FLASHBACK:90'S MANNEQUIN

FLASHBACK:90'S MANNEQUIN

BEFORE I BEGIN TO POST MY NEW SET OF SPRING 2011 ILLUSTRATIONS I WANTED TO FIRST POST ONE LAST FLASHBACK TO THE VERY BEGINNING. BACK WHEN I STARTED MY ILLUSTRATION CAREER I WAS WORKING WITH A MUCH LONGER FIGURE AND DOING MORE ERTE-INFLUENCED ILLUSTRATION.

THIS PIECE WAS A SORT OF TRANSITION IN THAT I FOUND THAT WHEN THE GIRLS WERE SUPER TALL THEY LOOK GLAMOUROUS BUT WERE LIMITING. WITH THOSE PROPORTIONS THEY COULDN'T DO ANYTHING!  ANY OTHER POSE WAS SO AWKWARD SO THIS PICTURE WAS AN EXPERIMENT WITH NEW BODY TYPES. ITS AN ILLUSTRATION OF STORE EMPLOYEES WORKING ON DRESSING A MANNEQUIN IN A WINDOW. ENJOY

SPRING 2011: BALMAIN

THIS POST IS THE FIRST OF A SERIES ON THE SPRING 2011 COLLECTIONS. MANY OF MY UPCOMING ILLUSTRATIONS ARE VERY HIGH CONCEPT BUT FOR THIS ONE I WANTED IN YOUR FACE FASHION. I INCLUDED THE SOURCE PHOTO BELOW. STAYED TUNED FOR MORE........

SPRING 2011: PRADA BANANAS/SEA OF SHOES

THIS PIECE PRADA BANANAS WAS ORIGINALLY CREATED FOR AN ART CONTEST ON SEAOFSHOES.COM. I WAS SO INSPIRED BY THE SPRING 2011 PRADA COLLECTION ESPECIALLY THE SKETCHED NATURE OF THE PRINTS. SO I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE FUNNY TO DRAW A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS. A WOMAN WHO LOVED HER PRADA SO MUCH SHE WOULD RISK WEARING A BANANA PRINT IN THE JUNGLE. I STARTED OUT WITH SOME VINTAGE 40'S COMICS AND PUT THE WHOLE CONCEPT TOGETHER. THE FINAL WINK I ADDED WAS TAKING ONE THE AMAZING COLOR-BLOCKED FOX STOLES AND USING THAT AS THE COLOR STORY FOR MY GORILLA. ENJOY! BELOW I INCLUDED TO RUNWAY SOURCE PHOTOS

BIG APPLE EDGE FOR H&M

               H&M'S YOUR ART HERE CONTEST had a NYC theme. So for my entry I wanted to re-conceptualize the "Big Apple". In my mind NYC is a glamourous, tough resilient city able to handle whatever may come. That thought led me to create this apple protected by a hard chic armor. I wanted to also incorporate a few symbolic elements: the texture of the streets, a leaf for humanity and fragility, architecture of the buildings as a framework that holds it all together.  Check out the other entries at www.yourarthere.com

H&M FASHION VIDEO!!!! COMING SOON

FOLLOWING MY INVOLVEMENT IN THE H&M YOUR ART HERE CONTEST I WAS ONE OF THREE ARTISTS FROM OVER 800 ENTRIES ASKED BY H&M TO BE FEATURED IN ONE THEIR FASHION VIDEOS ON NYC ARTISTS. WE JUST SHOT IT THIS WEEK AND YOU WILL SEE THE RESULTS EARLY NEXT YEAR. IM LOOKING FORWARD TO SHARING IT WITH YOU ALL.  HERE ARE A COUPLE OF BEHIND THE SCENES PICS.

can i just say how much i love your work? i have no question. i saw your work on sea of shoes :) made christmas a little merrier.

thanks so much i really appreciate the compliment...stay tuned for more!