Paris Dreams

I love sketching a portrait



and then using digital magic to refine the look.



I remember the Breck Girls, which were lovely renderings of girls with lovely hair for Breck Shampoo.



Back in the 1966 I went to the Guggenheim museum to see the famous Andy Warhole exhibit.



Andy Warhole would probably be lost in the world of Photoshop if he were alive today.

The word Paris is from The Graphics Fairy.

My Vintage Runway

For quite sometime I have been getting back to my first love, fashion illustration.

Every now and then I'll get out a fashion magazine like I did at Seventeen,

and sketch away.

Most recently I went to the Boston Museum of Fine Art and saw two gorgeous exhibits about Vintage fashion.

I wrote a post about my visit to the museum and links at my other blog, A Scrapbook of Inspiration.

I was reminded of all the wonderful dresses that I wore Once upon a time.

I really should be cleaning my art room...

Well, I should. I started to organize my art room yesterday,

and I promised myself I would work on it all day today.

But then I started to doodle digitally,

and well, one thing led to another and...

I started to daydream about Spring!

P.S.  if you would like to digitally paint and daydream, Rhonna Farrer's backgroungs are amazing.

And Karen from The Graphics Fairy has lovely images to play with for free..

Daisies

It's funny how one paintbrush sketch of a daisy can lead to so many graphic designs.

Daisies always make me smile.

Finally back to my sketchbook

I have been lost in French script and busy designing fabric on Spoonflower, adding things to my etsy shop and blogging on A Scrapbook of Inspiration and For The Love of Old books, and taking photographs.

It's never too early to begin creating Christmas designs.  I have turned this mixed-media design into  prints and fabric, but I am thinking maybe Christmas cards too.

and another,

I must remember to update my sketchbook

A more traditional Father Christmas

more often. Happy creating.

Chandeliers

Creating new art using ephemera or restoring Antique artwork with my digital paintbox is fun. Here I created a chandelier book plate for the inside of books using my original design.




A bit of Jane Austen from a 1917 MANSFIELD PARK





And a bit of Alice in Wonderland



Frances Burnett's MY ROBIN

MY ROBIN

One of my favorite authors, Frances Hodgson Burnett who wrote The Secret Garden also wrote a little book called MY ROBIN.



I have been lost in restoring these Antique prints found inside this wonderful old volume from 1915.



A new passion of mine is restoring Antique artwork from wonderful old books found on the dusty shelves of old book shops. Dusting them off and setting them free to be seen as new repurposed artwork is my new passion.