Preview! : John Hughes Tribute Show at Gallery 1988 (in LA)

2011 is off to a great start and I have some new work I'm going to post very soon!!

My goals for 2011 didn't quite solidify until a few weeks in. I recently found and have chosen a path that will lead me into 2012. So 2011 is all about work-work-work and I couldn't be happier.

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Next month I'm going to be in a group show honoring John Hughes at Gallery 1988 (in LA). I'll post all the info about the show once it's released but for now I wanted to give you a quick preview. This was the first piece I 'documented' through out my creative process.

The art show is honoring John Hughes and all his iconic films(such as Pretty in Pink,Weird Science, Home Alone, Ferris Beuller's Day Off and the Breakfast Club). For the show I decided to do a portrait of the lovely Molly Ringwald.

I wanted to incorporate some ink in this piece so once I laid down my red/pink wash, I found a good photo of her gorgeous face, pulled out my black pens and got to work. I tend to be really selective about the images I use as a reference and take into consideration everything from the angle of the eyes, the lighting to whether or not it's a personal challenge for me (to try to recreate). I love a good challenge. For me, portraits are defiantly a personal challenge and can be a bit terrifying. I can barely breath when I'm fist getting started. When I love the wash (of color) I'm working with I never take the placement of the face/image (on top of the wash) into consideration. It's purely luck when the ink wash flows with the face/image. I hate planning out a piece. I love watching it evolve as I go along.

I'll post the completed piece in the next week or so, so stay tuned!

Christmas Gifts!

 
I hope you and yours had a most marvvvelous ou-liday! I did and this year I made my dearest friends Christmas gifts. I love giving unexpected, funny, memorable and personal gifts. My attempt to recreate their beauty was thE hardest drawing challenge I'm ever attempted! 
1)Heather Goldberg is a Jewelry/womenswear designer/artist and loves thug rap as much as I do. Checkout her beautifuuul jewelry here!!
2)Regina Yazdi is one of my favorite illustrators and,like me, was born with a pencil in her hand. Her work bembodies the past and the future of fashion illustration. I just realized how hard/fun it is to draw fellow illustrators. 
3)Theo Moysis is a fresh faced fashion designer living in New York and is currently designing at Tommy (the new hipper subdivision of Tommy Hilfiger). Like me, he loves to hunt down/share new music. 

Part 2 + Music

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Like this one, I have one too many pieces in stage two. I can be sooo indecisive so for me, finishing up a piece is the hardest part!

 

..This is was 'Part 1' (from an earlier post)..

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Music I'm lovin/blasting.
I love the two Digitalism tracks!..enjoy:)


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Hope you had a yummy Thanksgiving!

Festive Quick Sketches

Along with my obsession with black and white cinema of the 1930's and 40's I also love contemporary and 'old' LA film noir short stories and film. Raymond Chandler is novelist and screenwriter whose stylistic writings greatly influence the film noir genre. That's why any girl with good sense would chose to hang with him on a deserted island...for sure. 

 These are just some quick sketches/illustrations straight out of my sketchbook from this past week. When I'm not at my desk (working on my watercolor pieces) I love playing with my black pen in my sketchbook.

It's the week of Halloween!

                                         I have nooo idea what I'm gonna be for Halloween...

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Music!

Tracks I'm loving at the moment..

Vanity by Melee

Celph Titled & Buckwild feat. Apathy, Ryu, and Esoteric - Swashbuckling by peecee1978

Lcd Soundsystem -Home (Loving Good Remix)

Lemâitre-Come Again(exclusive)

Lady Lazy Sunday + Music Picks

.Lady Lazy Sunday.

-ball point pen quick sketch-

Martina Topley Bird- Poison (Van She Tech Remix)

     Tooney- Numbing Thoughts

Fingers of Steel (Lazy Flow Remix) by sebastien-tellier

Jay-Z vs Beats International ft Professor Green– Can I Get A Fuck You (Sully Mashup)

Alexis Jordan-Happiness

Alphabet Boys (Prod By Kanye West)-Consequence

StardonE-CT

Quick Sketches

 Although I love creating large scale pieces, about 75% of my drawings are resting in my sketchbook/s. I'm going to start to post my 'quick quick sketches' as often as I can/create them. I love to sketch the lovely ladies that I see (on the web) that are photographed coming out of fashion shows and hanging out on their city streets. 

                 

 
Below are just some fun quick sketches of lil ladies stretching/posing out of my sketchbook...

 

More are on the way!

Stay tuned!

On Heavy Rotation

.Tombow pen and highlighter quick sketch.

I haven't always favored the instrumental/ambient genera but more and more I'm finding artists that have defiantly caught my attention. I can't get enough of Star Slinger, Tobacco and Lemaitre mixes.

Lemâitre – Primeval Atom

Star Slinger- Alpine-Icypoles (Star Slinger remix)

Star Slinger x Teams- Hold Me

Tobacco- New Juices From The Hot Tub Freaks

Teen Daze x Dream Cop- Beach City,I Know Carol

Lorn-Cherry Tree

Lemaitre-Nishio