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

September 23, 2007 4 Comments

my crafty little sewing project

Takashi Iwasaki found on nebo peklo blog via studiorama blog

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)

September 20, 2007 2 Comments

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 (womanâ€™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.

Close-up on my illustration of Skinny & Rich jeans from my last post

September 19, 2007 2 Comments

I got a bunch of emails about my high waisted jeans post. Some people wanted to see my little drawing more clearly. So here it is all by its lonesome. I told stylehive about the post and they liked it enough to add me to their directory! Yippee! On another note, my dancer friend who posed for my recent drawing and painting is on the cover of Fit Yoga!

A little illustration for high waisted jeans (Rich & Skinny) & high waisted heros via stylehive

September 18, 2007 No Comments

The marvelous blog at stylehive did a great feature on high waisted heros a while back. I loved the images they chose so I sampled a few and added my favorite of the h.w jeans available on the market today. They’re Rich & Skinny (I’m not), available on Shopbop.Â They’re a pretty penny so I’ll just have to think about them lovingly. For their cost I could live in Bali for 5-7 years.

For some great 70’s reference, I found a site that has posters, fashion and 70’s galore. If you are looking for a photo of a boy in gold lame on roller skates doing hola hoop this is the place to look.

Some of my recent work: drawing, painting, and photo

September 17, 2007 5 Comments

About a month ago I did a photo shoot with a modern dancer friend of mine. She was kind enough to let me wrap string around all of her joints and take her portrait as reference for the drawing and painting above.

I’m lucky to have friends like her. Thankfully she won’t ask me to return the favor like back in art school when the subject of your work all of a sudden comes a calling wanting you to run half naked through the snow in the dead of winter for their film final.

I prefer the view from behind the camera, canvas, and paper. It can be fun to be the subject once in a while, though I prefer something a little less explicit than my aforementioned (if slightly exaggerated) anecdote.

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

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

Close-up on my illustration of Skinny & Rich jeans from my last post

A little illustration for high waisted jeans (Rich & Skinny) & high waisted heros via stylehive

Some of my recent work: drawing, painting, and photo

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