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Crimson's Musings
Empty Thoughts
Alexandre Farto (aka Vhils) started with the idea of turning photos into stencils. Instead of using spray paint though, he scratched portraits into walls around Moscow.
Portraits Scratched into Walls
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Stunning.
Star Wars Meets Labyrinth (which could have totally happened given that Lucas was the Exec. Producer on the film).
This gave me a giggle since I actually watched Labyrinth this weekend. I still love this movie. It makes my Inner Child smile.
Pablo Amargo creates brilliantly witty conceptual illustrations.
Found via Designers Go To Heaven.
Is the cow half full or half empty? ;)
Photo realistic drawings by Linda Huber
She happens to give online drawing lessons, too.
So amazing, this. Wow.
Hold my calls, please.
So, if I fail to answer…just speak into the cat.
- Angel (with an) a
I don’t have to wonder anymore…
If the X-men were used in the remake of ‘The Breakfast Club’ - tada!
Love it.
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Ran across this and thought it was pretty amazing. Batman and a claymore, I say - Hells Yes!
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What’s your story?
When I’m away from the keyboard I doodle and sketch. Lately, Izzy keeps turning up in my sketches and doodles. She’s an inspiring cat, yes.
- Angel (with an) a
Current working on this in the cafe.
Anyone who knows me - knows I’m a Silent Hill video game nerd. And can’t help but make references to that. Viva la Happy Burger!
Jolie and her BIC pen making pretty in her sketch book. She continues to make my words beautiful. I am blessed.
- A.H.
Pie Fail…
It’s been a very long time since I actively tried sketching anything on purpose. When I used to draw with pens I tended to favor Zebra F-301 pens. I found a few I had lying around from bygone art days, though I had to get some replacement ink cartridges.
While sitting in Shari’s the other night ruminating over to get a slice of pie or not to get a slice of pie (pie was nixed in favor of a chocolate milkshake) I decided to test out the pen. Needless to say, pie drawing was not so pie-licious.
The ink in the new refills was different too. I’m not sure I like it. It’s heavy black and seemed very wet. I tend to be a messy sketcher…and if the ink is too wet, it not only ends up all over me, but I tend to smear it around the page as well. Sad that my once favorite pen seems to not be so much a favorite anymore. I still love to write with them, but not so sure I’ll be sketching with it.
After having sketching pie fail, Izzy ended up in my sketchbook too. She’s rather easy to draw as she is a lump of black with eyes. However, it appears that she’s also an art critic too. Figures. ;)
In the history of our friendship, jolie will work on a secret piece and then later surprise me with it. This was one of those pieces and I positively adore it. In past renditions of project: iheart, jolie and I wrote that Paula was the one who gave Nick his first piercing(s), which started a trend for him. Thanks to jolie, we now have artistic photographic evidence of this moment.
Lil details I love greatly outside of the characters themselves:
I adore that Pazu/Lulu the cat was added, especially since Nick and her have such a special relationship.
Paula is still a relatively new character who went from being a side character to pushing her way into the story as Pretty Paula’s tend to do…seeing her drawn in jolie style is amazing as jolie is able to take what I jibber-jabber to her and turn it into art.
The fact that jolie has the claw foot of the tub in the left hand corner makes me laugh. For some reason, bathrooms and clawfoot tubs have been making a continued appearance in my writings. For those unfortunate (or fortunate) enough to have written with me past, present, possibly future…you can guarantee that at some point there will be some kind of bathroom/bathtub scene. I don’t know why…I’m just wired that way. So…I love it, I do. It makes me smile and laugh.
There are so many things to love about this piece, I can go on and on. What I do know is that I’m a very, very, very lucky girl that the Universe saw fit to toss us in each others path.
Thank you jolie - I love the piece!
- Angela (with an) a
Whodunit?
Jolie knows! In her latest project: iheart piece, On the Bathroom Floor, it was Pretty Paula, in the bathroom with a safety pin, in Nick’s lip! While some friends might enjoy playing boardgames in the living room, Nick and Paula are perfectly happy playing Pin the Safety Pin in the Nicholas.
What connects you to your best pals? Like Nick and Paula we’ve all got something that connects us to the people we hold nearest and dearest in our life. For jolie and I, creativity began our bond, but the years between first meet and the present have made a circle forged in steel. Enjoy watching my creative parnter in crime do that thing she does so well and make magic happen on the screen.
- Angel (with an) a
On the Bathroom Floor
by jolie alicia
Tools of the trade: open canvas + PSe8 + Bic Pen (of course)
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I don’t need no stinkin’ Black Swan…I has a jolie and she makes pretty pictures I adore. <3
Prom: Every girls biggest dream or failed experiment
She’s at it again with her bic pens and tablet, in her latest piece, jolie’s captured the spirit of those awkward photos that some of us keep tucked away between pages of forgotten books on shelves. Those less than sterling moments we hope don’t come back to haunt us at our next high school reunion…or in this day and age on any one of the social media sites used today.
So, sit back, reminisce, wince, laugh, or cry at memories gone by as you watch jolie work her magic art voodoo that she do-dos so well. And once again, my hats off to her for taking ideas and words and bringing our characters from the page to life. You rock my world girl.
- Angel (with an) a
“I asked for a swan - and got a goose”
by: jolie alicia
Tools of the trade: base sketch: bic pen everything else: Open Canvas + PSE 8
(Source: btjsnews)
Hot off the press…a new work in progress from jolie’s art desk!
jolie’s latest piece features the Creeks once quiet and timid exile Riley Elizabeth Thompson all dolled up in her prom dress, though not so taken with her date. Love has been like fallen pieces on a chess board in Ms. Thompson’s life and while those lessons have caused her to play cautious in games that deal with the heart, she’s still a girl who plays make believe beneath a quilt of stars and fancies socks that are actually cats.
For another jolie piece featuring Riley Elizabeth Thompson check out Hallow’s Eve.
Happy Holidays,
Angel (with an) a
currently working on this.
angela feel free to take liberty with the text on the side. :)
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