When Fancy Strikes

»So… I’ve been doing a little blog maintenance. I’m so new to blogging I didn’t know you could change the banner image and some other things. As I am also getting used to posting, I will be prettying things up to make my page a little more welcoming and homey.

I met up with a friend this past weekend to get some blogging advice and one of the big things I took away from our chat was to keep my posts shorter. This will be a challenge as I can be pretty long-winded and I get really excited about things so that also keeps me talking. Anyways I will be working on that.

Vogue-Inspired Drawing

»I wanted to share a few things about one of the ways that I get creative inspiration. I challenge everyone else to do something similar for yourselves. Vogue magazines inspire me. Maybe that’s cliché? It has been a long-standing, consistent source of new, interesting art, fashion, and stories about the world. My favorite parts of the magazine are the ridiculous pictures of clothing that no one in their right mind would wear on a daily and the articles about people in other countries. I live in those other countries and dream in the crazy clothing through Vogue. As the above drawing represents, along with many more in my sketchbooks, the explosion of interesting pictures in the pages inspires my art.

One of my favorite articles is about a woman who started a company selling high-end fashion through the Internet all over the world. She understood the power of selling to women and how good we are at spending money on luxury. [Well, maybe not me. I’m still a poor-just-got-married woman.] Net-a-Porter is headquartered in London and was founded by Natalie Massanet, who just made $76 million selling her portion of shares in the ten-year-old company.

·Now I understand this isn’t the typical story of most entrepreneurs around the world, but it’s still very cool·

»My take-aways from this story and how it affects my new project with Kiss Kreativ:

• Following an instinct is risky but worth it
• Originality is something to protect and encourage
• Women will spend a lot of money on something with a notable brand attached to it
• Don’t underestimate beauty
• Even when other people tell you it won’t work, keep on it