Venice Coffee Break

I went sketching with a friend in at a Venice coffee shop.
Interesting people abound...

The couple I drew was pretty much making out the whole time.. and I guess they noticed I was drawing them & they asked to see the sketch when they left. I apologized for my rusty-ness.
"You look smitten!" laughed the guy to the girl.

Untitled

Untitled
Oil on panel
24'' x 34''

I just realized that I finished this painting well over a year ago and never posted it. It took me a long time to finish- the concept of the floor was a daunting one.

I think it may well be one of my favorite things I have ever painted until now. There are of course improvements that could be made. I don't think an artist ever feels anything they do is perfect, but it captures my feeling about a place, and a moment, and a time in my life so well. Looking at it again I am taken back to that evening.

Details:

Seen through my lens recently

A shoot with my friend Lauren, a family trip to Ireland, LA Adventures, and an unfailingly breath-taking Lone Pine camping trip.

Chipwrecked

One of the shots I lit on Alvin & The Chipmunks 3: Chipwrecked is on R&H's homepage.

Merci

A simple Christmas thank you note.

Happy Holidays!

This is a gouache painting I did for my sister as a Christmas present.
Happy holidays & best wishes for the coming year!

Animated

Film

Hi Hi! Sorry so slow.. Alvin3 is wrapping up this month.

I took some pictures a few weekends ago on my Seagull 4A TLR Medium-format camera. It's such a beautiful piece of machinery. The swirly sketchy bokeh is just gorgeous. I think I'm finally starting to get the feel for the camera- I still need to work on getting my film out without getting light leaks. Some of them are pretty, some not. One of the rolls had been sitting in a drawer for about a year (since last Christmas!) so I'm not surprised that some of those are a little bright. I also finally figured out how to get good results out of my flatbed film scanner.

Also.. it was my birthday. (26!) And I made this dress. And danced in it.

Chipwrecked

Alvin 3 trailer is out with like 6 of my shots in it. (Chipettes saying "We're having dinner with the Captain?"......" This is so not fair!", Alvin speed skating in oil, and the classic "Alviiiiiiin!!" shot.)



Sorry no art lately... I've been doing stuff, just not scanning it. And running, and climbing, and watching Mad Men.

Sketchbook

8.18.2011
Went to Chicago to see my sister graduate from Northwestern. I sketched some people on the 'El' while I was riding to the Art Institute and a Cubs game at Wrigley Field. Such interesting folks!

7.4.2011
Spent a lovely 4th of July weekend on, in & around Ruth Lake in Northern California surrounded by wonderful people. This is a sketch of my friend Eric getting ready to go out on his sailboat, The Laser.

Happy Father's Day!

Father's Day card for my dad this year.
Yes... that's me on the fence. The one with the bowl cut. Snazzy... I know.
Decidedly unhappy with the color & inking. My gouache colorset I keep at home is kinda crappy- everything looks more like watercolors then gouache & I only had the .8 Micron pen to work with. Everything else was out of ink. */end whine*

The smell of linseed oil

Starting something new!

Figure

Some stuff from the last two 'Gallery Girls' Late Night Figure Salons. Been a bit unsatisfied with my drawings lately.. must be rusty from so much time with a mouse and so little with a pencil.
Last week of 'Mr. Popper's Penguins...

Ice, Ice, Baby

Hi there!
What? No.. I'm still here. News you say? Well.. sure!

Hop is officially, jubilantly, and finally done! It comes out April 1st- go see it!

After Hop wrapped my boyfriend and I escaped to South America for vacation and spent two weeks in Peru having our minds boggled by unbelievably giant spiders in the rainforest, sleeping under mosquito netting, hiking 4 days to Machu Picchu, eating guinea pig, and buying lots of alpaca scarves. Pictures... soon. Soonish. (I say soonish because there's a lot of them to sort through. Like.. thousands. Hey, it was a two week trip!)



Next up: Mr. Popper's Penguins starring Jim Carrey and.. lots of penguins. Also normal working hours for a bit. Hopefully. That means drawing & stuff. Supposedly.

Dr. Sketchy's Ant-Art School

Before Christmas I went to a meeting of 'Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School'. Dr. Sketchy's is a gathering for artists who like to figure draw that has branches all across the country. It's quite a different atmosphere from the standard figure drawing fare- even in LA. A few friends & I showed up not knowing what we were in for, but within 15 minutes I found myself welcomed enthusiastically with a cup of hot apple cider & whiskey seated in an amazing outdoor garden behind someone's house in Burbank drawing a beautiful girl posing trapeze-like on hanging circus silks.

I really look forward to going to another meeting- they're held once a month in rotating locations.