The Landlady

Last year I took Chris Sasaki's Advanced Character Design class at the Animation Collaborative in Emeryville, Ca and it was truly one of the best experiences of my life. Chris is a great man, designer and teacher and I will always be grateful for the lesson's learned. When showing us previous assignments for other classes he mention the Roald Dahl story "The Landlady" about a sweet old woman who funds a B&B and wants her lodgers to stay on much longer than they intended (if you get my drift!). I remember it being on 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents' and I thought I would take a crack at it for my portfolio this year. Here are some initial concepts.

Today would have been Elizabeth Taylor’s 82nd birthday!

©Peter Emmerich

The Divine Miss M

George Hurrell Tribute

Madonna

Mahatma Gandhi

Lucy

RIP

                        Why? Because we like you....Thank You Annette Funicello.

Miss Ross!

Nina

                                                          High Priestess of Soul

LIZA

Eve

New Rumpelstiltskin art

Working on some new images for my Rumpelstiltskin portfolio...here is one of them.

Barcelona

OLE!

Cher

"I don't think that this means that I am somebody, but I guess I'm on my way"

-Cher upon accepting her Oscar for Best Actress

New Travel Poster-Florence

Continuing with my travel poster series...more to come very soon!

Harry Potter trio

I wanted to get through more of the characters before the CTN Expo in November, but this may have to do for now...

Diana Vreeland

The other night we went to see "Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel" all about the famous editor of both Harper's Bazaar (1937-1962) and Vogue (1962-1971) not to mention becoming the consultant to the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 1971.

Overly rouged with a fabulous outlook on life, she was extremely quotable..for example: "There's only one really good life, and that's the life that you know you want, and you make it yourself!" or "The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it".

I first became aware of who she was as a teenager because in the 1957 movie musical "Funny Face", the character of Maggie Prescott (as portrayed by the divine Kay Thompson) was based on Vreeland. Go and see it if you have any interest in Fashion, style or just plain fun...Trust me it has Pizazz!!

A print of this piece can be purchased by visiting my Etsy store at
https://www.etsy.com/listing/110395828/diana-vreeland-11x17-print

RIP

Marilyn: 50 years since her death