An Illustrated Fashion Blog by Angie Rehe

I like nothing more than a lazy blog post, and with the pace of this year not slowing down but accelerating, expect more of them. Enter yesterday’s demo drawing – a combo focus of mens fashion illustration and the joyful play of colour you get when working with coloured inks and pencils in a random and non-sensical way.  I think there’s something to this careless, meant-to-throw-in-the-bin approach to drawing!

What’s inspiring the joy?  Well besides everything, perhaps it’s the brand new digs of The Patsyfox Drawing Salon, now calling the splendiferous premises of Frankie and Swiss home!  Stay tuned for upcoming pics, or if you’d like to see them for yourself and spend a Sunday afternoon drawing, join us for this Sunday’s Super Sunday Session in Creative Fashion Illustration!  Have fun, be inspired, and go home with at least 2 drawings that’ll go straight to the pool room…

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You would have thought that the buzzfest that was this year’s LMFF would have calmed down by now, but no – The fabulous Bil Donovan has left me still buzzing after 3 weeks, and I hear from many of the Masterclass participants that I’m not the only one…

Sadly we had to turn away twice as many people as we could actually accommodate in this wonderful 2-day Masterclass held at the beautiful Abbotsford Convent, with the generous help of Illustrators Australia and Neil’s Art Store.  If you’re one of the people who missed out, or are now kicking yourself you didn’t have a shot, then don’t fear – I’m already working on the next ones!  Mail me to get your name on the contact list…

In the meantime, check out the pics below, and of course our beautiful film by Rebecca Rocks featuring our gorgeous model Courtney Flanagan (also a fashion illustration student of mine).  You can find it on the Patsyfox YouTube channel (watch out for upcoming tutorials), and currently on the Vogue Australia website.  Enjoy!

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I may have made a few comments recently about entering some sort of rehab phase/reducing the booze/saying no to fried finger food/etc.  Pffft, if you believed any of it then you really don’t know me at all.

The first 3 months of this year have done nothing if not earned me a giant slack-fest, so as I head north to Mum’s couch, be sure that my bags are packed with a year’s supply of wine and easter eggs.  Even better, a birdy tells me that Mum has not forgotten her lesson of a couple of Easter’s ago, has dutifully ignored my claims to being sugar-free, and has a decent pile of pretty eggs waiting for me.  Bless.

Happy Easter everyone, and remember:  Life is short so eat the damn egg!

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Being picked up this morning by the LMFF car and chauffeured to the airport where I waited like a puppy at the international arrivals door to pick up Bil Donovan.  Sitting in the back of said car looking through Bil’s travel sketchbook at his ridiculously beautiful sketches of his travels (highlight? Paris of course!) while pointing out the sites of Melbourne en route to his hotel.  Telling him how crazily booked out his Masterclass is next weekend, planning a trip together to my favourite art store, and dinner tonight at one of my favourite Melbourne joints.  Finding out the above pic, currently on show at the Metro Gallery “Lisa Barron 30 Years – Art in Fashion” exhibition has sold.  All these things make for very, very good times. 

And so will the coming week of LMFF events which will be something of a re-tox after this recent stint of sobriety-inducing overwork…

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Seems I have gold on my mind this week, though with the craziness of my work schedule, it’s felt more like yellow fever.

But now finally I’ve reached the golden light at the end of the tunnel – no less than 4 artworks have been delivered to Metro Gallery for Tuesday’s LMFF opening bash (official gallery opening Saturday 16th March 1pm – 4pm), and the car is packed and ready to rock at 5.45am tomorrow morning and head west to Golden Plains.  A weekend of hard core chillaxing and fabulous music is indeed like winning the gold trophy.  The only question left to answer is – could it really rain as predicted, and be 33 degrees?  Talk about rain on the Golden Plain…

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For anyone wondering why I’d be missing the first hour of the Pimp my M.U.F. opening tonight – i.e. an hour’s worth of drinking and socialising, it’s because I’ll be doing the very same thing at another venue, with a whole other set of my work on display.  Ah, to be in demand…

The lovely Cheryl Lin of Business Chic has been living out her Little Black Dress Project for the last year, and is celebrating its conclusion with an exhibition at Melbourne Central, as part of LMFF.  Not only that – she has also turned it into a book with the help of a Pozible campaign.  And what’s a book without illustrations, right?  Enter…ME!  The exhibition will feature poster-size prints of some of my illustrations, to be sold at a later date.

The only question is how I’m going to get from Melbourne Central to Bar 303 in zero seconds.  Watch this space…

Seen above (L-R): Chanel’s classic black dress dubbed “The Ford Dress” by Vogue in 1926, Givenchy for Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast At Tiffany’s, and Nicole Ritchie’s classy little number for her appearance in court.

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If you’ll be in Melbourne this Friday 1st March and nothing too important to do around 6-8pm, why not get yourself down to Bar 303 on High st Northcote, to the opening of this year’s Pimp my M.U.F. exhibition?

Appreciate the weird and wonderful ways that Melbourne’s artistic community has pimped out their ukuleles, and vote for your favourites (ahem – mine).  The exhibition is part of the Melbourne Ukulele Festival, and will be on show at Bar 303 until March 31st, after which time it will mosey on down to Art at Spring st, Melbourne CBD from 2nd to 3oth April.  Oh, and they’re for sale!

Check out more of the ukes on the Pimp my M.U.F. facebook page, and while you’re at it, why not check out the Patsyfox Facebook page, and show it some love?  You know you want to…

Psst, peek on Instagram (@patsyfox) to see alternative views, and work in progress.

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Purely in honour of The Monkey Men’s Rolling Stones tribute gig last night at the Corner Hotel in Melbourne.  They ripped that joint!

Very awesome gig and even better to be surrounded by people who find those songs as much fun as I do.  And who knew Tim Rogers would look that good with his shirt off!  Does he work out now??  I think I love him just a little bit more…

But note to the middle-aged guys in polo shirts reliving their youth:  Yes I can see you in my peripheral vision trying to catch my eye and motioning to dance.  The answer is no.  I don’t do polo shirts, not even on Ryan Gosling, and certainly not on a middle-aged dude who is drunk and can’t dance.  Enough said!

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Happy Valentines Day everyone!

I hope you get lots and lots of (insert your wish here).

I’d love to stay and chat but I have to get back out to the mailbox to wait for the postman.

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