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Here are some celebrity portraits I’m working on. They’re not finished. I have to add the Yankees symbol to Madonna’s jersey and decide if I will color them or not. When I was younger I used to dream of doing the Rollingstone contents page but now I never do celebrity art. I just thought this would be fun to do. I chose Amy Winehouse cause I thought it would be funny to add junk into her beehive. I put in a crack pipe, cigarettes, and other garbage. I did Madonna in A-Rod’s jersey, and Judd Apatow who I think is a total genius from Freaks and Geeks to Superbad (hence my Michael Cera portrait), in a superlative yearbook page as “class clown”, “most likely to succeed”, and “most reliable”. I can’t wait to see Pineapple Express starring my celebrity crush James Franco. Anyway, so this is totally diverging from prints and pretty illos but I just needed a break.

Color by COLOURlovers

I feel inspired by this Mad Baker macaron color palette so I made a little apparel collection that matches:

1. Chanel pink polish
2. Marc Jacobs pink sunglasses
3. Rebecca Taylor pink top
4. Barney’s cashmere knit dress
5. Built By Wendy dress

I just had the greatest weekend ever! I went out for dinner with Dave on Friday and saw Werner Herzog’s fantastic new documentary. Then went up to Nikki’s for a really fun Sat-Sun evening with my best friends of over 17 years (we truly know everything about each other)! Then got back to Brooklyn and went for a beautiful bike ride/picnic with Dave and watched fireflies, swallows, and clouds in the park while talking about quantum mechanics and the difference of opinion in the scientific community about what it is.

Anyway, check out Zillion:
Coolhunting found a really cool company that make modern clothing using the traditional patterns of Japanese kimonos, Tokyo-based French designer David Guarino’s line Zillion reinvents the fabric by making caps, belts, shoelaces, hoodies and other modern staples out of the delicate material.
Here’s an interview with the maker from Pingmag. Here’s a link to Zillion’s site where you will see a list of shops that carry the goods including Rare Device.

Hello Maquette friends,

I hope everyone has a lovely weekend planned. I’m going to a new Werner Herzog film: Encounters at the End of the World, Fri. night with my husband and then off to R.I for a girl’s weekend with my dearest friends.

I got the new Lucky Magazine so I decided to draw some girls standing around in outfits. I also made this new abstract line drawing and then gave it x’mas colors. I’m working on some holiday stuff now, thought I’d share something.

Artist Dallas Shaw who I’ve posted about here, just wrote to inform me that she has started a new blog called Dilly Dallas. So you must check it out to see what art and design she’s got up her sleeves. She’s always working on new and exciting projects so tune in. Also, take the time to peruse her site, she has everything from drawings on vintage wallpaper to notecards. Congrats Dallas!
Have a great weekend.

I love this “you are beautiful” project. I fist saw it on one of my favorite blogs happy cavalier.

For something ugly…but really cool. Look at these super close-ups on bug’s faces. Yes, I realize this post is going on all sorts of tangents but that’s how my mind is feeling today.

I’m feeling un-beautiful lately, tired, and over worked. There is so much I want to do and I feel a time pressure for everything. I want to have a thriving career in illustration, print and surface pattern design. Plus I want to maintain this blog, jog 5 days a week, and stay a good and enthusiastic teacher, wife, and friend. Lately all I want to do are abstract drawings. I just went to the Louise Bourgeois show at the Guggenheim and the form and lines of her sculptures are so inspiring.

I also want to enjoy the summer and go for picnics with my husband but I keep thinking of all the things I should be doing, all the mailings, all the new patterns, cards, the new illustrations, the wedding invitations I have to start designing, following up with companies from Surtex….I’m in a bit of head spinning overload mode and I have ideas for little art books I want to make and big oil paintings and pastel drawings. I just want to stop time for a while and lay under a tree and then go work in a huge sunny studio and then resume regular time when I’ve accomplished everything I want to do. Has anyone else had this overwhelmed feeling? Sorry for the purge, I just need to regroup.

On a funny note, I got a kick out of the new movie my husband ordered from Netflicks. Half the time when a dvd arrives we’ve forgotten who had it on their queue but this time I knew it was his. Here’s the title and description:
Solarbabies:
“This post apocalyptic adventure follows a group of imprisoned, skateball-playing youths (including Jason Patric, Lukas Haas, and Jami Gertz) who find an orb with prophetic powers. When the orb is stolen, the kids make a daring escape to find it and win their freedom from a fascist regime. Tracked by the ruthless general Grock (Richard Jordan), the kids skate their way through wastelands in search of the orb and a way to overthrow the regime.” (1986)

No this is not a joke, it’s a real movie and we’re probably going to watch it.