Shopping Time

It is finally ready!!

The store is officially open and ready for you all to check it out =)

 

A very special season is coming and all the holidays with it.

I made a special illustration for this holiday season, I thought of having a beautiful print you can take out every year and compliment your Christmas deco!

It will be a LIMITED EDITION of 25 prints numbered and signed by me, and also availble as Christmas Card Pack. 

*There is a special gift for the first 30 customers =)

To purchase simply visit my store here:

www.gingeraftertaste.etsy.com 

Xxx

Black&White

Black and white. 

I love the contrast. 

Even though I only drew face and arms, the contrast works in a way that our brain creates the rest of the shapes... it even may feel like seing the rest of the body...

One of my favorites photographers and great inspiration is Patrik Demarchelier. He is a master of light's subtleties, he enhances his model beauty and naturalness...

In the original photo Nicole Kidman laying down on a black surface with a beautiful lace dress.

I enjoyed very much while doing it and going back to ink and black felt pen...

I will be selling the original illustration in my Etsy store. Yes!!! It is going to be ready for this holidays!! So don't miss it!

Elle UK 25th Anniversary

Rainy day in NYC. Looking through my window, I see soft blurred buildings on the other side of the Hudson River in grayish tones.
Great day to watch a movie, drink lots of tea and make it a family day.
So...lets do it! =)

For their 25th anniversary edition, ELLE UK created five different covers.
I found the first one of the collection on the web and thought I would do an illustration to send it back to ELLE team... do you guess who is in the cover??

I have been practicing on portraits, to make the illustrations tell you who am I talking about... so any clue on this one?
Kate Hudson... =) could you tell?

I'll keep working on it!

And for the weekend

It has been a not so painting week for me. I got a new studio, so have been packing and unpacking from the old to the new and been doing some "decoration" (if I could call it that way)... I will post some pictures when it is ready.

Any way I did this illustration a few weeks ago and just want to quickly post it for you to enjoy over the weekend!

I really like it because it is one of my favorites models, Sasha Pivovarova, wearing a incredible red velvet jacket design by the talented Alexander McQueen.

Hope you like it as much as your weekend =)

Big Master

Last week my good friend Jessica invited me to very special conference.
David Downtown, one of the greatest illustrators of our time, that I love and admire, came to New York in a very quick trip and FIT had him giving a lecture on 20th Century illustrators and his own work & experience.

He was very spontaneous and inspiring for us, new illustrators.

He gave one big piece of advice, that we should not focus on finding our own style. We get so caught up in that, that we forget the very essence of our art and expression.
We need to practice, and practice.... and practice even more....
because our style is going to find US

Isn't his work great!

Special Classsssss

Yesterday was a very special day.

It has been almost 8 months since my favorite and dear yoga teacher JD moved to the East Coast, and yesterday he came to NY for a unique  class... and I just couldn't missed it   =) !

I enjoyed it so much!!!.. and of course, I am so soared from it...!

Any way... I though this illustration for today (that has nothing to do with yoga except for the almost acrobatic body pose), it was inspired by an outfit from Lula's Magazine S/S 2009, you can check their website here! 

Great images and great inspiration for me =)

The big ones!

Isn’t it true that glasses actually shape the way you are perceived?

Sunglasses can actually say a lot about your personality, and yet you can change style and have a complete different look.

Classic oval and rectangle shapes for the “serious business look” , they express more confidence and intellectuality

Aviator  for very relaxed and fashion aware personality

Or Carrera and the classic Ray-ban totally retro

Big geometric shapes with thick, colorful frames and of course OvErSiZed!!!  Love them!

And we could go on…

The cool thing is that you can easily change style!  Having a few, or a lot ;),  and have fun wearing them and update your look without buying a whole new wardrobe

I think they are the best accessory plus you can use them all year around

So next time you find a pair that you love don’t think it twice!!

Any way the inspiration for this illustration is a picture of Samantha Seyfried and I couldn't help but loving it, the innocent eyes hiding behind those glasses….I had to paint it!

...and Voilá!

Back in Track!!

Yes...

I took little time off from blogging. This summer was time to learn, practice and improve the technique.

Very nice illustrations came out of it and actually they are soon going to in my store online!!

I have been working on it and should be ready soon. 

I love each and every one of the characters, and I am sure you will too!

I had a lot of fun doing this one. I really like doing hair in general, and this big afro style wasn't the exception.

I'll keep you posted!

Maite's look

Summer in NY is always very exciting,
and very hot of course.
Last week  my studio building had AC problems, so all the studios
were like ovens, literally, for almost 5 days...!!!

Any way it's fixed now and it feels great! You don't know
what you have until you loose it right?... so happy to have AC back.

This is an illustration of my good friend Maite.

When I saw her picture on fcbk  I totally
fell in love with her daring look
and the attitude altogether!!

Hope you like it!

Nice nice weekend! Stay cool! =)

L...O...V...E

Hey everyone!!

Back from long birthday celebration and 4th of july weekend

And before all this, I worked in a series of illustrations inspired by words that I like to keep in mind... this one is about LOVE.

 I looked for its definition and I was amazed of what I found... 

Being such a universal concept we all have a different idea of what love is and how to love someone... or sometimes even something...?

So I am ony going to share with you the quotes I liked, and let you think about what love is for you and how intensely are you willing to give it...

"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in”

 Morrie Schwartz

"Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life"

Leo Buscaglia

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage"

Lao Tzu

"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave"

Mahatma Gandhi