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It’s definitely been a while since I’ve had the time to work on a new design. Inspired by Sarah Silverman’s dad and my friend Alison
“i’d rather look schleppy than preppy” is a soon to be printed silk screen design. I’ve been wanting to take a refresher silk screening class at Blim and I think this will be my first duo tone print.
I went through a number of fonts (and photos of Jewish actresses) finally settling on Lubalin Graph (Demi Oblique)
& the stunning Audrey Hepburn.
So as much as I enjoy making these I underestimated what an undertaking this project really was.
I’m not abandoning it by an means but I’m going to have to scale back the frequency of my ‘drawing a day’ series. I will still be drawing and creating everyday, but with my current commitments I’m not going to be posting everything I create. The main reason for this (aside from time) is that I want to create work that is more conceptually developed not just technically. In most cases just researching and developing idea’s can take an entire day or more, making this project a full time job.
I still think the technical is important but without strong ideas and concepts the final result will always fall flat. Quality over quantity. So with that in mind I’m going to be sharing more great work from artists that inspire me and post more of my own work intermittently.
Thanks for the comments and support, you’re all awesome. xo
Inspired by Amanda Lepore (this ones for you Jordan).
Trying out some victorian monogram type styles, needs some more work…
