kate b. draws things

christmas card!

2010-12-20T21:53:00.000-05:00

here's this years card we'll be sending out soon! starring chloe, of course...

(click to enlarge)

oldies

2010-12-05T18:05:00.000-05:00

finally found the scans of my work from the last semester of school... here's some stuff that i did for my final semester at pratt!

Amelia Earhart

Jackie O

Lady Gaga

Lucille Ball

Passion Pit album cover

Sonic Youth

another site bada bing bada boom

2010-03-19T22:30:00.004-04:00

so i really want to get into wedding websites, because i'm a hopeless romantic. kind of. so i created a faux wedding site, with a fake couple and everything. its kinda weird cause, yes, i did make up the story and all of the crap... it was kind of a creative writing thing... i think... hahah so anyways check it out!

CLICK HERE FOR EMMA & ROB'S WEDDING SITE

apartment 138 website redesign

2010-03-12T10:18:00.003-05:00

hi all! so in my advanced flash class i am taking one of our assignments was to take a crappy HTML website and redo it in flash and make it a million times better and prettier. so i knew i wanted to do one of the many restaurants i thoroughly love, and i discovered that the AMAZING restaurant Apartment 138 on Smith Street in Boerum Hill had a mediocre, could-do-much-better site. lots of little slideshows and awkwardly placed text in Times New Roman or some sort of serif font. SO! i took their cute style of a simple damask pattern and their homey way of combining comfy colors and created (what i think is) a nice solution for them! I still have a few things to work out, and its not completely finished, but here is what I've done!

CLICK HERE FOR SITE

put a ring on it

2010-02-25T16:26:00.003-05:00

i'm doing an illustration of the-dream
aka the man behind rihanna's umbrella and beyonce's single ladies
and a few good solo songs of his own
here's the beginning drawing of it y'all

ladeedaaa

2010-02-19T11:20:00.003-05:00

so... currently i am stalking the life out of art directors and editors from select magazines i'd like my illustrations to be in. thank god for google!
i do so much random shit when i'm at work that i always rediscover little silly doodles or things i made, and i found this today... and weird thing is i actually was using the phrase "brainchild" this morning and i think its funny that this is the thing i found.

now my friends and i are working on a collaborative childrens book titled "Därwol the Narwhal" and its my turn. i'm thinking something about running from the underwater cops due to Därwol piercing a child narwhal through the eye cause he's gone off the deep end (no pun intended)

little thinger

2010-02-12T14:11:00.003-05:00

just something i did up quick while at work during lunch... smore handwritten type with embellishment

experiments with handwritten type

2010-01-28T16:16:00.012-05:00

i like to write things and i like words so sometimes i like to play around with handwritten type. actually i reaaaally really like handwritten type, personally. not that i'm great at it or anything, but here's some things i found in my office of little typographic experiments.

DISCLAIMER:
lawrence, sorry if that seemed creepy but the logo is from when we were working on your website. don't worry i'm not just writing your name on things cause im obsessed with you or anything...

baby love

2010-01-05T19:15:00.004-05:00

okay so this is diana and just her and i edited this after i finished the one below... because i really wasn't that happy with it. so here is just diana

alright so i did the supremes. i started out just doing diana ross and i probably should have just stuck with her and not added florence & mary. but whatever... here it is!

another restaurant review

2009-12-03T17:01:00.002-05:00

so here's my new reviiewwwww for LOVE LANE KITCHEN in mattituck, ny. and the pequeña one is revised also... but i'll post that at a later dateeee.. ENJOY!

FINALLY A FINISHED PROJECT YAAAYY

2009-11-13T10:48:00.001-05:00

i have finally reached a point of content and it took long enough.

enough blahbalh here's the finished piece ... the review isn't there yet but ignore the lorem ipsum i just needed fake text.

I HOPE YOU ENJOY IT STEVENSMITHART

for you steven smith i hate you so much

2009-11-06T15:56:00.004-05:00

i dont even care if you dont like this steven smith art who doesn't even have a website, you lame ass....

SO I'M DOING RESTAURANT REVIEWS AND THIS IS PART OF THE WHOLE THING ILL SHOW YOU ALL THE FINISHED PRODUCT WHEN ITS FINISHED WHICH WILL BE MONDAY EVENING. i'm doing drawings on location of the actual restaurant and then featuring an appetizer, a main course and a drink... this is from Pequeña my fave mexican restaurant evar... this is just the inking of pulled pork enchiladas and rice and beans, i'll be adding color to it this weekend...

NOW STFU STEVE

you dont even have to say it

2009-11-02T21:33:00.005-05:00

yeah i know its been a while. its been a hell of a whirlwind of a semester so far, and notsomuch in a good way but hey im getting by and doing what i need to do. enough of the "im stressed out venting thing" lets just cut to the chase and post some art!

here are some scans of drawings i've done in my scientific illustration class. my scanner is smaller than i anticipated it to be when i thought to scan these but i was already set to scan so i did it anyways so i apologize for the vignette-like shadows on the corners... so yeah!

skull of some unidentified animal

a dried lotus pod and an opened tangerine

my first homework assignment, couldn't find anything interesting to draw so i drew my eyelash curler

NEW WEBSITE!!!

2009-08-18T22:27:00.001-04:00

WOOOOOOHOOOOO

so i finally have a fully completed website with all the little goodies anyone could imagine. please enjoyyyyy

and again, i'd like to note that i am currently offering my web design services for free for those who inquire! im building my web portfolio and am taking any chances i get for experience. plz contact me if you are interested!

new project.. i have too many ideas for projects..

2009-08-10T15:23:00.002-04:00

so i always start projects and never finish, but here's one that i've started. im going to draw my way through my itunes. hm. so i started with alicia keys.. i've done adele and alanis morrisette but i think i will redo those. so here's alicia for the time being.

now that i look at it, her eyes are soo crooked. ugh. guess ill do her over again too

lack of updation

2009-08-06T23:40:00.002-04:00

okay so i've pretty much had to most unsatisfying summer of my entire life although it sure has had its wonderfully great parts. its just really been stressful and overloaded with adult things i dont want to deal with ever but i guess i'm getting old and shit happens.

so i've been working two jobs.. one in manhattan and one at home in greenport (the easternnn eastern end of the north fork of long island). so the two days i have off, i spend them traveling so it does not feel particularly like a day off ever.

today marks the day (hopefully) that our apartment is rid of bedbugs. but i shouldn't speak too soon, i always tend to jinx myself :\

okay so thats only two things, but its hard to put into words how SHITTY AND TERRIBLE it is to have bedbugs. i dont think anyone understands until they have them and pretty much have to deal with the whole situation by yourself. exhausting is an understatement. you cannot sleep comfortably until an exterminator comes (and getting one that is actually affordable is in itself a whole endeavor into darkness) and you basically have to pack your apartment up like you are moving... clothes in bags and have to all be washed, closets have to be EMPTIED completely, and all furniture has to be moved away from the walls and the beds have to be clear of anything so they can take them apart. and you have to do that twice (if you get a reputable exterminator) because the eggs do not get killed by anything in terms of the fumigation (which is most effective) so they have to come back for a second treatment to kill the eggs that hatch after a few weeks. and figuring out you have bedbugs is difficult. for months (yes months) me and my friends and my family baffled ourselves over my strange itchy welts thinking it was an allergy cause noone else that lived with me had 'bites'. guess what... not everyone is allergic to bedbugs.. so you can HAVE them and get BITTEN by them but not have any welts, so you could have a huuuuge infestation and not even know it. luckily (but not-so-much) for my i found a dead bedbug that confirmed that was the situation. one thing to know is that the landlord (if you rent) IS FULLY RESPONSIBLE no matter how the bedbugs got into the building. they HAVE to pay for the exterminator. and make sure they dont just "have a friend" come take care of it. because the last thing you want is to go through the painful process and then have to get someone else to do it all over again months later when you start to get bitten to shreds again.

okay so basically this was a bedbugs info session and i hope NONE of you in the world ever have to deal with this shit. lets hope that this is the only learning experience i have with pests and god almighty i cannot wait for everything to be back in order. sometimes i feel like things never really do get fully back in order, but i guess that keeps my on my toes.

in art news, im redesigning my website so it should be ready soonish.

AND I AM MAKING FREE WEBSITES FOR PEOPLE THAT INQUIRE DUE TO ME WANTING TO DEVELOP MY WEB DESIGN PORTFOLIO... SO PLZ LET ME MAKE YOU A SITE!!!

SHRINKY DINKS

2009-07-14T18:57:00.003-04:00

so i did my first experimenting with shrinky dink jewelry. and i must admit i'm pretty excited about it! my next endeavor is going to be a multiple finger ring of an octopus. oh babyyy

EDIT; i just realized that not everyone knows about shrinky dinks. basically its these sheets of plastic that you can color on with sharpies or colored pencil then you cut it out and stick it in the oven and it shrinks like 3x smaller than its original size and turns into a thick plasticky piece.. the duck was originally about 8inches tall so.. you can kinda figure out what it does. but its fun!

dreamy

2009-07-05T18:26:00.002-04:00

just a little sketchy sketch i did at the gallery on saturday when it was ssoooosoooo slow!

projects in progress!

2009-07-01T10:23:00.002-04:00

so i am working on a new project beginning today... and i'm hoping i would be able to do a show at the gallery i work at with the pieces i make. its kind of a surprise.. it's a big thing i'm taking on but it should be fun!

also, this friday is the opening at the gallery for "summertime". i have a painting in it and the opening is from 6-9, so if anyone would like to pop in, you should! there's some wonderful work there including two pieces from two of my friends. the gallery is Studio E on Front Street in greenport... even if you don't go to the opening, you should check it out if you're ever in/around greenport!

workin' workin' away

2009-06-25T15:31:00.000-04:00

so i'm working on a painting for a gallery show titled "summertime" so i decided because i love brooklyn summer time ever so much i'd do something about bk. but i didn't know what to do until i was waiting at ganni's pizzeria (best pizza in town, i swear) and it was nice and hazy and the sky just looked so beautiful above where the sun was setting juxtaposed with the tops of brownstones and their ornate decorative architecture, and a bunch of pigeons swooped in the sky silouhetted against the burning orange and pink clouds. then i knew it. so that is what i am painting but instead of painting the pigeons, i'm doing intricate cutouts on grey paper. so, here are some of the pigeons i have cut out already!

shopping list

2009-06-18T12:43:00.000-04:00

procrastinating at work. and i'm a bit stressed and exhausted, so i made a shopping list (apparently virgos like to make lists). it relaxes me. so then i wanted to draw. so i did. maybe ill just start illustrating my shopping lists instead of writing the words out. hmm

headboard sketch

2009-06-08T18:34:00.000-04:00

oi i wish i had more time to spend on these drawings. i'm doing a commission this week and then its goin hard on finishing the childrens book for my moms kindergarten class, that should be a lot of work (although i have begun it)

toodaloo

bored at worko.

2009-06-03T10:43:00.001-04:00

i'm always hungry. especially for salty things. sometimes i wish that i could draw a food and it'd magically become real because that would make me very happy. especially during times when the cafeteria at the building isn't open yet.

hungryhungryhungry

blahblahblah

2009-05-29T16:02:00.001-04:00

so i have been doing so much art lately i just havent been keeping up with my updating duties. eventually i will put them up. but for now im a big fan of late nights, waking up early, going for a run and taking a late afternoon nap. thats my kind of schedule

wow its been a while

2009-05-06T18:56:00.000-04:00

so, its been a very long time because i've been so damn busy with the end of the semester: lots of homework, moving around and trying to find someone to move into an empty room in our apartment. but today was my final survey. so ill post a picture of that. cause thats all ive got for ya right now.. hahah

the apOCTOlypse

2009-04-19T10:14:00.001-04:00

for my printmaking assignment, we had to do a reduction print about the apocalypse. a reduction print is where you use the same block to do every color and you start with the lightest color first, and then cut away where you want that color to remain and do the next one, repeat, etc. i did a five color print which was really laborious but i'm so happy with how it came out. i took the apocalypse and decided to do something kind of fun, but still morbid. i based the squid creature off of the idea of a Humboldt squid... these squid are very interesting yet not that researched sea creatures... they are so quizzical to scientists that they may just take over the world one day. mwahaha!

a plethora of fantastic thangs

2009-04-04T15:39:00.001-04:00

so i had to shoot out home to long island for a doctors appointment thursday night and i can't believe i was already back in brooklyn last night. eesh! well the weather by us was rather scummy but it made a for a gorgeous front yard panoramic! that is the sod field across the street and i love how it just seems absolutely endless. and on the left is this incredibly old and dilapidated barn that i hope they never knock down because its been there since i can remember and theres been a few barns that i loved that were knocked/fell down.

now, for another fun thing to add, i was walking home from the printmaking studio today and i came upon a crate of book in the garbage and oh my god was there a great selection. i basically took all of them, i left a history book (booooring). and i got home very excitedly and plopped on my bed and began flipping through, and out slips a polaroid picture! of very nutty looking people! hahahah i couldn't believe how a great dumpster dive turned into an even better find! woohooo

WELCOME FRIEND!

2009-03-31T19:30:00.000-04:00

so my bff andrea totally just joined the blogging community.
and she is a very talented and enthusiastic student of jewelry design at the fashion institute in new york citttaaayy! she is also my roommate and has made me many pieces of jewels that i love to wear and show off.

so... follow her! comment her! woohooooo

CLICK HERE

IF: poise

2009-03-28T10:11:00.001-04:00

yesterday morning was nice and relaxing, poised in the kitchen with a book and some tea. i had a very relaxing day of drawing and reading. today i have to go to the sculpture studio and throw 20 cylinders on the wheel for tuesday. oh joy! (click for larger images)

coney island parachute jump print

2009-03-27T10:09:00.000-04:00

so our first multiple-block assignment was to do a three colored landscape. we were showed a 'rainbow roll' (which makes me want sushi) but its a certain method of creating a gradient between colors by rolling both colors on the same brayer. so i made my sky fade into a lightblue/white color. i've always loved the silhouette of the parachute drop from coney island. i never knew what it was exactly, ive just seen it so many times driving into brooklyn, going to coney island and from seeing images of it. i never realized it was an actual ride at one point! it sure was a pain in the ass to cut out all the little shapes from the linoleum but it really paid off because i loooove how the print came out. i made a t-shirt too that my roommate wore yesterday. i have 10 prints, but some of the others have really bad registration, so i think im going to elaborate on those and draw directly on the print to continue making it an interesting image.

sweet yo

subject sketch books

2009-03-20T14:00:00.001-04:00

so i bought a bunch of sketchbooks and journals from kate's paperie a couple months ago and i got this pack of 6 little sketchbooks which all had different types of paper. one has vellum, the other has natural paper and there all different kinds and they're GREAT. so i decided i was going to make them subject books and draw certain kinds of things pertaining to the subject in all of them. i've started, and i've been working on it slowly.. i'm still trying to figure out other subjects i could do for them. (just to clarify, the 'trains' book is drawings of people i see on the subway or the train that i draw right then and there.)

IF: intricate

2009-03-11T11:15:00.001-04:00

here's some intricate houndstooth from a girl that sat in front of me in math class

more sea life

2009-03-11T11:03:00.001-04:00

i like sea creatures, what can i say?

familia primero

2009-03-06T17:31:00.001-05:00

this is for my most recent illustration assignment, we had to "tell a story about our family" and of course, food is involved with mine! i was chatting with my mom (who i talk to every day!) and i was really stuck on what i was going to do for this assignment and we were just talking about things that are pretty distinct in our family and as soon as she said the word "paella" a lightbulb just went on in my brain (the right side, because that is the creative side of the brain, hahah)

our family loves to eat. on my mom's side we're very spanish... like 99% at least. and we spaniards love seafood and meat and yellow rice (and who can omit sangria) and paella just combines all our favorites into one amazing dish that takes all day and lots of family to make. paella never ceases to bring family and friends together in our closely-knit crowd, even if some people just stop by to eat. i remember every "paella day" we had. i especially loved the ones in my grandparents/aunt & uncle's backyard when i was younger, we did the macarena before it was completely played out by the radio stations, and i always tried shrimp even though i didn't like them (but i do now!).

even on my dad's side, i can't remember anyone who refused paella. it's always been a thing that has brought us together, and i love my entire family tree, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, mom, dad, my brother Mike, and even those who are just as close as family minus the blood-relation, and i treasure each and every one of these people in my life.

sorry for getting a little sappy, but i hope they all know how much i miss and love them!

ending with one of my favorite sayings,
"Familia Primero"
... "Family First"

DWI: Do it With Illustration

2009-03-04T15:51:00.000-05:00

so last night I attended a lecture at FITnyc for $5. it was a panel of illustrators all in the business. one of them (christopher silas neal) was a professor of mine last semester, and i did some really cool things with him in that class. it was a great q&a, really informative about the business, and all over just really fun and interesting. i felt very inspired and educated about the illustration business after leaving.

new media

2009-02-19T13:35:00.001-05:00

so in my new media illustration class we are doing a flash animation. i am still in the middle of working on it, but i'll give a little screen shot just to tease all of ya.

and yes, of course there is an octopus in it. (would you expect anything less of me?)

jackalopes

2009-02-18T15:06:00.000-05:00

so, i haven't updated in a while, and i have plenty of new things to post, but i am lazy. so here is a picture i finally took of the jackalope i painted to andrea for christmas.

it currently resides on our living room wall above the television.

first illustration of the semester

2009-02-05T09:04:00.000-05:00

alright errbody, here is my first assignment for illustration of the semester. we had to do an illustration for the cover of time magazine and of course, it had to be about obama and what's next. mine is basically just showing that obama is going to have many influences and people trying to tell him what to do, i mean, he already does. so, yeah! here we go!

now i'm off to class for a critique on it, seeya

mixed media!

2009-01-24T15:43:00.000-05:00

so, the great thing about art school is that, even though you major in something, you have the wonderful freedom to take classes in something completely different from what you may be doing for the rest of your life. this semester im taking ceramics and printmaking.. and i've been in the ceramics studio quite a bit in the past week and so far this is what i've done:

we had to pick something out of nature and simplify it into basic shapes, and of course i chose a squid. so the first one is representing their internal beak where the tear apart meat and flesh for food and the second is representing their gills and where they suck in water. i guess itd be considered their nasal passages in a way. so yeah, these are done being shaped and we're going to glaze them, fire them, etc. so i'll post updates i assume

long time no bloggo also...ILLO FRIDAY: PALE

2009-01-17T10:38:00.000-05:00

well hello, long time no blog because i've been traveling so much! no time to relax and i've also been looking for a new job or two.

i was in long island for christmas, brooklyn for new years, pennsylvania the weekend after new years and then on the 7th i flew down to florida with my brother for a bit, then back on the 12th, brooklyn on the 15th for a job interview/concert and now i am in long island for a day then moving back into the apartment tomorrow! jeeeeez

the concert i went to on the 15th was ida maria, who is prob one of my faves because she is just so crazy and fun and wild. the show was great. she's norwegian but lives in sweden and has this great accent. she's sooo beautiful too- pale skin, blue eyes and dark brown hair. so here's my entryy for illustration friday, for once!

sayonara!

christmas presents

2008-12-25T11:56:00.001-05:00

merry christmas, happy holidays, all.

i was going to update today with all the work that i did over the semester that i hadn't posted up here yet in memorium of finals being over (which i did great on, four A's, two A-'s and one B- but it was math so its cool) definitely my best semester thus far.

because of my holiday laziness, i am not going to post all that stuff up, because, well i'm updating my website very soon i'm in the process of and all the new stuff will be there (and its going to be flash ooooOOOOooo).

so, i'm just going to post the artsy things i made for my parents and brother for christmas, which they all adored.

and i got an illustrated life by danny gregory which is an amazing book, and my fave illustrator is in there, tommy kane. i also got this sick urban art book from my brother which i spent about 2 hours flipping through this morning along with the pop up book mommy that maurice sendak did with matthew reinhart (see, pop up gods on my links bar).

so, here we go!

this first one i did for my dad, its an apron with his face looking all bad-ass on it. he is "the grillmaster" we all call him that and he shines so bright in the summer time. i also accompanied the apron with a t-bone steak.

this second one is a portrait i did for my brother of one of his best friends, Stu. Stu is one of a kind and I guess you have to really know him the understand the hilarious comedy in this portrait. he's still kinda funny lookin though

and this last one is for my mom. its this picture of my brother (which is my favorite photograph of all time) and i started painting it in oils like a year ago and basically abadoned it (like many oil paintings ive attempted) and she kept begging me to finish it. so i started new and fresh and did it over again in inks (a much more comfortable medium)
i may go back into it though

so, happy holidays y'all. i'll keep ya updated on the website.

fishy fishy

2008-12-06T10:22:00.000-05:00

as you've probably noticed, sea creatures are my thing. here's some more aquatic friends.

these are preliminary experiments for one of my assignments. the revised will have less hatching and more shapely ink splatters and blobs.

enjoy

pop up paper engineering

2008-11-28T21:03:00.000-05:00

so tuesday, i went to the studio of robert sabuda and matthew reinhart. if you do not know who these amazing men are... google!

my professor, kyle olmon (who is also a crazy talented paper engineer), works alongside them in their studio with a few other people i believe (simon is another guy who was incredibly friendly also). as some of you may know, i am taking a pop up class and i am thoroughly obsessed with it, and i am slowly realizing that i might want to do this forever and ever... and maybe make a career out of it.

unfortunately, robert sabuda was not at the studio when we were there, but matthew was and god he was so great! he was mad busy with deadlines, but he still was able to take time out to give us great advice on the art world and show us some of the many and beautiful things he does. a lot of his artwork is cut-paper collage, where he cuts out little pieces of colored paper to make his images... crazy and gorgeous!

so... i was extra inspired when we went to the studio and i am thinking about talking to my professor about interning there next semester. they were all so wonderful and i really think i would adore being able to get an experience like working next to some of the gods of pop up paper engineering.

so, here's what i've been working on for about 10 hours in the past two days! its part of my final project where i have to make a multiple piece advertisement. i'm doing the new york aquarium and this is one of my pieces.

i'm sleepy. so now i'm just working on drawing some goldfish for one of my illustration assignments. my semester is almost done. i'm freakin' out man!

december 17th is my final survey, if anyone wants to come... let me know! its on pratt campus... if you're interested i'll give you details!

IF_ pretend

2008-11-17T12:12:00.001-05:00

no time to write!

kb

booooring math classsss

2008-11-12T09:55:00.001-05:00

this is what happens. i was drinking grape soda, and i burped so that is why the little headline doesn't make any sense. i had been looking at this door every week in math class saying i would draw it one day. so i finally did. i like it. the bricks on the outer wall don't look too schnazzy but what are you gonna do?

IF: wise.... YES WE DID!

2008-11-05T15:04:00.001-05:00

I AM ECSTATIC. I AM SO HAPPY WITH OUR COUNTRY!

GO OBAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

nov. 7-

i thought i'd update a little since i'm posting this as my illustration friday entry (i think its very fittingfor the word 'wise')

this election was memorable and completely monumental, not only for the country but also for me. this being my first election (i turned 18 two years ago so last election was torture being too young to vote) i can't say enough how PROUD i am to have been included in this epic turn of history. being in brooklyn was probably everything i could have asked for. experiencing the eruption of happiness and success was first hand for me and god, was it beautiful.

my roommate and i were relying on updates being texted to me by a friend and my mom so we felt completely removed from what was going on, although we were very anticipatory. we were laying in our beds when at 11:00 we heard screaming and we listened and realized everyone was yelling "OBAMA!" so we went onto our front stoop and oh my god it was amazing. people just pouring out of their houses and yelling and cheering. we put some shoes on and walked through our neighborhood cheering and screaming with everyone. cars were honking people were hanging out of buses... i have never once walked down a street where every single person was beaming ear-to-ear.

i'm still in shock, pretty much. i get goosebumps all over when i remember that this change is coming and my doubts about this country are completely diminished.

the day after the glorious win, i was emailing with my dad and i said that i've never been able to say i'm proud to be an american without feeling corny and cliche, but hell, i am so proud to be an american under barack obama.

new stuff on kbdotcom

2008-10-25T13:07:00.000-04:00

sorry i haven't updated/done Illustration Friday in a while.. i have this week's i just need to get to a scanner to upload it!

in other news, i've updated my website with four new pieces:

"Why I Hate America" assignment. I really hate how news is 90% terrible with a sprinkling of happy little things.

"Animal, Vegetable & Mineral" acrylic and ink

My exploding head of sea creatures

Illustrated for the poem, "boy boxers" (sidenote for my mother, no i didn't write this poem hahah)

Plaid loose

White fitted

Prints, all a souvenier really

Every night, every rendezvous,

Clearly siphoning his wardrobe.

Every time you wake up in someone's bed.

Every time you are in someone's BVD's.

Bring them home. Wash.

Give them back?

In front of everyone.

AU REVOIR

IF_strings

2008-10-15T10:25:00.001-04:00

really liked this one this week, i was feeling a bit tangled, but this past weekend was very enjoyable so i'm feeling a lot better about things.

i did this on friday, sorry for the delay of posting! but this weekend my roommate andrea and i are throwing an 80's theme party! woohoooo

THIS ENTRY IS DEDICATED TO SEAWEED, REST IN FISHY PEACE, LITTLE DARLING

IF_sugary

2008-10-08T09:44:00.000-04:00

I AM SEEING BECK TONIGHT. I AM SO VERY EXCITED

here's my IF entry:

quick and fast, i'm awfully busy, like usual so it's nothing spectacular!
but it sure makes me feel like i'd die for a cupcake

mount zion cemetery

2008-10-04T12:47:00.000-04:00

so, like i mentioned in the last post, i wanted to go to mt. zion and i finally did. boy oh boy was it a hell of a long trek, but it was so amazing. i am not a spiritual person AT ALL but i couldn't help but be a little taken aback by the sheer beauty and sadness of this cemetery. i took a roll of film and i'll post those at some point but here are two digi photos i took. the lighting was absolutely GORGEOUS!

you can see the empire state building, cool, eh?

ugh the sky was just sooo fantastic.

IF_ packed

2008-10-01T10:35:00.000-04:00

usually the subway is much more packed than this at rush hour...

the left side is just a doodle from math class. i prefer drawing to golden ratios.

and here's just another sketch from my book, andrea's tea bag looked so nice and was just begging for me to draw it..

has anyone driven over the Brooklyn Queens expressway and seen the enormous cemetery? well i've been dying to go over there and take some photographs, i finally found out what cemetery it was and i'll be taking a trek there sometime soon (hopefully!)

have a good week! happy october...

IF: clique

2008-09-24T11:21:00.001-04:00

here is my quick little sketchie for IF... haven't really had much time to put a lot into my IFs... and you can check out my website to see why! i posted three new illustrations on my 'illustrate' page...

www.katebaldwin.com
check it out!!

but here is my idea of 'clique'... i try to avoid williamsburg as much as possible!

au revoir

IF: island

2008-09-16T12:18:00.000-04:00

so, still no internet at the apartment.

i really wasn't too inspired this week by the if word... but i happened to doodle this with 'island' in mind during my idea of sustainability class.

i'm just stopped by ABC to pick up my check, but i've gotta get back to brooklyn for class.

IF: clutter

2008-09-11T10:51:00.001-04:00

i wish this wasn't so late! but i've been going crazy this past week, and i finally was able to finish inking this morning and since i have no internet, i quickly scanned and uploaded on my break during my illustration class.

as i mentioned before, no internet! this scene was when the verizon technician came for the SECOND time and didn't fix anything either. but i had to pile all of my crap that has collected after the first week of class and plop it on my bed, so i quickly sketched it and cleaned it later.

well, i have to get back to class!

oh! and i dyed my hair dark dark dark dark chocolate brownnn

seaweed, sing to me

2008-09-02T13:04:00.000-04:00

here is my illustration friday memories entry:

as a kid, i had so many fish i probably couldn't count on my fingers and toes. this is seaweed, our newest addition to our apartment, my roommate and i just got him yesterday and he is such a sweetie. he's named seaweed after our favorite boy from hairspray.

in other news, my website has finally been updated! there is an actual website there instead of an 'under construction' page! hooray!
katebaldwin.com

classes have begun

2008-09-01T11:21:00.000-04:00

so classes started yesterday! i am so excited for this semester because i have lots of awesome and intriguing classes to look forward to. the only thing that sucked yesterday was that my first class of the semester was a science class. even though it was an academic class i still got some drawing done! there was a fabulous photo of some scientist or mathematician (i am assuming) and his nose was just begging to be drawn.. so here it is!

(this is actually posted wednesday, i just backdated it so my IF entry would be topmost. i'll move it when friday passes)

nausea

2008-08-28T14:26:00.000-04:00

so i had a little spurt of energy this morning! these are some cats i drew up in may and i have been planning on painting them for my supervisor at abc to thank her for all the things she's done for me.. i finally got around to it!

illustration friday: ROUTINE

2008-08-26T10:47:00.001-04:00

I'm not good at routines... but if i had one it'd probably be this!

panoramics are c00l

2008-08-25T21:52:00.000-04:00

i like to take panoramics with my camera. i like to make them. here is a recent one from regina spektor at mccarren park pool:

here is a larger image of it:
click here

soon i will post my illustration friday submission for routine
i just have to scan it and cross my fingers i have internets!

i have terrible allergies so i am going to sleep now, au revior!

if: DETACH

2008-08-21T16:07:00.000-04:00

it was a rough day at work...

and this is as far as i got. if i continue, i'll update.

i like cutting things, wearing black, and hating life

2008-08-19T14:26:00.000-04:00

okay so since one of my co-workers left his x-acto in my office i can't help but cut little things out. one of my latest little time passers has been cutting out words. so... cool!

ps thats a little bunny eyeball in the 'o' in phenomena

hiii

2008-08-14T12:54:00.000-04:00

doodly doodly doodle

thanks ollie's for a delicious chinese feast

ps i dyed my hair last night. i now have reddish brown low lights. cool mang

post happy

2008-08-13T16:05:00.000-04:00

okay, so i'm posting a second time today. but this is my medusa that i've been working on (rather slowly) for the past week or so. cool mannn

the art blog

2008-08-13T11:39:00.000-04:00

figured i should make a blog cause it's the trendy thing to do... and i'm a very lazy website updater... and not everyone can comment on coroflot.

here's my first post for illustration friday

SAIL