Some of you may have heard by now, but we are thinking about moving back up to NY next year. Yay! So exciting. One of the areas we are thinking of building our next little nest is upstate NY and I am falling in love with the victorian-era homes scattered about up there. Here are some gingerbread houses I’ve been drooling over this past week.
Noelle
Found this talented lady while I was aimlessly clicking through the different Sketchbook Projects submissions.
I love the detail in her pen and ink work. These characters are so unique, I can almost see them coming to life on each page. Sasha is from Russia, but has travelled all over the world, honing her craft as an illustrator.
Click here to flip through Sasha’s sketchbook OR you lucky New Yorkers can go see it in person at the Brooklyn Art Library – the exhibit’s only up for 3 more days!
Noelle
The first exhibition on the Sketchbook Project Tour is in Williamsburg THIS WEEKEND.
The Brooklyn Art Library
103A N 3rd St
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 11211
The books will be available to view from Feb 19 – Feb 27 and then they are off to the Austin Museum of Art in TX during SXSW.
The tour will go across the country through the summer. Go here to see when the Sketchbook Project Tour will land in a city near you.
Noelle
The End.
Then I came across this beauty along the walls of his paintings, splattered all over in red like a Ralph Steadman piece.
We sifted through panels and panels of large scale artwork until I saw “Credo Quia Absurdum” (I believe because it is absurd) – gritty, scratched, peeling and dripping.
Credo Quia Absurdum
… and “Banana Girl.” I love her.
Banana Girl
He handed me a cold beer and invited us in to use his space for some indoor photographs. That was when we saw his paintings, like this one which depicts “what happens to a girl just 6 months after she moves to New York.”
Glitter.
Before / After
He offered us his guitar to use in our photographs.
Roger. He had left the old piano outside his apartment for Make Music New York before assholes came by and destroyed it. Although I think it looks more beautiful.
We went to Brooklyn to take some shots of friend and model, Aiesha, and found a magical street corner with dilapidated furniture and beautiful graffiti.
My cousin Marzia was visiting from Italy with her friends. Her boyfriend, Edoardo, is a photographer.
Once upon a time in Brooklyn…
~Joy
Hello again,
I was a freshman at Pratt when my life drawing professor took me aside the last day of class to evaluate my work.
“I really like your style Noelle, but you’ve given the models a bit of a cartoon-y look. It’s not very realistic.”
“Thank you!” said young Noelle, deciding then and there to switch her major to Animation.
I love life drawing and really admire people who can get a perfect likeness of the models within a few minutes. I can try and try, but I will never be that good. And I do have fun exaggerating features, loosening up, enjoying the jazz and the drinks at the Society on Tuesdays and Thursday Nights.
Here are a few sketches from the last one.
-Noelle
I feel like this was me on the subway last night.
New York, sometimes you suck.
~Joy
Got talking with friends one night over drinks. Decided we should start a small film screening.
Movie Night at the Glasslands was born!
this just in, at 3:00 AM this morning, noey and i completed our last animation sequence of the music video for “golem” by the maladies!!! ok, ok. noey finished hours before me. because well, she is much faster than me. but still, i’m doing my happy dance!!
we are finishing post production this weekend.
who needs a drink!?
~jOy
