Monday, February 28, 2011

Sightseeing with Margie

Botanical tiles
Orange treeAgave Pots
Urns
San Miguel de Allende-Guanajuato
La Aurora Gallery-San Miguel de Allende
Downtown Queretaro
Posada Carmina
Cobble stones
Mr. Handsome
Some of the beautiful things I saw while sightseeing with Margie.
She'll be going back home to the snow very early tomorrow morning.
I will miss her so much! It was such a special privilege to get to spend time with her.
She is the sweetest, kindest & most generous soul I've encountered.

EDITORIAL: Gwen Lu in (Malaysia) Glam Magazine, March 2011


This is Part I (re-edited) of a 22-page story in (Malaysia) Glam Magazine, March 2011.

Model: Gwen Lu (Major)
Editorial: Spring '11
Magazine: (Malaysia) Glam Magazine, March 2011
Photographer: Bustaman Mokhtar
Stylist: Cheah Wei Chun
Hair: Olivia Ooi
Makeup: Sheng Saw

Source: ClanHouseOnline.com

Sunday, February 27, 2011

EDITORIAL: Wang Xiao in Harper's Bazaar Russia, February 2011

El Charco del Ingenio

Rock egg
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After a morning visit to the botanical garden
we came home to work on a crochet covered rock collaboration
Margie and I are doing a for a summer show at Bookhou in Toronto, Canada.
We were very inspired by what we saw at the reserve.

Too Matchy-Matchy?

Hi all, this is my posting today over on The Sketchbook Challenge blog.

I love to bring opposites into play in my work when things get a little too copacetic. I'm always drawn to analogous color schemes, but by the time I get everything looking all happy and cooperative, I'm bored stiff with the composition. That's when it's time to liven things up by going off the rails and adding something totally unexpected.


A good example is the two-page spread above. Everything was getting along too well, not to mention that I really disliked the page on the left.

After puttering around with some tissue and paints, I created a highly contrasting sheet of paper, which I then adhered onto the offending page with rubber cement.


Now the spread has more character.

I extended my collaged sheet over onto the right-hand page a tad, just to marry them a little more. They are certainly opposites- a cool blue/green and a warm russet/orange- but they also relate somewhat in that they were both heavily layered with the same paint colors and using the same stamping tool. I have no doubt that later they will call for something more dramatic to bind them together, but for today, this spread is incomplete and will make a wonderful background for future imagery.

More "opposites" work in my sketchbook included both opposites in composition and in color.


Here, a heavily painted collage sheet (left) is paired with a paper towel remnant (right) that had been used to mop up green/blue paint. The piece on the left is created with unnatural colors in garish combinations (my favorite kind of mixed-media art to create, quite frankly!) while the piece on the right is almost pastoral and looks as if it could have been monoprinted directly from leaves taken from my backyard. Like the one above it, this spread is incomplete.


Color opposites find harmony in my sketchbooks... here, painted paper and hand-dyed fabrics that have been doodled on with Pentel Gel Fabric Pens.


Scraps of fabric previously used for experimentation are always welcome in my sketchbooks, too. Here, purple and yellow- opposites who famously don't usually work and play well together- share space without dominating one another.


More temperature opposites, turquoise and yellow, mirror each other from one side of the sketchbook to the other, the left one done with layers of paint while the right comprises layers of stacked journaling in yellow and turquoise india ink.

Saturday, February 26, 2011

EDITORIAL: Charlene Almarvez in Teen Vogue (Supplement) , March 2011

Model: Charlene Almarvez (Ford) & Others
Editorial: Unknown
Magazine: Teen Vogue (Supplement), March 2011
Photographer: Unknown
Stylist: Unknown

Source: Fashion Media Philippines

EXTRA: the Making of Givenchy Haute Couture, Spring/Summer 2011

Align Center
Models: Ming Xi (Ford), Hye Park (Trump), Liu Wen (Marilyn) & Ai Tominaga (Marilyn), Shu Pei (Next), Tao Okamoto (Ford), Sun FeiFei (Women), Jiang Xiao Yi (Silent), So Young Kang (Marilyn) & Du Juan (IMG)
Show: Givenchy Haute Couture, Spring/Summer 2011, Paris

Source: FataleFashion via Style++

Artful Birds

Numbers
Paint by Numbers Bird
Bird Tattoo Bird
Tattoo Bird
Love
Margie & I had a very birdie afternoon yesterday.
We both used the wren pattern from Abigail Glassenberg's new book
"The Artful Bird" published by Interweave.
I recycled my 2010 Linea Carta linen calendar to make my birdie.
Margie used a piece of turquoise cotton I had previously stamped
with one of my hand carved bird stamps and made the beaks with polymer clay.
We gave each of them our own twist & when they saw each other
they immediately fell in love ♥

Friday, February 25, 2011

EDITORIAL: Du Juan & Hyun Yi Lee in US Vogue, March 2011

Models: Du Juan (IMG) & Hyun Yi Lee (Silent)
Editorial: Sphere of Influence
Magazine: US Vogue, March 2011

For Du Juan (IMG):
Photographer: Craig McDean
Stylist: Marie-Amélie Sauvé
Hair: Eugene Souleiman
Makeup: Diane Kendal

For Hyun Yi Lee (Silent):
Photographer: Lachlan Bailey
Stylist: Laura Ferrara
Hair: Kevin Ryan
Makeup: Romy Souleimani

Source: Scanned by me/AMB

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Soaking up the Sun

Yellow
Botanical Platters
Media Naranja
Balcony with Cactus
Plants at Posada Carmina
Wall art
Margie & I enjoyed a gorgeous day at San Miguel de Allende, Guanjuato today.
Here are some of my shots of the day. I can't wait to see the photos she took!