{17/365} Paris Books & Trinkets

I really want to go to Paris, someday. That would be an amazing place to take photos, no?

Excess Baggage: Illustration Friday

One thing I always have a problem with during the holidays is excess baggage (that is if the airlines don't lose it all together). I really need to learn to travel lighter (or just ship my bags before hand) as does this girl below:

color pencils on paper


As i was drawing this, the Coconut Records song "West Coast" starting playing in itunes. sometimes things just are too perfectly paired. I love the very middle of of the song best:

" And i miss you/I’m goin back home to the west coast/I wish you woulda put yourself in my suitcase/I love you/Standin' all alone in a black coat/I miss you
I'm goin back home to the west coast/And if you shake her heart enough she will appear/Tonight i think i'll be stayin here/And you never did like this town/I talk out loud like you're still around"

Take a listen:



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Illustration Friday: Visitors

color pencil + micron pens in moleskine sketchbook

when my boyfriend saw this drawing he asked, "who is that girl walking sophie?...tell that b*otch to give me my dog back!" hehe! our dog, Sophie, frequently makes her way into my drawings & sketches, I suppose she is my muse.

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Inspire Me Thursday: World Traveler

This week is just a quick one. I did a Paris drawing not too long ago, and I thought about just finishing it and using it for this but that felt a bit like cheating. I think I took a less obvious approach to this topic. I am using this simple painting as a background to one of my journal pages. Here it is:


acrylic paint
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Paris, je t'aime

micron pen in a moleskine journal