Central Floridian - photographer, illustrator, and (occasionally) very bad writer. This blog is mostly for my drawings and non-photographic-related creative-ish stuff.
Lunchbreak sketch from a few days ago. Figured a fresh post would be nice.
More ideas for using the two vintage Indian silk saris that arrived yesterday. This particular one I ordered as I liked these scalloped stripes on the pallu of the sari. I could see pinking them out and using them on an 1850s bone folder in a telegram-type treatment. The idea in using these on nineteenth-century frames would be that the finished product would say “I’m a woven en disposition silk cover from the 1850s” rather than saying “Hi, I’m a sari fabric.” But who knows.
A while back I ordered some vintage Indian silk saris with the idea of using them for parasol covers - they arrived today from Mumbai and this one I already have one (of many) ideas for. I just need the parasol frames to execute them on.
The (admittedly very light) sketch and its resulting bit of frippery that I did as a present to a good friend a while back, based on nineteenth century examples, and kind of adapted with bits of turquoise and French Jet (or, black glass.). The finished product is shown in a fitted box I also made for the piece.
A quick sketch of what Anna’s parasol probably looked like when new - save for the tassels, which when I did this I didn’t KNOW that they were originally ivory, but - you know - details, details.
Stuff-that-I-found-while-cleaning-out-papers-that-I-wondered-why-I-never-finished Vol. II.
Sketch for an eventual pen-and-ink-and-watercolor “sampler” type idea that I want to do for my own place. It’s Regretsy-inspired. It was also freehand, so that accounts for the slight wonkiness and perhaps, inconsistencies in the ornamentation within the letters themselves.
Govern yourself accordingly.
I randomly thought of this movie today - and remembered I had this crappy-fast sketch I did a while back. I want to revisit this quote later.
Crappy-first-attempts-at-watercolors-from-a-couple-years-back-that-I-found-while-purging-papers-from-my-files-but-I-thought-were-colorful-and-cheerful-enough-to-post-here, Volume I.
In the absence of any REAL drawing, here’s an unfinished sketch I did while in South Carolina last week - I was going for a mid-late 1870s look (I’m still learning the slim-lined post-bustle look when it comes to drawing it) but I think I went a bit overboard with the van-dyked mantle. Harumph.
