sorry for the hiatus. my father was just diagnosed with cancer and my world has been flipped upside down. i will be back soon. please have him in your thoughts
xo
Friday, December 26, 2008
Thom Yorke
Yay! Day after Christmas Merry!
How was all your Christmas-es?
Yesterday was an amazing time with the family.
This morning i woke up, sat down and painted a picture of Thom Yorke.
i promised my friend i would paint it for her brithday and her birthday passed,
and now i finally did it.
It's now my 3rd oil painting,
and with each picture, i've been trying to learn different techniques.
This one i tried to keep it really loose,
blind contoured on to the wood,
then painted within the lines, and re-outlined in oil pastel.
Hope you like it. :)
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
The Cherry Blossom Girl + Pandora
Merry Christmas Eve!!
Wowow! i can't believe it's here!
I'm going to spend the first part of it cleaning my destroyed studio.
Right now, i'm typing surrounded by multiple empty coffee cups, drawing references, candy, inks, colored pencils.
You name it.... i need to clean.
Well, i finished up my first magazine cover yesterday.
i'm really excited for you all to see it!
it's for a February issue of the magazine,
so of course the cover theme is my favorite art subject matter, "Love",
but instead of doing something ultra lovey dovey,
i decided to shoot for a feeling a little more abstract and harder to capture on paper...
i wanted to capture the feeling of "Intimacy".
i wanted the viewer to look at the picture and feel first of all that they were the only person in the world that mattered to the cover girl, and second, that you had known her your whole life...
whether or not i accomplished that remains to be seen. haha
Now, for the main subject matter of the post.
(sorry about the rambling; i slept in and now feel wired. hah)
The drawing today is a sketch i did of two great French bloggers Alix of Cherry Blossom Girl, and Louise of Pandora.
Alix's blog is named after one of my favorite Air Songs, and i've been meaning to draw her for a while now.
They did a photoshoot called "Les Nymphes" which you know with a title like that you can't go wrong,
but there was a picture of both Alix and Louise i had to draw.
Tried something a little different out on the sketch.
Hope you like it. Merry Eve of Christmas!
Monday, December 22, 2008
{merry christmas}
Wintry inspiration on these, the last softly falling snow days before Christmas . . . off for the rest of week for some much-anticipated time away, and wishing you holidays filled with laughter and warmth and someone to hold you close . . .Happy, happy holidays!
xo
{images: 1 -Homes & Gardens December 2008, photography by David Giles; 2 - Ludwig Design via desire to inspire; 3 - fashion in my eyes; 4 - Genevieve Wiseman via desire to inspire; 5- Marie Claire Maison via automatism; 6 - Country Living via The Inspired Room; 7 - Country Home; 8 - from an earlier post}
My Mom Made Me Do It
Ok, so, i know this is the 3rd Taylor Swift drawing i've posted on here,
but this one comes with a story.
When my mom saw the drawings i had already posted of her,
she said to me,
"Oh Danny, you know what? I have the perfect picture of Taylor Swift for you to draw."
i turned to her with a puzzled yet amused look on my face and said, " Oh yea?"
Taking my prompting she responded,
" Yes! When I was at Starbucks today, I saw her new album cover and it's perfect for you to draw. I mean, in the picture she's got 'Your Hair'. You know what I mean, like the hair you draw. You should draw it."
haha. Yes, so this was Saturday that she said this to me.
So i always "Honor my Father and my Mother"
and thus this post was born. :)
On another note,
I was contacted by Schnati from the great German blog Les Mads.
and she said they wanted to do a interview with me.
So it's up today on their site.
Click Here for the Les Mads Interview
Lastly, you may have noticed that there is a play button under the drawing up there.
Well, it's been a really long time since i've taken the time to sit down and write music,
but i really needed to, so i finally did this weekend,
and i composed a song for you all.
i've been wanting to write a soundtrack for my life and the moods i'm in.
This song represents the mood i was in this weekend.
I plan on making a short film edited to the music.
I hope you like it!
If you like the song and want to have my song, just right click the link below and then click "download linked file"
Download Song here
Sunday, December 21, 2008
New Year's eve look book+inspiration+ideas
I know we all wait for the upcoming new year's eve.Most of you haven't planned what to wear on new year's eve but I have good news for you.Just relax.You can look good in a night dress with right accessories and right shoes.Sequined dresses are hot!I adore whenever I see a gray or black sequined dress but if you dont want to shine or really less shine but look simple you can pick a black night dress with details of cuts.here are some inspiring party looks+pictures that might help you pick your look for the new year's eve.If you havent bought your anything to wear on new years eve you can check out your closet and find pieces that would work together.
as gray is the black,you can pick a gray dress like this one with black details.Its nice and simple.
SJP is so hot in chanel.she's inspiring for the beige+white silk night dress working it with sexy socks,hot handbag correlated with high heel shiney two-coloured shoes,simple shiney satin dress isnt killed with lots of accessories.
Phillip Lim Multicolored sequin dress ---you would shine in a dress like this
Catherine Malandrino Embroidered silk dress,less shiney simple detailed dress would work great with a bold coloured pair of shoes
zac posen runway.What you can steal from the look is the pink dress+black accessories combination.from socks to necklace its all black.
christian loubotin
best tip: wear them when its all over black on you and the only different colour than black should be your shoes
Chloe Cross front pumps...Vibrant green would rock your look!
black dresses are hot!
all in black is the unmistakeable look
as gray is the black,you can pick a gray dress like this one with black details.Its nice and simple.
SJP is so hot in chanel.she's inspiring for the beige+white silk night dress working it with sexy socks,hot handbag correlated with high heel shiney two-coloured shoes,simple shiney satin dress isnt killed with lots of accessories.
Phillip Lim Multicolored sequin dress ---you would shine in a dress like this
Catherine Malandrino Embroidered silk dress,less shiney simple detailed dress would work great with a bold coloured pair of shoes
zac posen runway.What you can steal from the look is the pink dress+black accessories combination.from socks to necklace its all black.
christian loubotin
best tip: wear them when its all over black on you and the only different colour than black should be your shoes
Chloe Cross front pumps...Vibrant green would rock your look!
black dresses are hot!
all in black is the unmistakeable look
