tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76899861828735739612024-03-05T23:26:23.330-08:00AZA Illustrationwork, process, & inspirationAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09240551588311329631noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7689986182873573961.post-46959096746454813872013-12-29T18:39:00.002-08:002013-12-29T18:39:57.168-08:00Why you should use Tumlbr instead of BloggerIt's more popular.
Check my move:
azadroz.tumblr.comAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09240551588311329631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7689986182873573961.post-76026067834920386032013-12-20T09:01:00.002-08:002013-12-20T09:04:57.444-08:00OUR DIY UNIVERSE
Excuse the poor picture quality. My scanner is packed deep in a 20' trailer.
All below have linked reference photos.
I like beautiful things, and delving deep in the blogosphere guarantees an onslaught of eye candy. Blogs and websites without appealing photos don't do well - especially food websites. Consider SLIM PALATE. The kid's photos and recipes are great, but his writing is terrible Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09240551588311329631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7689986182873573961.post-43945131084272451322013-12-14T09:04:00.000-08:002013-12-15T18:55:20.873-08:00EAGLE OWL
Another example of how Sharon Montrose's photos really take the cake as watercolor reference. I recently saw on Instagram someone else doing the same, which made me smile. In hindsight, I should have saved the image.
Reference original HERE. I changed the eye color in order to make it less intimidating.
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09240551588311329631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7689986182873573961.post-30333066188518597292013-12-13T13:54:00.000-08:002013-12-14T19:23:08.492-08:00HOLIDAY WREATHSI've been very impressed with a selection of gorgeous DIY wreaths around the web this holiday season. THIS is my favorite one so far: simplicity at its best. Since we're moving during Christmas this year it is not possible to decorate our own home, so I paint it instead:
Happy Holidays from Austin,
Alli
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09240551588311329631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7689986182873573961.post-55346857000985652632013-12-11T20:28:00.000-08:002013-12-14T19:23:32.434-08:00GREEK SCULPTURE REVISITED
A quick post!
We just found a place to live in downtown Austin, which is very exciting! I'm going bananas over what furniture I'd like to have and what we can actually do. It's such a tiny place so we have to maximize space. I can't wait to get back to a desk and a proper workstation setup.
These two pay homage to my love of classical sculpture.
Enjoy!
I love Athena because she's aAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09240551588311329631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7689986182873573961.post-19913973536185049672013-12-01T16:59:00.002-08:002013-12-18T09:09:05.254-08:00THE BEST THING FOR ADULTS TO DO AT THE SAN DIEGO ZOO
Last week I was feeling claustrophobic in the city of Phoenix as a whole. Driving between 3-14 hours every weekend while living in New Mexico has permanently imprinted wanderlust into my biological rhythms. I miss traveling to small, tiny mountain towns in the desert. So I'm excited about our drive to Austin for the stops in-between, especially Riudoso, NM.
I was researching the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09240551588311329631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7689986182873573961.post-17942385191449159042013-11-29T09:39:00.000-08:002013-12-14T19:25:50.530-08:00BUFFALOAfter packing up all of our stuff and being in San Diego for a week, I'm going a little stir-crazy for my workstation at home...which no longer exists. The following was an older practice, again using Sharon Montrose's WORK as a reference. This was the first one I did of her work, and remains my favorite. Bison remind me of Christmas in New Mexico near the Jemez mountains, which is Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09240551588311329631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7689986182873573961.post-64466866042770959732013-11-23T14:03:00.000-08:002013-12-14T19:26:32.281-08:00SUSHI FISH
For one of our last night in Tempe, AZ, Nick and I went to a cheap sushi place, the same that we once "celebrated" Valentine's Day. I think it was our second date. The sushi isn't phenomenal, but it isn't $300 a meal, like Jiro Ono's sushi restaurant from JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI. It seems like a sin to go eat cheap sushi after watching such a masterpiece, but alas!
Moving is going well, but I Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09240551588311329631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7689986182873573961.post-89332345513737161022013-11-22T14:29:00.001-08:002013-12-14T19:28:40.755-08:00TWO HORSESI felt compelled to follow with the rule of three, based on my TWO FRIDAS and TWO URSAS. Today will be my last day for a week or so since we're packing up and moving to Austin(!); I'm eager about our new prospects in the Lone Star Republic. Speaking of which, Sid Mashburn had some excellent TEXAS-INSPIRED GRAPHIC DESIGN on their webpage right now.
Millie and Trace, my mother-in-law'sAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09240551588311329631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7689986182873573961.post-58562090226463050962013-11-21T09:18:00.000-08:002013-12-14T19:29:18.202-08:00CONSTELLATION: TWO URSA MAJORSIf you were to walk into the room I grew up in, turn off the lights, and look up, you'd see dozens of green-yellow glow-in-the-dark dots arranged in a handful of the most recognizable constellations: Orion, both Ursas, Serpens, etc. As a kid, I had an unspoken obsession with astronomy; I would nerd out in my room with these little information cards about red giants, asteroids, black holes, and Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09240551588311329631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7689986182873573961.post-22639453515790748362013-11-20T14:54:00.002-08:002013-12-14T19:29:50.168-08:00TWO FRIDAS
One of my best friends through middle and high school introduced me to Frida Khalo. It wasn't until college that I actually considered her an artist I could enjoy for myself because her work had, in my mind, somehow belonged to the girl I rolled with. This is similar to the phenomena of teenagers trying to own bands and music to their persona; this is especially true for kids growing up in a Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09240551588311329631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7689986182873573961.post-10028603331829586022013-11-19T08:56:00.000-08:002013-12-14T19:30:27.962-08:00PROMOTIONAL POSTER: THE LORD LACKBEARDS
I did a series of posters to promote my friend's theatre company, THE LORD LACKBEARDS, out of Wellington, NZ. They're currently mounting their summer school tour of two plays, R&J, and Bedtime Monsters. I love that their summer is actually during the fall and spring terms for us, being on the opposite side of the equator. My friend would always come back to the states from Christmas break Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09240551588311329631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7689986182873573961.post-73741794955110808502013-11-18T19:32:00.000-08:002013-12-17T19:31:00.990-08:00SHAKESPEARE AT WINEDALE WATERCOLOR MAPTime becomes elastic when you live and work in the same place, uninterrupted, with nothing vying for your attention except words, words, words. My summer of 2009 is a non-linear memory of specific locations or buildings (all within a two mile radius) where great things happened with my favorite people. This homage is not only google-mappingly sound, but it represents a private story that brings Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09240551588311329631noreply@blogger.com0Winedale, TX 78954, USA30.087271 -96.6403270000000134.565236500000001 -137.948921 55.609305500000005 -55.331733000000014tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7689986182873573961.post-36637081400274075972013-11-17T06:00:00.000-08:002013-12-14T19:32:38.440-08:00ALEXANDER POPE WOULD LIKE TO INFORM YOU
Today, I was inspired by HARK! A VAGRANT's misquotation shenanigans (see row 3...oh! harhar). There is a need for more poets in the gym.
The unbastardized version:
"To err is human[e]; To forgive, divine." An Essay on Criticism, 1711
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09240551588311329631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7689986182873573961.post-22121963597538664322013-11-16T13:33:00.000-08:002013-12-14T19:33:21.642-08:00THE BEST OF THE SOUTHWEST
Weekend Edition
My travels through the southwest have sent me to a lot of cool places since 2010, although I wouldn't consider Coastal California a part of the southwest (my husband Nick does, but I imagine San Diego is too burnt-out surfer to hang with cowboys and Indians). Eastern California, however, definitely qualifies.
#1: TEXAS
Barbeque, tacos, rolling green hills, cold Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09240551588311329631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7689986182873573961.post-81180656573466168182013-11-15T12:55:00.003-08:002013-12-15T18:51:08.967-08:00RELATIONAL CURRENCY IN THE 21ST CETURY
I've recently taken a hiatus from Facebook. These are two reasons why:
#1: My long-distance friendships (coupled with my inability to sit and compose letters, send a postcard, or pick up that fancy phone/tiny computer and dial them) get reduced to shallow monkey clicking on the photos that stimulate the most visual feedbacks to my brain or on the statuses that are much more clever than my Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09240551588311329631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7689986182873573961.post-30826920562089408212013-11-14T14:20:00.001-08:002013-12-15T18:52:51.304-08:00FLY FLAMINGO
Inspired by Sharon Montrose, whose PHOTOS seem to show up in every living room and/or baby room I see on Apartment Therapy.
They're great photos to use as watercolour/gouache exercises because there's a lot of subtle color to be played up, and the blinding white backgrounds is exactly my style.
THIS ONE and THIS ONE are my favorites!
ORIGINAL stock image.
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