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Choosing to do fashion illustrations for my September series...it was the right choice. I am look forward to finding my image in the September Vogue each day, and to creating my own version of what I see. I even started some side projects...more to come. Much more.  September 1-10th daily pieces  Side projects...some fashion icons...and lil' fun mixed media pieces...
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It goes without saying that I made art ever day of the long weekend. I managed to get out to see the sunrise at the beach on Saturday morning. The rest of my art was created at my little couch table while watching the September Issue...and Dexter, of course!  My weekend- in ART! ...and then there was some time for fun at Adam's annual birthday poker bash. The girls (and pups) hung out in a different room chatting it up and snacking, per usual. What wasn't the usual- this year we had two babies with us! Jen and Giselle are mommas now, so we added two members to our party group!  Pretty ladies, babies and pups! The major 'work' on my part was trying to organize my #AngelDropArt photos. My goal is to create galleries for each year for my web site, and also make sure I have dedicated (and updated) albums on my FB art page as well. Honestly- I haven't been doing a great job keeping track of all the angels I have left all over the place...I didn't have any idea just how many I had created until Scooter and I started this project. Looks to be 824 since 2013. Wow. More on these updates later this week!  Organization...in progress! First, this;Back when I started making art every day in January of 2012, I started with the help of the Creative Every Day web site. For a while I would stick to the suggested prompts, and I used to be better about remembering to go to the site each month and post a link to my series for that month...it got away from me. I started coming up with other ideas for my monthly themes. And I would forget to post my links. I am going to set a reminder on my phone to help me remember to do this. Fingers crossed, I hope it will help. Even though I don't follow the prompts I do still like to be associated with this group of artists, making the commitment to be creative- every single day. When I am planning my monthly themes now, I try to work in any related happenings...including travel. The reason I am bringing this up is I actually changed my original idea for my September theme due to having to move a trip to NYC back to November. October is ALWAYS something related to Halloween because its always been one of my favorite holidays...and November will be very special...more on that later. ...any ideas?I posted on my FB page for suggestions- and I got some really good ones! The top two contenders were to work with an 'art history' theme and also a 'football' theme. I am thinking about the art history-inspired pieces for maybe January of 2017, I think that would be a great way to start my new year and could lead to ideas for future works (Thanks, Angela!). And the football theme...that was tough. The main reason I opted not to do that one is I felt it was really close to my 2014 Cheerleader-inspired series. But I may revisit that idea in the future. (Thanks, Caitlin, 'B' and Jen!) ...and thank you Morgan, Hannia, Gina, Jenny P and Raquel for your ideas too...will definitely keep those in mind, too! ...and the theme is... ...okay...but WHY?
The more I thought about it, the more sense it made to me... I first discovered my love for fashion illustration in September of 2012...and ended up creating over 45 illustrations (in addition to my daily art!) and would go on to make many, many more...  Pic from a September 2012 blog post...me in the depths of my new passion ...and the new Project Runway airs ton Septmber 15th! (already in my calendar!) And anyone that knows me can tell you how much I adore Tim Gunn...I mean..I even have a laminated 'Pocket Tim' (okay, so I made him a bookmark, but sometimes he travels)  What can I say I love Tim Gunn! John thinks maybe a little TOO much.
So that's the new series, fashion illustration based on the September 2016 Issue of Vogue Magazine, tagged as #DrawnToFashionJLG on Instagram. Here are the first three ladies, all from Prada Fall 2016;  Daily art from Sept 1-3, 2016
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