Woody Chalkboard Table

This is such a cute table!  Get it here.

My Work: Essentially Ellington

Jazz at the Lincoln Center presents Essentially Ellington

Last month we were presented with an opportunity to design the posters for this event.  My designs didn’t get chosen but it doesn’t matter because I’m proud of my work and it made me realize that I have someone really important to me who supports and believes in me : )

Design #1 (the blank white spaces indicates where the school and judge names are supposed to go) 

Design #2

Design #3

Design #4

 

These are just drafts that I drew by hand.  There are a lot of changes that I want to make and hopefully I’ll get to finalize these in the Summer when I have time! In case anyone was wondering … we were required to have the black silhouette in that size and location …

Etsy Finds: Food Jewelry

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Coffee n Donuts to go

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Miso Soup Necklace

 Both of these can be found at minimania via Etsy!

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Big Sprinkles ring

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Crochet Double Scoop Icecream

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Cherry Cake Ring … If i had this on my finger and if it wasn’t cherries I think I’d gain 20 pounds

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Grande Mocha Latte Necklace … check out their other ones too … there were too many cute ones I wasn’t sure which ones to include!

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Lastly … a Pumpkin Pie Charm … to show my love for it!

Almost Lover

What do you think?

Where’s Waldo?

I have a really big urge to buy a “Where’s Wally” book … what is his real name … Waldo or Wally?

Artist of the day: Rod Hunt

Came across Rod Hunt’s work as I was looking for inspiration for my next project … I don’t ususally like work like this but thought that my fabulous brother would like this so … here you go! 

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Angrybot

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Change the World 9 to 5

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Robots and Girls

You can also purchase these prints at Thumbtack Press

Etsy Finds: Strange Creatures

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Carlos the Luchador is a strang pillow monster available here!

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Dino … loving how unique he is … haha

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Cheeky Monkey!

How to Make Books

For Christmas I received ‘How to Make Books by Esther K. Smith’ … I love this book and I can’t wait to make some of them in my free time!

 Here’s a beautifully made Mini Tag Book … I want! I want! I want! But I must not waste money. 

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My Work: From High School

 

Mixed media piece on the left based on items I found off the street

The many faces of my beautiful mom

One of my many sketchbooks

Things I want to do over summer …

1. Spend time with my family
2. Go to my secret place and let the feelings overwhelm me
3. Make my own canvas bag and decorate with drawings of cameras
4. Buy materials to make my own jewelry
5. Art Jamming: Create a painting based on the things I’ve collected
6. Learn how to bake a cake that doesn’t fall apart
7. Visit Taipei, Africa or some remote island
8. Buy Page One (or at least stay in there forever)
9. Watch the sunset
10. Fall in love ♥

Etsy Finds: Click Click Snap Snap

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The Lg Vintage Camera – Kodak Brownie Hawkeye: Flash Model … is absolutely stunning

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This is the “Polaroid Memory Breaks my Heart” necklace … it’s hand drawn and unbelievably cute.

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Lunastrella Instant Camera Print

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Camera Camera Case

Artist of the Day: Marilyn Minter

Marilyn Minter 

Yesterday I had the wonderful opportunity to attended a lecture by Marilyn Minter.  She talked us through her career, starting with the very first photographs she took of her mother and how her work has developed over the years. 

The subject matter of her paintings are familiar to all but she expresses them in  ways that we normally try to avoid.  “It’s a real thing … peoples feet do get dirty even if they are in really expensive shoes and no one really makes an image of that” … through her art she is telling ‘her truth’ by showing what goes wrong rather than the highly touched up images that we see today. 

Here are images of some of her work … (can you tell which ones are paintings and which are photographs?)

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Guess who this is …

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I really love this painting … there’s something about it that touches my heart

♥

I realized that there aren’t many images of her work online … I really liked her 100 food porn series and the work that she does on hardcore pornography especially because she was the first female artist to ever use this subject matter.

“If you have something to say … it will be heard.  You might be dead but it will be heard” — Marilyn Minter

Time for a Raise

Time for a Raise – Alvin Aronson

“This time piece fades through its 24 hour cycle with a series of digital LED inspired bas-reliefs. The white on white color scheme seems to reinforce the idea that time may not actually exist…”

via VVork

My Work: Personal Mark

Here’s something I designed for my Typography and Visual Design class.  It is a personal mark created for a girl in my class …

Etsy Finds: Rad Shades!

 How awesome are these?  I am not ‘cool’ enough for these but for those who are … get them here!