♫ #Music Monday Playlist

Paolo Nutini - Candy

Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar

Melody Gardot - Your Heart Is As Black As Night

Thievery Corporation - Le Monde


Top Photo via the all around extrodinary artist that is Dennis Hopper. May you rest in peace.


And Thank You to our dear Soldiers for all that you do for us. I hope you are all enjoying your Memorial Day here is the States.

Happy Summer

For me this long Memorial Day weekend kicks off Summer officially.. My happy season ;) I will be adding to some barbeque fun and party for my little one who is turning 7 on Sunday. Love you my sweet girl!
Have a great long holiday weekend with your friends and family. xo

top photo via etc

♫ #Music Monday Playlist

Photo © Leigh 2010

Julee Cruise - Summer Kisses, Winter Tears

School of Seven Bells - Half Asleep

Thieves Like Us - Your Heart Feel

Shanghai Restoration Project - Miss Shanghai

PROJECT DIVERSITIES PART II *** BY THE ILLUSTRATORS

Hello my friends :) I wanted to share with you the completed online exhibition I worked on for Off The Rakk. Just click on the bottom right to view my work along with all of the other amazing illustrators involved. Here is the background on what the project is about in two parts.

Project Diversities is a fashion/art project run by Off The Rakk Global Network™. Weve selected illustrators - all with their strong and distinct trademarks, to create artworks out from the same object/ model. All selected artists/ illustrators is asked to join because we think that they all are gems, passionate and very talented artists who have something special to share.

These are the invited illustrators:

NINA HUNTER (LEEDS/UK)
LISELOTTE WATKINS (MILAN/ITA)
DAVID DELIN AKA 28162 (NANTES/FRA)
CAPULET (TOKYO/JPN)
SANDRA SUY (BARCELONA/ESP)
SARAH WATTS (ATLANTA/US)
LEIGH VINER (DENVER/US)
MARIANNE L. GOLDIN (SEATTLE/US)
ERIC ANTOS (SAN FRANCISCO/US)
MAGDA ANTONIUK (POLAND)
WANMHOPE ARTIST (PARMA/ITA)
COCO

Together with fashion photographer Di Makawi they've been working intensively using archetypes as inspiration for Project Diversities. These archetypes are chosen to portray different aspects of the model and her personality, showing multiple diversities. The pictures/images are categorized by their unique archetype and the selected illustrators have been able to choose, work and illustrate from 16 personalized archetypes.
PROJECT DIVERSITIES PART II the illustrations from all artists chosen.


Thank you again Off The Rakk and Jacy Varisha for including me in this project :)

"Grove"

© Leigh 2010

A new print for you in my Etsy shop and an adorable pot of herbs, love those little chalk signs! Via Black*Eiffel.

Shanghai on my mind

I think I definitely need to plan a trip to Shanghai someday, isn't this such a beautiful view taken by Garance Dore on her recent trip to Shanghai for Dior. I cannot stop staring.

I hope your week is going well, I am almost done with a few commissions that I think are turning out wonderful and it is a perfect day to be working on them with a bit of thunder and rain.

♫ #Music Monday Playlist

The National - Sorrow

Lena Horne - Love Me or Leave Me

Nouvelle Vague - This is not a Love Song

Holden - Madrid

Photo via we seek the truth

Weekly Inspiration

Artist Rosson Crow

Alexi Lubomirski

Benjamin Alexander Huseby

Sticking to the basics, design inspiration The Row

David Lynch for Dior "Lady Blue Shanghai"

Thank you to Jennine over at The Coveted for posting this David Lynch and Dior collaboration. If you have been reading my blog for awhile you know he is definitely one of my top inspirations.. I could go on and on. So watch for yourself, love Lynch, love the bag ;)

Also I know I am behind again on posts, just been really busy behind the scenes, but soon I will be back on track.

Hope your weekend is going well!!

xo

♫ #Music Monday Playlist

William Fitzsimmons - So This Is Goodbye (Pink Ganter)

Trentemøller - Sycamore Feeling

Depeche Mode -Halo

Flunk - See Through You


It has been an amazing few days, A reconnection with family members that I have missed so much and a perfect Mothers day spent with my sister eating crepes, drinking mimosa's and enjoying the warm spring day...

I love you Mom for all that you do and I thank my beautiful daughter for making each day that much brighter xo.
I hope you guys had a wonderful Mothers day weekend!! :)

Photo via Fashion Indie

"Mayya"

© Leigh 2010



A charcoal that I did today of model Mayya Skipchenko. I also just listed a print version in my Etsy Shop for you. It has been awhile since I have pulled out the messy wonderful pastels and charcoals that I enjoy working with, so expect many more of these soon..

Hope you all had a great day, I am still trying to work on a early to bed early to rise schedule (tough) so I am off to finish my wine and take a warm bath.. Talk to you soon.

xo

♫ #Music Monday Playlist

Crystal Castles - Celestica

Edith Piaf - I Shouldn't Care

Joy Division - New Dawn Fades

Lemon Jelly - Spacewalk


Photo via Cherry Blossom Girl

Illustrated Polaroid

Etsy

The final result of what I was working on, not quite the direction that I started out as inspiration from the previous post. I was just not happy with where it was going so I took it from one thing to another. I think I might actually do a series of fashion/street illustrative Polaroid's ? In this piece I used the adorable Jessica Stam and a touch of the pattern from Diane Von Furstenberg's Bonnie Pinup.

I hope you guys had a wonderful weekend. I am beyond excited for this week ahead as my sister who I have not seen in almost 6 years (beyond to long) will be here this week to stay with me.. xo yay!! See you tomorrow for Music Monday..