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Spectrum Fantastic Art: Live! and Active Culture

For the past four years I’ve been attending Spectrum Fantastic Art Live in Kansas City, MO. This year was the first year I was not participating as an exhibitor. I’ve made a firm decision not to exhibit at all for a full year while I...

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Designer Alchemy: Natural Science Insect Specimen Painting Demonstration

  A recurring theme on this blog is my obsession with natural science, more specifically; BUGS. I love bugs. Well, that is to say, I love them glued behind glass and hanging on my wall or otherwise, a non-invasive part of my life. I have...

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FIAF Fashion Talks: “Uncovering Fashion with Garance Dore`”

  Last week Garance Doré led FIAF Fashion Talks “Uncovering Fashion”, how digital has changed fashion. From the beginnings of blogging to today’s use of Instagram and Twitter, the four panelists gave their take and experience on the digital age of sourcing talent and marketing...

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Travel Journal: Art, Design and Sketching in Savannah

As much as I love epic art trips to another country, a welcome trip to a familiar place is a wonderful way to relax and enjoy. It’s been about four years since last I visited the home of my adult childhood; Savannah College of Art...

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Oscar De La Renta “His Legendary World of Style” @ SCADMuseum of Art

This past week I visited Savannah College of Art and Design, my alma mater. Much has changed at SCAD including the addition of the Museum of Art which currently houses the first posthumous Oscar de la Renta tribute exhibition.  The show was curated by SCAD...

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Fashion Talks Proenza Schouler @ fi:af

The French Institute in New York is having some exceptional fashion events going on over the next few weeks. Last week’s “Fashion Talks” with Proenza Schouler was a fun journey down current fashion history lane. Proenza Schouler started around the time I was graduating from...

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Street Sketching @ Saks 5th Ave.

I like to doodle in my Moleskin. Here is a current window montage from  Saks 5th Avenue featuring Emanuel Ungaro. I used my Lukas watercolors with Winsor & Newton white gouache.  Bring spring from the inside out.  

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A Look in My Book: Natural Selection

Motifs from nature permeate fashion trends season after season. Here are a few collected specimens across recent seasons. You may recall the last time I did a few of theses in my “Sea and Air” post featuring feathers from Prada.     I will never...

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Pop HortiCulture: We’ll see YOU, at the Movies!

Spring is nearly upon us once again. It’s become a tradition for a wild assortment of my garden variety pals to pilgrimage to Philadelphia and see the Horticulture Show. (Read about past excursions here and here) This year the theme was “Celebrate the Movies” but with...

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Fashion Sketching from Life with Markers

Sketching from life is vital to an energetic and informed illustration. Luckily, in New York City there are many opportunities to find your flavor of life drawing. Be it academic, fashion, sequential art/ animation or architecture there is a group somewhere for everyone. I personally...

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