1920's Ink Illustrations

Ink Illustrations of Louise Brooks and the lovely Dolly Sisters for purchase at my etsy shop

http://www.etsy.com/shop/flamingichijiku

Vintage Ads and more

So I have been working for an Australian Foods Company.
Dick Smith Foods

They are all about bringing production and products back to Australia, supporting local growers and companies.

Here is some of the images I have been working on for them.
(Respect their rights to these images, do not steal.. watermarked just in case)

Oh my! it has been a long time.

It feels like every blog post I do, is a "Oh my... where have I been post!" I really should just jump back into it and act like I never disappeared for months without an update.

Wedding planning has been in full swing, I am starting school after 7 years and I am excited and nervous. Commissions are going great. AND I am still working. YAY. so that should not be an excuse, I am just completely lazy when it comes to uploading anything that I have been working on. Plus, I have not done any personal work in forever.

So this is just a little taste of what I have been busy with..  I need the water mark as soon these images will be for a client.

Will update with more later.

Green Steam Punk Girl

This is a drawing that I did for my darling sister, her birthday is coming up soon so I wanted to do some drawings for her. I plan on doing maybe one other or two. This is inspired by things that she likes, steam punk, bugs, batman, ruffles, feathers, flowers and on.. just a mish mosh of it all. Started out as a simple doodle and I decided to refine it and clean it up a bit. 

this is a little bit back to some of my older work, feels good to revisit this specific style.

Sunday Sketch

Had a busy weekend, but tried my best to get some drawing in. So just one sketch for the Vintage Inspired Collection.

Inspired Set 4

3 More done. I am getting into a groove with these. Gotta do some while I have free time during the weekend, usually I end up lounging around being useless during the week. Hope to start some more commission work once I really get settled into the school year routine.

Originally I had four done, but one really irked me for some reason so I chucked it. It happens, lets me know I am not perfect yet ;)

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The first one really gives me the chills after I finished her.. its the eyes...

Inspired Set 3

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Still working on the "Vintage Inspired" Series. Hope to put up some listings later of small poster prints. Thinking of having a bunch of 11x14 prints made up, since the more I work on this series the more I can not part with the originals just yet.

I have a hope to get a large collection together, all in the same pencil style and then have a showing of just this collection... Might happen some day. Other than my tattoo portraits this is the most of One style that I have been able to stick to. Usually I get bored and then want to move onto different styles or images, but I want to stick this one out and create a huge portfolio or book with just these images.

Vintage Continued 4 More to Series

4 More to the Series I have been working on. I think I am perfecting the style I really want to do with these. Each drawing becomes a little more perfect. I almost do not want to part with this set.. I want to keep them to myself and never share. But, I have learned over the past couple years that at some point I need to part with pieces, even if I fall in love. Each time I sell a piece of work it is like I am selling a little bit of me. It really weirds me out that I am all over the place. Such as tattoo commissions I do for people, My art is on some ones body, for FOREVER. A little dramatic I know. Okay so I will stop blubbering and post these soon on Etsy. Keep an eye out for more..

Vintage Pencil Drawings

More in the series of 'Vintage Inspired' This time pencil drawings, done on card stock, Originals will be up for sale on etsy soon (Link in sidebar). Of course if you don't snag the original I will have prints available as well. I am having so much fun with this series of drawings, they are so freeing for me to draw because I am going for 'SIMPLE' and usually all my artwork is so detailed and time consuming that by the end of it, I hate working on it. These are just too fun and I am starting to really fall in love with the era Thanks Mom.

Vintage Inspired Painting Part 2

Second Painting finished. 

more to come soon...

Vintage Inspired Canvas Painting

This is the first of the 'vintage inspired' done on canvas. Antique white and black. The size is 9x12

Boudoir Vintage Inspired Cards

Finished the Third Set of Cards today, Boudoir Inspired.

Available for purchase HERE

Vintage Cards in Process

Vintage cards in process. So this is three more designs that I have been working on, they do not have color or pressed flowers yet. .. that is pretty all I have to say right now :)

Flower Greeting Cards 2

Today I finished the next two in the set of pressed flower cards. Daffodil and Daisy. I also started creating more cards. As soon as I get plastic sleeves to put them In and mailing envelopes I will see about starting an etsy account.

Pressed Flower Greeting Cards

So I was trawling the Internet looking at things, and found pressed flowers that I wanted to use for my wedding. I got so enthralled with what I saw and the awesome price I found them at, that I bought up several types that I loved. Not even knowing what I needed for, just the fact that I had to have them. So I got the idea to make my own cards with the pressed flowers.

So these are the first two designs. Orange Cosmo and Pink Larkspur.

The next two to come are Daisy and Daffodil. I am super excited about them and can't wait to order some more flowers if these work out. My plan is that I can make enough of these to sell them locally or finally open my Etsy shop back up. Dunno. Just another venture into the crafty world. It seems I do not have time for art and yet I add more ambition to my plate. I think my eyes are bigger than my time clock... er stomach.

Forget Me Not

It feels so weird to be drawing after such a long time, basically all summer. Two and a half more weeks until my life goes back to 'normal'. So right now I am just trying to get back in the groove of doing artsy stuff. a sketch that I will hopefully be able to flesh out in the next couple weeks when I have some free moments.. funny joke... but we will see, I am going to try to make time. I enjoy it and I feel like all summer I have not really enjoyed myself. Too much work, too busy of a schedule, not enough time! Summer as a kid seemed to drag on for forever (in a good way). Long days where we did not stop playing even after the sun goes down. Now when the sun goes down I am already crawling into bed exhausted!! Even though the fall and winter bring shorter daylight hours, I always seem to be more productive with it!

M.I.A where have I been?

I feel like I have not even been on the blogosphere for an eternity, done art for forever, and even my inbox is stacking up with unchecked mail.

So summer is usually pretty crazy for me, my hours bump from 16 a week to nearly 35-40. Now other people can work that, and still find time for a life but for me I can not function after that many hours of kids. On my time off I just sit on the couch and accomplish nothing, or I am spending time with those who get ignored during my hectic schedule. To add on top of that.. .

During my recent vacation at the beginning of summer, I got engaged. So thus this phenomenon occurred. Every spare second I had between eating and sleeping, I was toiling over wedding plans, colors, themes, every tiny detail. Of course the wedding is not for a year but I still find myself browsing pictures non stop. Its all my mind can think about.

The summer is coming to an end, and my long hours will disappear and I will have my set daily life back. At that time I will be able to resume spreading my time among my many loves. Reading, Art, Internet.. all things lost at this moment but soon.. soon I will have plentiful time to do it all.

1920's Inspired

So I am finally back.. from where you might ask? Sailing the Caribbean with my love. But now I am back to reality and working 30 hours a week plus trying to fit in commission work and personal time. So I was having some trouble getting back into the groove and needed to doodle. So I worked on these little drawings for my mum at RubysMusings

Time Flies

Okay so I feel like I am constantly trying to catch up. Time keeps slipping away from me! So I recently put a lot of time and effort into making this lovely little thing:
(this is just a preview..not all the pages are shown)

Flaming Ichijiku by Rebecca L Feldman | Make Your Own Book

All my recent portrait works combined into a lovely hard bound book. Even if no one but myself gets it, it was worth it! I loved everything about putting it together. Layouts and text, to little things you don't really notice. I would love to do it again if I had enough material, or a really good idea to work with. It was very difficult to make decisions, once its printed, thats it!

The hardest part for me was to not put ALL my work in it. I had to keep it streamlined and clean. I am very proud of that work.

I have two new pieces I snuck in there, never before seen until now..

I have some other projects in the works. so hopefully when time allows itself, I will be back with more updates.

'Doll' Portrait Painting Finished

Wow, okay so I really started to hate myself towards the end of this one. Really pulled it through to get this done. Sometimes I am way more ambitious than id like to be. Its not that it's any different than the others, but her simplicity drove me crazy and all the little details matter so much more.

I am currently trying to put together a book of my work. Well some of my pieces, I'd really like for it to have a nice flow and cohesiveness.. and a lot of my work spans such a wide spectrum. So I am trying to pump out pieces that all go well with each other. Phew. Normally I would do a big piece like this maybe every 3 months and teeter with it for that long. On to the next one starting tomorrow! No rest for the weary.

I don't know why I make myself feel like its due tomorrow or something. It really could take me a year to put a book together and not matter, I am just the type where once I have an Idea.. I MUST DO IT NOW.

Okay so now that I've ranted, I need to go catch up on some much needed sleep.