

 

goes on and on and I am sure there will be something new.

This is how it looked like when I posted on Instagram, there are filters to modify the way it appears.
This is a filter I like and use often.

 Its amazing how things just keep on changing.

 

     

 

 I find that I get excited and exhausted by it all.

I try to keep up but its impossible. LOL!

 

Well I am off to the art store, I have this sudden

design to make a book.

I have the thread for binding, etc. I need paper

 and a few other things to make it happen.

I found a good video

 

on YouTube and will try it out.

 

 

I may or may not post what I create,

 LOL, it depends on how good it comes out.

 

Happy Saturday:)

 

 

Quotes and more quotes

I've been using this journal book for sometime now

with micron and gouache. Here are some quotes with just the pen.

I had alot of fun with this one

 

I just love this quote

 

I hope everyone enjoys the rest of the week. TGIT

 

Be good to yourself,

 



Watercolor Journaling

gouache and micron

I just started a new watercolor journal after painting

on these loose bits of paper recently. 

Last winter I found large sheets of w/c paper that I had

and I trimmed them all out and have been working away on them.

The jounral I've just started is a custom made sketch book

 that is wonderful and has some great paper:)

 I am going to  have to learn to start making and

binding my own sketchbooks, haha! I wish.

I joke, but actually I really ought to try that.

I'll get started on a YouTube search soon!

Have a Happy Tuesday:)

 

Creative Everyday CHALLENGES

I'm involved with two challenges now, one it Tracy Bunkers' and the other is Creative Everyday . So I'm doing my best with my full time job and being a mama... but I STRIVE to do something creative as often as I can! Will try to do this every day! Today I am working on getting things together for a small craft fair that I'm participating in next week in SeaCliff, NY. I am focusing on quotes that I love and it makes it fun and less stressful that trying to get full blown painting done. Frankly I like to sell stuff but its the actual painting and de-stressing that does it for me! It's my therapy for sure. These are some small frames that I got for a dollar at a tag sale that I'm upcycling:)

It's been a busy April!

Things have been pretty busy in March and April. Aside from that pesky day job, I am trying to stretch out more creatively. I'm doing alot more drawing/painting and I started teaching a graphic illustraction class at RedBow. I am so grateful for the opportunity. I am learning alot about myself, the kids and teaching too:)) I was also lucky enough to lead the nesting doll workshop as well! How cool!! Another workshop is on the brain and I just need to organize that a little more. I need to do this quickly... We'll be advertising that class soon. Most likely it'll be an altered book workshop. Below are photos from the graphic illustration class! We had alot of fun making these prints. So much so, I want to do a three or four day workshop on Non-press printing. I think that would be so much fun!

Sketching and Art Journaling

I can't believe its almost the end of January! And I last post in November. I have to get back to posting! I always say I'll try and do stuff and then I don't do it. But I am not going to get discouraged and I am going to just do my best. I got a new Moleskine and it took me like three weeks to put a pen to it because it was so new and clean and perfect.

Oh, the precious-ness...haha! well I got to sketching in it last night, and now it's old news ;) I got a nice floral arrangement at church on Sunday and I had so much fun painting and drawing the flowers. I kept them so long they are starting to stink, like dying flowers do. It's probably the green foam actually. I enjoy using the micron pens. Black and white drawings appeal to me. I love them and then on the other hand I am wondering what they would look like in full color or even just a little hint of color.

Then I painted the arrangement with watercolor too.

I've also been busy journalling at class and I am embracing collage more and more. I enjoy it and am more relaxed with it. I am keeping busy with that class and selling cards at the local gift shop. We'll see what comes of that. I'll have to post those cards soon.

here is a sketch of our hall upstairs. We have a little bench and got comfy and started drawing that door, isn't it a great door? This house is so old...1861!

and of course some fashion drawings my first love. When I was about 13 or 14 my mother brought home a pattern catalog (like Butterick or Simplicity) and a copied all the illustrations in that book, I had so much fun. Then when I got a little older I loved looking at Vogue or Mademoiselle and drawing off the photos and advertisements from those magazines.

I love doing the small little fast renderings too at the bottom. I havent' done this in such a long time, what a great exercise!!

Drawings

I have done some drawings that I scanned the other day. I wanted to post them up to get them "out there" and not hidden in my sketch book. I think they are really cute. I feel like I should give them names...? I spent some time coloring the second, sunflowery one on Photoshop the other night. I'll have to post that one soon, as well. I love drawing in black and white.