Samantha Hahn

Dangly earrings & dangly chandeliers

Dangling earrings post

I love Doyle & Doyle, a stunning little shop with exquisite vintage and estate pieces. It’s a pretty penny but worth perusing for the sake of fantasy at the least. I particularly love the dangly earrings above. They’re so striking. I decided to make a little illustration for them.

I am totally blown away by labour of heart* blog. It’s a work of art in and of itself. While perusing it recently I came across the UK co. delusions of grandeur. They make these fabulous chandeliers and candelabras etc. I wish I could wear the Doyle & Doyle earrings and live in a house with a funky chandelier from delusions of grandeur. Ah….to dream.

delusions of grandeur

Jeremy Olsen and Shih Chieh Huang

Jeremy Olsen paintings

I love the way Jeremy Olsen paints strange and surreal worlds where the light is ominously glowing from within internal organ like structures. I could be looking inside something or from within it. I find his paintings luminous and captivating.

Artist Shih Chieh Huang does similiar work in 3D. Check out his site.

shih-Chieh-Huang-like-Jeremy Olsen
Also, if you know of any babies or kids that need fabulous clothing my favorite children’s clothing company is having a big sale this weekend (it’s my parent’s clothing co. my mom designs everything!). Here’s the flier.

My little fabric sewing collages and Takashi Iwasaki’s fabulous embroidered illustration

my crafty little sewing project
fabric-collage sewing

Takashi Iwasaki found on nebo peklo blog via studiorama blog
Takeshi Iwasaki

I had fun turning little fabric scraps into something. Making these canvases was like painting abstractly, only instead of pigment I used burlap, ribbon, textiles, toile, felt, origami paper and string and sewed it all onto 4X4 inch canvases that are 3 inches deep.

I made 5 of them. I am not so into even numbers or symmetry for that matter.
We have them up on our wall above our desks.

On nebo peklo (one of my favorite blogs out there) I fell in love with Takashi Iwasaki‘s embroidery. She found him on studiorama (a new blog to add to my list of favorites! I have to mention that it’s in Spanish which I don’t speak…but it’s so visually rich I can just absorb the content that way).

Figuring out: Francois Boucher & Charles Bargue (Academic figure drawing)

Figure-drawing-post-image
I love figure drawing from life (as opposed to photo reference) though I usually work from photo due to necessity.

Here are some masters that I admire for their technical chops: Francois Boucher (the man reaching out and the winged man) and Charles Bargue (woman’s face). They’re both well known for working in the French Academic style.

My drawings are on the second row, I work more by eye than with the formulaic aplomb of these skilled academics but I admire them nonetheless.

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