I’m drawing film stills again! This will be up on my Etsy store soon (along with some other small originals).
I’m trying to clear out some inventory from my Etsy store - so, if you spend at least $10 you’ll receive 15% off of all purchases with the code TENTACLES.
I posted the following on my personal facebook page the other day: “maybe I’ll try to do one completed drawing a day? For 40 days. LIKE JESUS. But with more nudity.”
So, yeah. I’m doing it. A completed drawing a day. This is the first. Drawing #1 for Lent. Evelyn Nesbit and John Barrymore. Beautiful, young and drunk on too much wine.
As promised, my lovelies! In honor of my 700th follower (who was the delightful artist Greg Stones). There is a chorus girl. There are monsters.
Have a truly delightful 2013!
I really am entranced by the idea of these two-headed cabaret performers, so you will likely be seeing more of them soon. A print of this image will be available in my Etsy shop soon!
Jeune fille dansant la dance des Auvergnate Dancer/danseuse from the famous cabaret ”Folies- Bergere” Paris Postcard
“A couple of Mondays ago, me and a select group of my lady actor/artist friends attended the human size portion of Cynthia von Buhler’s Speakeasy Dollhouse which crops up every few months in The Back Room - what used to be Lansky’s Lounge, and way before that, an actual speakeasy in back of Ratner’s. It’s best described as a combination of interactive theater, art installation, cabaret and fancy dress party. Guided by cops (dirty, of course) into a bakery area in which cannolis are proffered, one is then led one party at a time into the speakeasy proper. Heavy on atmosphere and fun, and light on narrative, the attention to detail impresses. Howard Fishman’s combo perform period perfect jazz, cocktails are served in coffee cups, everyone looks fabulous. The one criticism I had would be that I would have liked a bit more direction in terms of where one should be looking. But, that’s just a quibble, it hardly matters.”
An excerpt from my piece on Cynthia van Buhler’s Speakeasy Dollhouse. Read it in its entirety, here, tomorrow (Monday 6/18).
A watercolour sketch for the Evelyn Nesbit project. I’ve been pretty fascinated with her story for a good long while, it just feels so… fictional. But isn’t. I wrote a long multi-part blog post about her here.
