Sketchy Fridays: Rough days

So basically all I've done this week is create rough sketches for projects that I'm really going to have to sit down and go mano-a-mano with. Soon. 

Anyway, that just translates to: I don't have anything really interesting in my sketchbooks this week. 

Just a couple of scribbles I vibed well with, and one massive demonstration of why I rarely use colour. 

Enjoy the weekend!

Badass

New additions

I've just added a few new babies to my print shop here.

Houses of the Holy

Led Zeppelin shirt from eBay; op-shop skirt; markets/eBay/vintage jewellery; vintage sunglasses.

Edited with curves created by Julia Trotti, available here and here.

So I'm still on a bit of a maxi-skirt-and-boots trip, which is being encouraged by a steady run of +30°C days... consistent weather in Melbourne -- it's rare.

Artist // Miso

All above images belong to Miso. 

I had been aware of Miso's work for a while, but last year -- after somehow finding my work getting more and more caught up and associated with fashion/fashion illustration -- I stumbled across Miso's blog and my art-making-thoughts-and-feelings-reservations-and-anxieties all kind of clamoured together and then fell silent. 

It was an 'aha' moment: This is what it's about.

Because, around the time that I rediscovered Miso's work, I was really struggling with ideas about the vacuous, shallow nature of (a lot of) the fashion industry, and the fact that my work was becoming increasingly involved with that side of things. In fact, I was starting to see fashion illustration and related work as one of the only pathways to making illustration a career -- which has a definite ring of soul-selling to it. 

But anyway, seeing Miso's work -- from her beautiful street art and her homemade tattoos (always consciously delivered, friends only), to her poetic light-leaky polaroids and precise papercuts -- and the way her entire life and practice seems to be an extension of art, creation and beauty, made me think a lot about the paths I was taking. About taking a conscious approach to things, about creating beauty in lots of small things, and then eventually large things. About embodying your art, having it imbued in everything you do.

So, I'm not really done thinking about all that yet, but in the meantime, I'm just enjoying following an artist whose expression seems entirely pure and unfettered. 

Check out more of Miso's work here.

Rebel girls