The New Look

"I wanted my dresses to be constructed, molded upon the curves of the feminine body, whose sweep they would stylize,"

Christian Dior proclaimed in his autobiography. This concept was the Paris designer's aim when, in the spring of 1947, he launched a new line of women's clothing that stunned and delighted the rest of the fashionable world.

"Corelle," Dior dubbed the line of post-war clothing (naming it after the botanical term for the frail petals at the center of a flower), though fashion magazines in Europe and the U.S. quickly and adeptly nicknamed the Dior collection "The New Look."

The Bouquet

More Riding Hood designs

Big Burly Bear 2

"Hello Little Girl...."

Big Burly Bear

Finally a post! Been working on my children's book in between everything else!

Fat Lady

Strong Man

Beneath

Old Fashioned?

An Old Fashioned is a cocktail, possibly the first drink to be called a cocktail. It is traditionally served in a short, round, tumbler-like glass, called an Old-Fashioned glass, named after the drink. I'd love to do the male counterpart if I have the time.

Acrobat

"...it's a helluva town!!!"

Some recent greeting cards I designed with NY as the theme.

The Lady In Red

Figures

Spent some time in the Hall of Pacific Peoples at The American Museum of Natural History. The lessons in design that can be gleaned from that room are immense.

Elephant Rocks

Last year when Jared and I were visiting his family beach house in Northern California I took out some pastels and tried my hand at some work en plein air. There are these marvelous elephant rock formations near the beach that I wanted to capture...and yes, I am aware that it looks phallic.

Alcedinidae

I drew this in La Specola, which is the Natural History Museum of Florence. This place is INCREDIBLE, filled with every animal in creation, but very different than our American Museum of Natural History. We are so used to beautiful dioramas where the animals are displayed so elegantly. Not this place, just lots of great dead animals in enormous glass cases, many of them well over two hundred years old. No muss, no fuss...just put 'em on display. I could draw in there for days.

Jackie

I made Jackie look very bitter, and she isn't in the least...she's incredibly sweet and talented.

Day Dreaming

More development for my jester story... a lot has changed since I started working on it and things have been progressing.

Painting at Spring Street

I would have liked more time to work on the hand, but this was all I got!

GAUR

Spent the day at the Museum of Natural History with my dear and talented friend David. Click on his name to see his drawings.