procrastinatron

Try as I may to start a new piece for my show... I couldn't help but get distracted by the CUTEST DAN DEACON VIDEO EVER.

Dan Deacon - Paddling Ghost from Natalie van den Dungen on Vimeo.

I'm going to see him this weekend in Ithaca! Yessssssssssssssssss! Okay now back to work!

it wouldn't be a carla show without....

Langhorne Slim!!! This is the best photo refff that I've ever found... Langhorne with a bike! Be still my heart!

This is the sketch for the show... and then I was looking through old sketches and found one that I did a year ago from the same photo.
It's pretty funny to see how different they look when they're done from the same photo ref. My favorite part is the eyes.

bike sweat

My goal this October was 200 miles biked on the Erie Canal trail... and on Thursday I rode my final 27! It feels really great :) During my last ride, I took a few pictures to document some of my favorite parts. They're in no particular order... above is my 10 mile mark, Long Pond Road in Greece.

This is my bike! For a few weeks, there was another Raleigh Sportif parked here with road bike handlebars and a road bike saddle. I always stop to stretch at about 23 miles, in Pittsford, where I can watch the ducks.
This was taken while riding, the colors were spectacular this autumn. Still are, in fact!
In the background you can see one of the bridges that I cross. This is right near the launch site for college crew teams, I've happened upon a few crew meets this month.
Finally, biking gear! The argyle socks are necessary, and I change it up based on weather. Twice this month there were 32 degree mornings, and I had to layer it up quite a bit, but they were some of the most beautiful ones, with steam rising off of the canal as the sun rose, foxes running along the trail with me, and the gorgeous sunshine on the canal as it rises :)

the bees knees

I love this bike! My month long goal for October is to get 200 miles in on the good old Erie Canal, and as of today, I have 52 miles left! Woot woot!



I also finished the portrait of my friend Gayle for the show.

for the masses

This piece, for my show, is for all of those people who found the other ones "too weird". Bite me.

Silhouette Inspiration

Tom Fun Orchestra-Bottom of the River from trunk animation on Vimeo.

One of the first assignments in Illustration 1 was a silhouette illustration of a fear. This animation brought me back to that class, I fell in love with the song and the singing bags :)

Animation done by Trunk Animation, song by Tom Fun Orchestra (who have a super cute site!)

sail us to the moon

first and foremost, i have been getting a lot of slack lately for my pieces for my new show not being "normal" enough. so here's a sketch of carla selling out, doing a tiny tim piece for the christmas season.
i'm also putting some classical style portraits in the show, this is a rough sketch of my friend gayle, who you may remember from an earlier post.
In the sociopath piece, i drew inspiration from one of my scrap sheets, seen above. I had gotten gesso all over it while painting the spider web for the black widow piece, and i absolutely love playing with watercolor over gesso. i played with the media further, and had a lot of fun! i love how it resists.

oh hey, 30 Rock's new season starts thursday! who has two thumbs, doesn't speak limited french, and is super pumped? THIS MOI! some old sketches of my girl crush tina fey and the ever sexy alec baldwin.