One Girl Show Make Over

{at the easel, color pencil & ink on paper}


One Girl Show got a make over this President's day thanks to a new illustration and blog header!
The Old Illustration/Blog Header:



The New and Improved:


I'm really happy with it, so I hope you like it too!

Faces: Inspire Me Thursday

micron pen in moleskine sketchbook
inspire me thursday

Tulip Time

What is with all the rain today in NYC? I suppose it is like that old saying, February showers bring May flowers--or whatever. This drawing was inspired by my Dutch heritage & my love for Tulips (oh aaannnd my wish for the cold rain to go away!).

Color Pencil & Mircon Pen in a Moleskine sketchbook

Butterfly Girl

"If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies."
~Author Unknown

Butterfly Girl
ink on paper

Sisters Ink Illustration

“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
~Audrey Hepburn

This illustration is a gift for an undisclosed(& top secret)recipient:

Original Illustration, Ink on Watercolor paper

Lonely Girl

"We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for."
~Unknown

indian ink and colored micron pens on paper

Inspire Me Thursday:Gratitude

"There is no better friend than a sister. And there is no better sister than you." 

~ Unknown

This Thanksgiving I am grateful for my little sister Dani. It has been a crazy year with a lot of changes and we have been there for each other even though we are living 2000 miles apart. I am lucky to have such a good friend in my sister.

color pencil & indian ink on paper

inspire me thursday

Illustration Friday:Superstition

Since the time I first heard the phrase "Step on a crack, break your mother's back" I have avoided the seams, cracks and crevices of the sidewalk. I also never open an umbrella indoors and I don't walk under ladders but I"ll leave those illustrations for another day.

color pencil and indian ink on paper

illustration friday

Windy Day

micron pen on paper

Peacock Drawing Part 2

Still working feverishly...




it is getting there...

Inspire Me Thursday: Hat

flapper

color pencils in moleskine sketchbook

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Illustration Friday: The Blues

micron pens in moleskine sketchbook

illustration friday

Illustration Friday: Juggle

ink & white pencil in moleskine sketchbook

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Illustration Friday: Missing

missing baby bird...


"nest" illustration. micron & pitt artist pens in moleskine sketchbook
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Growing Season

"growing season" 11x20 acrylic painting

I finally finished this painting!!! I took a break from it for a couple of weeks, but after finishing the Tulip painting last night, I decided it was best to go back and finish this one tonight! I had the majority of the painting complete, so after 3 more short hours of painting in front of the TV (it is SHARK week!!!), I am done! It feels good.

Illustration Friday: Moon

mermaid
color pencil in moleskine sketchbook

illustration friday

Inspire Me Thursday: Open Topic TULIPS Painting

I moved into my apartment almost one year ago, and although I had plans for a black & white painting to hang over my sofa in our living area, but I have yet to find the time to actually carry out my plans. I've completed a million other projects for myself and others, but that was the big one looming out there and it was aggravating me. The white space on my wall was a constant reminder!!! For the past few weeks I've been sketching and perfecting in my mind what the final product was going to look like, so when the torrential rains opened up over NYC this weekend I sat down with my plans and started to paint. My boyfriend requested that the painting be black and white, so I decided to do a botanical silhouette painting of tulips. Here are the results:
First:

2nd & final (the boyfriend actually liked the painting best unfinished so I went back and added "highlights":--in the end I think it adds personality to the painting)


Tulips 24x30 acrylic paint on stretched canvas

Inspire Me Thursday: Goddess

2 color lino-cut block print 1/10

she's a lonely goddess, but a goddess nonetheless.



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One Girl Show/Platinum Blonde Studios featured in the Premier Issue of Artful Blogging!

Artful Blogging is a new quarterly publication produced by Somerset Studio that concentrates on the visually inspiring online blogs & their posts. The first issue of Artful Blogging will be available August 1st. Artful Blogging will be featuring an interview with Melanie Komisarki of Inspire Me Thursday. The article is accompanied by a few Inspire Me Thursday entries including one of my own ink drawings I had submitted to the site for the prompt, "Change of Scenery". My drawing is on the second page of the article on the lower right hand side (it is the black botanical silhouette drawing). Other artists that will be featured in the article include Julia Van Der Werf, Deborah Gorr, Bridgette Guerzon Mills, Pilar Isabel Pollock, and Lise Richards.





Pick up your copy of Artful Blogging on August 1st, for more amazing works & interview from bloggers & artists around the web! Find a store near you that will be carrying the publication here (you can also order it online by clicking here). A big thanks to Artful Blogging for featuring my art work!

Peacock Drawing

This is a peacock drawing I'm working on right now. It is obviously still in the beginning stages. The pencil on the taupe colored paper camoflauges the bird. under normal circumstances the (male) peacock stands out, so i thought this was a good fit for this week's topic