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(Don’t click this image….click the one below to view the video!) OI!! I love Brazilian Fashion Designers!!! Any of you who know me already know about my big romance with Brazil. Music, fashion, craft, culture, history, legend, cuisine, everything…… there is so much that Brazilian culture has added to my experience of life in this […]
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INSTAGRAM for FASHION -LOVE! ( My instagram for fashion feed is embedded here at the bottom of the page using an awesome “instagram feed” plugin!) Scroll down to see my recent posts right here! My video loaded with everything I learned while I tripled my instagram following in a month while euphorically harnessing the many tricks and tools that beginners
Instagram for fashion, design, and business- It’s a visual party! COME Read More »
SHADING FASHION ILLUSTRATIONS Shading is what gives depth, dimension, and 3D form to your fashion illustraitons- it is easier on the eye, and by its very nature even adds texture, emphasizes details and layers. Also, shading won’t let you get away with drawing emaciated, super skinny distorted figures (skinny is fine, but not skinner than
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MY LOVES!!! LET’S TALK about the role of CONTOURS in FASHION ILLUSTRATION TECHNIQUES! …..Edges, curves, textures, and lines. “Contours” are turning, winding edges. CONTOURS are something I refer to A LOT. Once you get into discussing visual arts and drawings, it is a vital word. Specifically, CONTOUR refers to outlines, and edges. For fashion design
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Design and Communication… Do you FREEZE UP when you approach a blank page? Here we have a heart-to-heart…. sometimes we avoid what we most want or most need to do. This can be the video camera, the sketchbook, the illustration board, the fashion show, the portfolio, the radio broadcast, podcast, phone call…. There’s so much
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Remember the Claire McCardell Museum Visit post? Remember the Agatha Ruiz de la Prada Museum Visit? Did you enjoy Tamara de Lempicka’s luscious paintings and carefully sculpted forms? I love a day at the museum, and strive to remember that fashion is, or can be, art. I always feel reminded of that when my neighbors from Bangladesh
Museum Visit: Seydou Keita, African Fashion and Photography Read More »
I’ve heard many say they were traumatized by their fashion studies. I might be one of them. But art and design study has all of the potential to be an experience of pure grace. Observing art and design delights, inspires, moves us and improves our lives. CREATING art and design aligns us with being open
How can art and design study improve your life? :0) Read More »
FASHION ILLUSTRATION CLASSES: what do I need? Hello Gorgeous Visionaries! A crop of new videos up on my YouTube channel: Informational and inspirational, I thought this week’s topics (fabric, paintbrush, message) might be really helpful for you if you are considering fashion design schools or courses for your design portfolio. I’ll release two a day until
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I’ve been so busy lately creating new course offerings and getting ready for back-to-school at Parsons, while also trying to squeeze the last drops out of my summer with the kids, that I’m developing a PILE of news tidbits for you. Here’s the top of the pile. I’ll be making up for lost time with
What’s fashion news this week 100 years ago… Read More »
Yes, it’s more of the usual. I wanted to throw a few instructional/inspirational pics up for you, and fell down a rabbit hole of art and women’s history! (notice the circular flare inserted into the hemline of this dress at knee level, and the sheen and deep shadow that create the feel of silk charmeuse). I’ve
Tamara de Lempicka- Illustrating Fashion, Figure, and Form Read More »
https://youtu.be/LnAEuwwt07s WELCOME TO ART AND ATTITUDE (bundle mindset videos enclosed in this post, journal prompts at the bottom of the page) This post is dedicated to the many mother students who have been posting and sharing pictures of their children drawing and painting alongside them while they take my online classes……thank you…. ART-ITUDE, After my second
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A few things to remember for sure when you’re learning drawing, fashion design, or fashion illustration: (I reminding myself too, here, every day)… To enroll in a free beginner masterclass, just subscribe for email updates from Fashion Illustration TRIBE to begin a free journey first. TODAY< I’m inviting you join my “boost” course called “Everything but
Negative Shape, Proportion, and Plumbline: Fashion Illustration Course Online Read More »
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