At Home in Antwerp

 The stunningly beautiful  'Boulevard Leopold' in Antwerp.
Photography; Ben Lambers.

Dreaming of a Summer Roadtrip

Art and Lair Contest

My post on outfitting the artist is one of my favorite everyday outfit 

combos ever, and so I decided to draw it, cut it, paint it, and post it.

I am thinking I would like to do a series of pieces of outfits or favorite 
things from different areas of the the America, and/or the world. 

This would be my pick for a "SEATTLE" outfit, but would LOVE to do a "SAVANNAH",

"NEW YORK", "CALIFORNIA", PARIS and maybe even JERSEY SHORE! For everyone from bloggers, friends, and art lovers in general, send me images of your favorite grouping for the opportunity to win a FREE, first illustrated, then linocut, then painted with watercolor, piece of art. The groupings can be pieces for the home, pieces of art, clothing, a combo of all, whatever, and I will choose which one I think looks best and announce a winner. All who are interested can send the collection of images (please organize them as I have above, through polyvore, or some other site that is similar) to my e-mail-jament@speakeasy.net (along with your address of where you would like it sent), and the contest will end a month from today. Whoever wins will get a mention ONLY if they give me the ok, otherwise it can be anonymous and I will just post the finished product with no name attached and then send you the piece.

This is a FREE piece of art with no weirdness involved (you will not be put on any mass e-mailings, etc..), I just thought it would be fun. 


Thanks, and I look forward to seeing what you send! :) 

The Art of the Scarf

Thank you so much for putting up with me, and my

cheezy titles...

Ahhh, the joy of the rhymeless, rhyme...

Oh, and about these scarves??  The company that makes these,

Roarke, calls them "Necklaces", but it just did not rhyme as 

well as Scarf. And I mean, come on, lets get real, they are a 

bejeweled scarf, right? A cool bejeweled scarf at that...   

Plants As Art....

This amazing garden wall inside of a home in Paris, France, 
was created by the famous botanist Patrick Blanc, 
who is the creator of the Vertical Garden.

It takes the place of a canvas, or any other art form.
It is enormous, gorgeous, and very,very alive....

Via- Yellowtrace

Have a Great Weekend!

Here is some of my work (the Serpent, and the Starburst Pine), 
hanging in one of the Sundance Film Festival's gathering spots, The Bing Bar.

Leah-Ball Steen, from Revival Home and Garden, in Seattle, was kind enough

to ask me to be involved in the project, as she was the hired

designer...She did a beautiful job...

Thanks again, Leah!

The Friends In My Head...Olympia Le-Tan

Olympia Le Tan is  a one of the many friends  (in my head)

that I have saved a spot for, (in my ridiculously small circle), 

along with a few others, whom I adore from a distance, 

and I know is going to call any day now for a girl's night out,

and yes, Olympia, of course I will come to your house for tea...

 

The boundaries between art, literature, and fashion can sometimes blur,
and Olympia Le-Tan has represented each genre, by re-creating these 
first edition book covers into clutches and totes that are pure genius...

Here is my other buddy, (in my head), Lou Dillon...

Love these totes and banners that Olympia created as well.

Olympia is one of my favorite artists out there.

Her work is carried at Opening Ceremony in N.Y.C.,

and Collette in Paris...

Love Is Strange - One of the best songs EVER...

Coffee Break

Good morning beauties and gents...I am in for a day of hardcore 

hand work, pressing, pushing, braying, and printing away today.
I have many NEW pieces I am working on, 

and can't wait for you all to see them. In the mean time I will be 

nourishing myself with LOADS upon LOADS of coffee and tea,

(my lethal combo when I can't stop working) as I was up till 3 last night

(super inspired), sketching ideas for my new collection!

Have a cup for me, will ya?

Photos- Unknown (if you know who the photographer is ,please let me know.)

His Last Day In Seattle : Picasso - 1881 - 1973

One of the biggest events to EVER happen in the Seattle art scene,

is the Picasso exhibit that is showing at the Seattle Art Museum, and

today, is the last day. 
It is an amazing collection from the Musee National Picasso, 
Paris, and is a once in a lifetime chance to see it here in the states.

The Seattle Art Museum will be open until midnight tonight, 

so get there in plenty of time, as lines, I am sure, will be long..  

La Celestina - 1904
These paintings were some of my favorite of the bunch..

The above La Celestina was painted in Picasso's 

"Blue" period and was hauntingly gorgeous.Did you know
that Picasso created 50,000 pieces of work in his lifetime?
That is insane, people...

Acrobats - 1918

Portrait of Olga in an Armchair, Fall 1918

Portrait of Dora Maar - 1937

If you go, do not miss the audio tour version of 

the story of Dora Maar. Picasso was a well-known 

womanizer, and this painting was his
"before falling out of love with her", painting.

The "after" falling out of love painting, (below), makes
the beautiful Dora Maar, look like a haggard old mess,
when it was only a year after they fell madly in love.
Picasso broke a lot of hearts, and many of his lovers,
committed suicide after he left them,
(usually for another woman).
The story of how he met Dora is fascinating.
They both were sitting at a cafe in Paris, and she was
performing an act where she would spread

her hand on the table and, as fast as she could, gouge
a sharp knife between all of her fingers.

Picasso fell in love, and apparently kept her bloody
gloves that she was wearing, in a museum-like,
glass case for the rest of his life.

 Woman Who Cries-1937

Cat Catching a Bird, April 22, 1939

The Seattle Art Museum is excited to present a landmark exhibition of the work of Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), arguably the most radical and influential artist of the 20th century. The exhibition presents iconic works from virtually every phase of Picasso’s legendary career, documenting the full range of his unceasing inventiveness and prodigious creative process.

Drawn from the collection of the Musée National Picasso in Paris—the largest and most important repository of the artist’s work in the world—the exhibition features more than 150 extraordinary paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints and photographs. This unprecedented opportunity is possible at this time because the Musée Picasso has recently closed for renovations, allowing a global tour of this full-scale survey to travel for the first and, very likely, the only time.

The Musée Picasso’s holdings stand apart from any other collections of Picasso because they represent the artist’s personal collection—works that the highly self-aware artist kept for himself with the intent of shaping his own artistic legacy.

Every major period from the artist’s prolific output over eight decades is represented, including the Blue Period La Celestina (1904), Rose Period The Two Brothers (1906), African art–inspired Three Figures Under a Tree (1907), Cubist Man with a Guitar (1911), and the classicizing Two Women Running on the Beach (The Race) (1922), to speak of only the first quarter of his career.

Highlights from the period associated with his mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter and his provocative dissolution of the human form include a quintet of Head of a Woman bronzes from 1931 and the portrait Reading from 1932, while another muse, Dora Maar, is represented in many guises, from stately beauty in Portrait of Dora Maar (1937) to emotional wreck in Weeping Woman from the same year.

Picasso’s lengthy career spanned both world wars, the Spanish civil war and the Korean War, and each conflict exerted a presence in his work. The impending chaos of World War II, for instance, is reflected in such canvases asMan with a Straw Hat and Ice Cream Cone (1938) and Cat Seizing a Bird (1939), while his consistent challenges to sculptural tradition are traced with such icons as Head of a Bull (1942), The Goat (1950) and the grand figurative groupThe Bathers (1956).

Renewed interest in his late period is also amply sated by the exhibition, with numerous paintings from the 1960s and early 1970s, including the sly self-portrait The Matador(1970).

This is the first major survey of the long and productive career of Pablo Picasso ever to be seen in the Northwest.

–Chiyo Ishikawa, Susan Brotman Deputy Director for Art and Curator of European Painting & Sculpture

All images courtesy of The Seattle Art Museum

The Art of Fashion : Emilio Pucci

Pucci is known for their prints 

which,(in the past), have seemed to be

inspired by bright 60's-ish geometrics, 

and that always felt a bit too flashy, for me.
These new creations, are a magical mystery
tour of awesome.

This one is my fav...Reminds me of something
Anais Nin would wear...

I would give my left eye.

Have a great weekend!

Via- Style.com

The Art of a Stylist

The photo's above and below, have got to be some of
 the best groupings of art, that I have ever seen.

These rooms were styled by the talented, James Leland Day.

See more here- james leland day


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Sexy Serpents...

Gorgeous, sexy and glam...These photographs are perfection...

Parisian artist Guido Mocafico doesn’t use paint, clay or a chisel to create these brilliant works of natural art. His art form is smooth, silent and scaly-skinned, the living creatures of the serpent world. Earlier this decade, Mocafico began photographing a wide variety of living snakes in a color-neutral environment. The close-quarter confines in these images cause the snakes to wrap and overlap amongst eachother, creating amazing shapes and patterns of bodies and colors. No matter your opinion of our scaly, legless friends, these images are truly breath taking. The colors are so visually arresting in Guido Mocafico’s work, we’ve never seen eye candy quite like this. (The Coolest)

Bottom photo- Elton John's Home

Check out his website here

Foggy Day

My head is in a slight fog today, and because there is so much to do,

I kinda wanna rock this look... A bunch of balloons attached to 

my head as to avoid seeing, and being seen...Hope you have a great

start to your week....

Photo- Unknown

Put this in your Shadow Box

This is the kind of found object, that makes my eyes widen and my lip curl...

Don't you LOVE???

Found here