Don’t have a smartphone, but do have a nice camera – so…fake instagram snaps of course!
Excited about my Winsor and Newton paints – 1million x better than the cheapies. Not sure how I ended up with a brown lamp on a green table in front of a blue-and-pink stripe wall. Obviously having some color scheme issues…
I would love to say that I have spent hours and hours learning how to paint with my new lovely paints (I finally tired of my cheap $10 set of tubes and bought a little compact set of real, lovely paints) but alas, I haven’t spent any time at all. So, here I revert to the old comfortable form of pencil sketching. This one was done long ago (a year or two ago…) on a breezy day on a lawn chair overlooking the beach during vacation. I spied it unfinished in my sketchbook the other day, but I like it how it is. I have absolutely no recollection what magazine or designer this dress is from, only that I was inspired by the shiny silver buttons and thick cream fabric. And the assymetrical front.
Sorry about that little smudge in the middle of her skirt – I’m afraid our home-office printer is a little gummed up…and in the first place, not exactly invented as a high-quality scanner…
Doctored up this simple line drawing in Photoshop. A J. Crew model. Nerdy-chic?
Pretty excited to have discovered how to make animated gifs in Photoshop. It’s so easy and so fun! It’s also a great way to waste away an afternoon playing around…
I learned art through sketching – I took some great classes in high school. So when I draw I see in black and white – in terms of darks and lights, and gradations of light and shadow. Inevitably then, I’m much happier with my drawings in this stage: the black-and-white stage! Here I’ve done a pencil sketch and then a pen outline of a glam printed floppy. I really like the cleanness of the drawing at this stage, but, it’s just begging to have color put to it! We’ll see what happens…
I’ve been attempting watercolor for about a month now. I’m much better at the actual sketching than the use of color, but I am trying to improve! I was thinking what I might pair this Vince sweater (on pre-sale at Nordstrom!) with…maybe some dark skinnies and cool gray ankle boots for fall. Voila!
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Michael Kors Fall 2012 is chock full of gorgeous colors and fabrics. Among my favorite aspects are the deep reds and cozy knits (oversized, fur-collared, and blanket-style!)
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Another look from Prabal Gurung’s pre-fall line.
I love drawing things I would never or could never wear – it’s the closest thing to it. I spied Georgia May Jagger wearing a flapper-style headband in April’s Harper’s Bazaar, part of a pictorial inspired by the film “The Artist.” Here I added one of my favorite things: thin b&w stripes, in the form of a swing top (Or swing dress? Could go either way.)
Inspired by Emma Stone’s character in “The Help,” who wore an uncharacteristic look for her with tight corkscrew curls and retro glasses that I had to capture. I thought it was pretty adorable, but I can’t imagine all the time she must have had to spend in the makeup trailer for those curls…
I doubt that this Kindle Fire app for sketching is great for creating master works of art (at least for me, drawing with my thick, stubby, sometimes-calloused (classical piano) fingers on a touch-screen does not produce fantastic results) but it is fun for keeping your creative juices flowing. It’s less conspicuous than pulling out pencil and pad, and can actually flesh out ideas that I’ll later want to sketch. Plus it’s just kind of entertaining.
Inspired by a scene in the movie “Morning Glory.” In the movie, Rachel McAdams wears this great chiffon-ey dress towards the end, and ends up running through the street with her hair streaming straight out behind her. The fact that this is the first really fashionable thing she wears in the movie, after a wardrobe full of blah work attire (in which, incidentally, she still looks great) makes it maybe a little more impressive than it otherwise would be, but the whole tone/cut/shape and fabric looked great on her. She’s also wearing a sort of bone-colored shrug over it.
As fall looms closer, the dilemma for me is always – continue stocking up on cute beach-wear (which, in my less-than-tropical-climate is a bit ridiculous in the first place) or start saving for the budget-busting fall pieces you know you’re going to want in a matter of weeks. For now I’m trying to stay away from fancy suits and pretty woven beach bags…
I am loving all the pretty prints and cool silhouettes in Prabal Gurung’s pre-fall line. In this illustration I pulled them from the runway and injected some street-style. Just add cobblestoned New York streets.
A recent portrait of an interior designer.
