Summergram

Instapix from the last couple months because summer rules!

rainbow sprinkle ritual / rugcat / new little planter made by these guys I got at Renegade / painting / more painting / kitty walks / kitty on the new flat files / bushwick backpack club / cat tote attitude club / Rachel in her cat dress / important East River rock collection / Kaye and I in Prospect Park / Moses on a hot day / summer shorts / studio cuddles / whoaaa / sunlight / babycat and a painting by Tuesday / paisley stampin' / a strawberry I grew (!!) / more studio cuddles / the table situation / fun cucumbers

Leaves

Summer Fruit

I painted some of my favorite summer fruit over the past few days, in honor of summer and how much I'm enjoying the fruit share part of our CSA. Last week I baked an amazing crumble with the strawberries and rhubarb we received, and this week we devoured a quart of blueberries in just a few days.

My collection for Anthropologie came out last week and this Griegii Mini Dress has quickly become my favorite. The samples I was sent are a size 6 and most of them pretty much swallow me alive, but this shift dress (also in the bears print) looks great oversized and cuffed. I'm so happy with how everything turned out, and also impressed with the quality. Reading "polyester lining" always makes me wrinkle my nose, but the lining on these is actually very soft and slinky, and super nice for a synthetic. So, take a look at my pieces and the rest of the Made in Kind lines here!

yoga girls

Park Day

I kicked off the day with an early-morning walk (more like a dawdle) in our neighborhood park with Moses. It was his first time really exploring the outside world on a leash, and I think he really liked it. Then I headed, sans Moses, to Park Slope for a picnic lunch and an afternoon of sketchbooking in Prospect Park with Tuesday. All the greenery and damp air put me in the mood to draw some fruits and vegetables.

These are some very, very lightly edited scans. The muggy weather meant my paint never quite dried, resulting in lots of smudges everywhere. I might edit some of these further into finished repeating patterns, or repaint more polished versions.

Secret Garden

Today I worked on this piece for a show my friends Tuesday and Pete are curating at Light Grey Art Lab in Minneapolis on the theme Garden of Earthly Delights. I decided that since it's for a gallery show I really wanted to try and do something that was all made by hand, and wasn't just a print of something I finished by scanning and editing in Photoshop. It was actually kind of hard, since all of my finals now, before they are printed, are just digital files. I think I like it though! The unscanned version is really nice because the figures and plants aren't glued down all the way so they pop out like a diorama.

Senior Show!

Hey, my senior thesis show opening was yesterday! Thanks to everyone who came, it was so much fun and I'm also relieved that it's over.
Diwa and I in front of my scarves (the top right one fell and was dangling from one nail by the end of the night) / Rachel and I
Chelsey and her series Night Religion.
Diwa in her amazing cat crop that no one else has / Gareth and Dylan
Noël and I
At my apartment afterward, Kaye and Tuesday with Baby Moses

LOL

Here I am in a Japanese magazine called SOUP! I'm wearing something I would never wear in real life and standing in front of the messiest part of my house, that for some reason I was told to stand in front of. But! It's pretty cool.

This is how I work now.

Have you met Baby Moses? He's a loving and needy little thing who sits on my shoulders while I work.

Here is something I did a long time ago and just found recently. I love it so much, it reminds me a bit of Tsumori Chisato prints I've been looking at recently.

internet girls

I don't think I ever got around to posting photos from Internet Girls at Habitat House last summer. Here is one!