A Mod Weekender

Last weekend was a pretty good weekend for me, I attended Le Beat Bespoke weekender in London located at 229 in great portland street. If you are not familiar with the 60's Mod scene yet well, I will be surprised specially considering the fact that it is currently being splashed about for a more public audience. A good example being Liam Gallagher's new opening of the store Pretty Green.

Anyway I thought I would take a few photos on the last night to post up here of friends and a few other lovely looking people :)

I just cannot wait for it to happen all over again in Brighton in the Summertime!

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Hello Boys!

This is a little something I did the other day which I'm really happy with considering i barely ever do drawings of men (please click on the image to see more details). I thought I would post it up on here even though it has been on my Deviantart for a while now, it's just i haven't really posted anything on here for a while.

And since we are on the subject of drawings of men, I would like to share with you a Deviantart artist that i am extremely fond of. The only thing i know about this artist is he goes by the name of Lucjan and was born in 1988. He seems like the type of artist that likes to keep himself to himself and perhaps that also might be the reason why i get drawn to his images. It's the mystery and ambiguity; not just because of the artist himself but also what i feel gets portrayed in these beautiful drawings. 

 I like the almost unfinished quality; yet you can see all the thought that has gone into the drawings which is portrayed instinctively in the facial expressions and body language of his male characters. His placements of colour are interesting but still subtle enough to not over power what I can only assume are the messages of the images. 

Perhaps I am looking too deeply into the ideas of the drawings but since i know so little about this artist, it can be nice to form personal opinions of art you like, no?

Anyway if you would like to view more artwork by this artist, feel free to check out his deviantart or his online portfolio. 

Sister Gracie in Paris

(fineliner and watercolours, artwork I did for Sister Gracie a while back)

So, the video shot by Warren Guetta and edited by Margaux Lonnberg is finally up on youtube! However currently not on either of the blogs yet but I love the stark contrast of the dark filming and the simplicity of how it is filmed in a pretty parisian street. My God I'm so jealous!

Sister Gracie

So, my boyfriend is back from their first European tour (finally!). Apparently it went really well which is nice to hear; so well in fact everybody wants them back again ASAP. I was most jealous about Paris and specially since Sister Gracie finally got to meet Warren Guettn and get filmed by him. The film isn't on the internet but will be soon either on The Kooples Blog or on Margaux Lonnberg's Blog.

For now though there is this video that you can feast your eyes on. A compilation of Sister Gracie's own documentation from the tour. 

Enjoy.

Zoe Keramea

I'm really into geometric art of many types so when i ran across these images on the internet i was smitten! They are malleable paper sculptures by the wonderful athens-born Zoe Keramea. 

This set of images are of the Leopard Moth series.

Despite the fact that I hate insects (!)  I find the intricacy of the sculpted paper triangles beautiful and the use of a monotone colour palette just lets you focus on the shape and the form.

My next project at uni is about learning embellishment and embroidery which I'm really looking forward to. i really want to focus on geometric shapes and i'm not sure how yet, but will somehow wield these images into my research :)

I'd really like to play more with geometric collaging like in my 'Estelle' illustration in one of my previous posts, so look out for that :)

Light at the end of the tunnel.

As you can see this is the original drawing for my blog heading :), I did this illustration with creating a canvas print design in mind. I don't think i got it completely right and therefore won't use it for that reason. Then I decided i would draw two more similar images with different graphic floating shapes to create a triptych. That hasn't quite come into reality yet but we'll see....

well anyway my point is, i thought it might be nice to post it up here. Also i was extremely bored in one of my illustrator classes at uni the other day and did this in photoshop instead. :)

Beatrice Boyle

Ok, so if you haven't heard about the LCF fashion illustration graduate Beatrice Boyle yet, don't fret. I have a feeling we will be seeing a lot more of her, especially since miss Boyle has just done a t-shirt style capsule collection for Browns! She is one damn lucky girl, but looking at some of her images explains it all. Her idea is deconstruction and essentially she just takes glossy images of models and 'destroys' them by painting over them. I absolutely love the outcome though; the large, flat, vertical brushstrokes totally contrast the soft, supple, often erotic lines of the female figures. 

Her current exhibition is on now at John Princes Street, RHS Terrace, LCF, London. However if you're planning on going you have to be quick as it finishes on the 3rd of march, this Thursday! Personally my only chance to go is thursday but knowing what i'm like, i always plan to go to many exhibitions yet never get round to it, specially since i have a deadline for next week and a hell of a lot of work to get done. :(

So, i leave it to one of you to check it out for me! 

Open 10am to 5pm.

enjoy!