sketch & craft.

I just came across a really simple DIY craft, while browsing my facebook newsfeed. Thank you, Forever 21 for posting such fun links. (I just became a "fan" of them, oh wait, I mean, I "like" them now, and they tend to post really interesting articles about fashion).

Studded Espadrilles

Photo and craft credit to Citizette.com

I love DIY projects. I could really see myself doing this with Espadrilles, because for one, they are cheap shoes, and two, they get dirty really easily. Dirty, pastel canvas just tends to look awful on my feet (but edgy on others' feet, somehow). Also, studs are really inexpensive.

Secondly, Tiana just showed me a sketchblog with some amazing illustrations! The artist is named Andrea Joseph, and she also has an etsy where she sells prints of her work. Check these out:

She also draws in moleskein notebooks frequently. In addition, she invented these small books called Molezines, which she also sells on her etsy site. They are small enough to fit into the inside pocket of your own personal moleskein, so you can carry along some art with you.

humbow

I just ate a delicious BBQ pork bun at Yak's in Fremont, and it was only $2.52 (tax included). So. Good. With Sriracha/Teriyaki sauce/Spicy Chili sauce it is amazing. I wish I had got two (my stomach is a bottomless pit).

photo credit: lachance

Updating my art corner is difficult, mostly because I do not own a computer. I have often been asked, "Heaven, how do you survive school without a laptop?" I often answer: "I don't." Literally, my grades suffer severely, not to mention my social networking life. And, probably most importantly, it is hard for me to be able to "on a whim" google an artistic subject matter.

In my Western Traditions II class (aka Art History II), I often see people, laptops out, quickly typing away their notes and speed-googling various art-topics, or artists themselves. I always peek at what they are looking at, and this stuff looks amazingly helpful in terms of the class, and just personally applying the ideas of the masters to a modern perspective...I'm pretty jealous.

I will have a computer. Someday. I will have a 13.3 inch Macbook pro, in fact. I'm holding out for it. No Dell computers for me. HP? Maybe...but no, no, I need my Macbook pro.

Ok, anyway. My friend Vanessa found this lovely designer on etsy. This stuff is amazing, and I really like what Vanessa had to say about it: "...her pieces look like music for your eyes!"

It's true, her pieces are very lyrical. The line repetition is really pleasing to me, as well as the different washes of color layering each other. Even though some pieces seem sort of dreamlike, and maybe chaotic, they are at the same time overwhelmingly peaceful!

Check out her website: www.yellena.com

Her blog is quite adorable as well. Wish I had a computer so I could persistently lurk my favorite artists. Sucks.