by Patsyfox on June 19, 2012
Yes I can make it there, and here I am, in the fabulous and so-far-temperate New York City.
Call me crazy, but it seemed like a great idea to end a year of triple-shift designer-job/illustrator-job/teacher-job with a wee trip abroad to meet one of my illustration heroes, join a couple of New York fashion drawing groups, check out some incredible exhibitions, hang with Jaclyn and generally chill.
Admittedly so far I haven’t seen far past the cafes of the Lower East Side, but it was a good start at Cafe Gitane, far better than today’s brunch at Moby’s Teany Cafe, where I made the mistake of forgetting that he’s a dedicated vegan, and everything on the menu is vegetarian, though the names on the menu suggest otherwise. My ‘turkey wrap’ turned out to be made from something tasting more like turkey droppings – truly the worst thing I’ve eaten since the meal on the Qantas flight over. How can honey chicken smell like formaldehyde??
None of it matters – tomorrow I meet New York’s best illustrator – stay tuned…
by Patsyfox on June 9, 2012
Given that Melbourne seems to have settled into a long wet & cold winter, what better to do next Friday night 15th June than check out the Illustrators Australia A3 print show opening? All prints are signed and for sale (including the two above), and it’s a great chance to bag yourself a bargain. Illustrators Australia is a collective of some of Australia’s best illustrators of all kinds. And there’s wine!
by Patsyfox on June 3, 2012
If you, like me, believe your cat is the prettiest/handsomest/cutest/most charismatic cat on the block, then get your camera out and start snapping toot sweet. United Bamboo are talent-scouting for their 2013 cat calendar, and you have just days to get your puss in on the action. Oh and did I mention the shoot is in New York? You can post your picture on their Facebook wall or tweet it to @UnitedBamboo with #catclub.
Check out your competition so far here, and get a feel for the work below.
by Patsyfox on May 27, 2012
The leaves are almost finished falling from the Melbourne trees and winter will shortly be upon us, but the Patsyfox Drawing Salon Super Sunday Sessions are just hitting their stride.
Today’s second installment explored gouache paint, a medium that generally has its way with me. Until today that is. I have the lovely and learned Ms Tania, an RMIT colleague and current Patsyfoxer, for inspiring this exploration. You’ll see why today’s stars of the salon are also thankful for the idea if you take a look at the fabulous work they produced, here.
For mine, a hurried demo looks like the one below, and a very slightly less hurried version above. Makes me wonder why I continue to slave over drawings when distracted doodles are more appealing!
by Patsyfox on May 17, 2012
For a multitude of reasons, May is not my favourite time of year. Daylight that seems to last an hour, mornings too cold to get out of bed… And now I have the departure of Jaclyn, lost indefinitely to Old Blighty. Thank god for the autumn leaves, and the fact that I’ll be joining her in New York in a month!
So while I plough through the mountain of work that stands between me and JFK, Jaclyn is already setting the world on fire, beginning with an exhibition in NY featuring one of her paintings. Some very lucky New Yorker is going to get to have this on their wall. Jealous much? Yes I am.
by Patsyfox on April 25, 2012
This was the sight a couple of Fridays ago, somewhere around 4am after 3 bottles of red (shared, natch) and many hours of spinning vinyl from JD’s very excellent collection. Aside from the warm familiar sounds of the scratches and dust, there is simply a better feeling to be had from slipping a record from its jacket and carefully placing the stylus on the correct track. It also serves as some sort of sobriety test, which was clearly ignored by both of us.
In any case I headed to Saturday’s Independent Record Store Day with renewed enthusiasm to expand my already pretty fabulous vinyl collection, armed thoughtfully with a shopping list. Alas, Polyester was pumping and filled to the brim with shoppers cooly (read: imperceptibly) grooving to the tunes supplied by the RRR Breakfasters, and when I did squeeze my way to the racks, none of my list were in stock. Egad!
With the money burning a hole in my pocket, I slipped across to Sheila Vintage to say a little hello to the hotness of Cindy and Emma, and departed Cinderella-style with a perfectly fitting pair of 1950s snakeskin heels.
Disappointment averted in record time.
by Patsyfox on April 14, 2012
Why sit around wondering where summer went when you could be learning the very fine art of Fashion Illustration?
The new term of classes at The Patsyfox Drawing Salon begin in a little over a week on the 24th April, and there a just a few spaces left – why not make one yours? Haven’t picked up a pencil since Friends was still in production? I can fix that. Used to be pretty artistic but think you may have lost it? I can tell you, you haven’t.
Check out some of the supremo work of students past and present in the brand new student gallery, and prepare to be impressed.
by Patsyfox on April 6, 2012
My history of disappointing (in the chocolate sense) Easters has been documented before, and yet I approach this one with buckets of optimism. Why? Because this time I left nothing to chance and filled my bags with self-supplied Easter treats. If the Easter bunny finds me then it’s just icing on the (chocolate) cake.
Have a great and chocolate-filled Easter, I suggest leaving a sign out for Bugs.
by Patsyfox on April 1, 2012
What is it that makes almost anything more desirable than something you have to do? Even when that must-do is something you love to do! Is it a form of rebellion on some level? God knows I hate being told what to do (insert sheepish I’m-not-that-hard-to-get-along-with-really face). I even counsel my students regularly on how to avoid procrastination! (If there was a god he’d definitely strike me dead for that hypocrisy.)
Sigh. So I have spent another weekend supposedly working up a storm but in reality have fluffed my way through 48hrs of prime productive time. Which, if it’s true that we are what we do not what we say, makes me a professional fluffer.
by Patsyfox on March 18, 2012
Doing one thing at a time was never my speciality, which is why after switching to the single track of illustration for a few years, I find myself burning the career candle at both ends again being both designer and illustrator… And did I mention teacher??
You can hear me, along with some other genuinely interesting laydees including Rebecca Gully, Pene Durston, and Nyssa Marrow, speaking on a discussion panel tomorrow night as part of the L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival event put together by the Hand Eye Collective. You can see some examples of our work, while we discuss our design practice and no doubt stray in every which way direction from the topic and then back again. Audience participation expected of course!
The Order of Melbourne, 6.30pm Monday 19th March. FREE.
