No Standing Anytime & Puppy Gamines

Holidays, already here! Halloween I spent hiding, may do the same for Thanksgiving...

some updated work. First the No Standing Anytime work is developing :

and the puppy gamine series as well...I still really don't know what to call it... we'll see.

Twilight

I'm excited about all the hype around Twilight, I am such a sucker for vampire films. I'm currently trying to select which bg color I like best because I'd like to include these in my next portrait mailout.

I'm leaning towards the dusty rose.

Mailbox

Received this in the email box.. can't read it... don't know Portuguese. F%^k.

" quanto Gamoor marvilhoso, gostaria de reseber informativos de illustraes e moda"

Halp!

"Where the Girls Are"

Recently featured in a great little blog.. they have a small thumbnail with a link to my site.. it makes me blush to be mentioned with Marguerite Sauvage & Garance Doré... two of my favorites fashion illustrators. Also, very happy to see Fawn Gehweiler and Keren Richter.

An honor! Unfortunately, many of those who profess to love me don't think so. *sigh*

Click here to go to because you love me

Animation study: Carlos D.

These were a grouping of some poses I had sketched while watchign Carlos D. at an Interpol show. Interesting study. I don't know why I waited so long to post, this is a few years old...oh well, animation is timeless.

NoHo NY Artwalk

One panel of illustration prints from the "No Standing Anytime" series is in the NoHo NY Artwalk (curated by Harriet Fields) from April 16- 30. It's in the CornerShop Cafe, at Broadway & Bleecker Streets, across the street from my old apartment!

Not to sound cocky (not at ALL) but I think you'll be able to pick my piece out. ;0) ( I mean, everyone did abstract modernism or modern abstractism, as per usual here in NYC)

29th Street Series

So, time to post and talk about new stuff.I am so excited about this particular project!

We had taken an amazing apartment on West 29th Street in NYC. I LOVED that apartment so much. The neighborhood, however, took a while to warm up to. My husband and I had just moved from the apartment we lived in on Broadway at Bleecker, a hugely fun, stylish, beautiful people area and I was always somewhere inside a store. It was 2 blks north of SoHo. I was spoiled rotten for real estate, and measured all of NYC against downtown living.

When we came to the garment district/penn station.. I was simultaneously heartbroken and grossed out... I'd always felt it was one of the uglier areas of the city with its tall, imposing gray buildings, oily street water and pigeon crap everywhere. The people-watching near Penn Station was abysmal.Really, it wasn't, but I LIKED drawing leggy good life model types and fashionistas--- It was so hard to focus on anyone when everyone looked so...ordinary.

That was me initially.

After living there for over 6 years, I was wrong about the neighborhood's character. Oh, it's still ugly, hard and full of charmless chain restaurants. The people move like swarming ants and overall everyone is pretty pissed off/anxious/focused elsewhere (unless it is either a tourist, or it's after 7 pm)).

However, this was life, pure and simple, in New York. Living reality is more interesting than (most) fantasies, and that includes drawn figures.

Anyhow, here are a few of my observations, enjoy. I will post as many as I can, with their stories as often as I can.



xo
Su

LE VENTREI think this gentleman must have lived in the neighborhood because I saw him often, walking down 29th street, usually to pick up food. I always thought that he looked like he was in the middle of watching tv and going to the kitchen for a snack.

Maybe he was...?

FOX NEEDS HELP

Normally, I wouldn't name a drawing something so...objectifying. But I watched THREE different men run across 8th avenue to offer help her with her bags.

She turned them all down.


MADAME Du CAPI noticed this lady walking very slowly on the sidewalk, with her cane. There was something aristocratic about the way she walked (or she may have had a stiff back, I don't know these things...) I was wild about the fact that she threw a Yankees cap on top of her turban.

Weirdly enough, the feedback I get on this illustration is that she makes people feel sad. Then they usually mention that they need to call their grandmothers.

Update Feb 2009

I've been pretty bad about updating stuff here because it's been busy, but I'm hoping to have the studio blog back up and running soon. I will be posting new work in progress here through the rest of february.

My apologies and sincere thanks for your patience, Iwill not let you down!