Vintage flair: February 2012

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Kicoli

Kicoli is a handmade material shop. They have selection of fabrics and scrap booking materials, all stuff made in Japan.
They a have such a fine tuned selection of geometrical and whimsical prints.

Lourdes Sanchez is an artist and printed textile designer who works in handpainted watercolor media. She designed prints for the fashion industry for 18 years before setting up her own studio in 2004. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Merida, Yucatan with her partner Russell Busch and her little dog, Moon Pie. This is a textile designer that truly inspires a generation.

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Leigh Viner

Leigh has been an artist dabbling in all forms of media since she was a little girl. Early on, she found that drawing was a great way for her to express her emotions. Today, Leigh can be found painting, drawing and photographing her subjects, most of whom are women. In addition to being an artist, Leigh has been a Makeup Artist for over eight years. It is this skill that enables her better understand the structure of her subjects' faces and to capture their shape so effortlessly, which ultimately carries out into her work.

Leigh is most inspired while looking at photographs, reading, listening to music and lyrics or immersing herself in a good movie. She enjoys combining her inspiration with a memory from her own life and ultimately the work flows from there. She needs to be inspired and draw upon personal feelings in order to create.

In addition to drawing, painting and photographing, Leigh often keeps busy sewing up little designs from screen-printed pillows to dresses to bags, anything she can create with her hands and mind. Leigh began selling her work in 2003 and never looked back. Leigh's work is exclusively available at www.jkldesign.etsy.com.

Film is so not dead.

Amazing Editorial Leighton Meester Nylon Mag

Illustration and Woodgrain Yay!

Paul McGuire

He is was one large reason I became an artist and who still inspires me today with his unfailing courage to think outside the box. He was born October 22, 1925 and was a sad passing of a heart attack in May 2008. He was an American artist who came to prominence in the 1950s transition fromAbstract Expressionism to Pop Art. He is well-known for his "Combines" of the 1950s, in which non-traditional materials and objects were employed in innovative combinations. Rauschenberg was both a painter and a sculptor and the Combines are a combination of both, but he also worked with photography, printmaking, paper making, and performance. He was awarded the National Medal of Artsin 1993. Rauschenberg was quoted as saying that he wanted to work "in the gap between art and life" suggesting he questioned the distinction between art objects and everyday objects. I love this theory because I have always viewed life as a living canvas through art, fashion, people and spirituality.