Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Daily fashion illustration #63 or Circus


The Circus is coming to town!
Shanghai is a daily Circus itself - inspiring, insane, colorful, full with contrasts, life, joy, fight, pajamas, smells, funny animals, shifu's, ayi's.. Best gallery you can exhibit your work...
Full story:
http://www.ladiga.com/#2512363/CIRCUS-Fashion-illustration-project

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Daily fashion illustration #62 The Circus Is Coming To Town!

Just spent two days on my bike in Shanghai posting my new series CIRCUS posters. It was great fun as Shanghainese people where quite interested, helpful and very often funny ( especially kids) Often I was asked where Circus is going to perform. I think Shanghai it self is the best gallery you can find in this city as the background is very often mind blowing. Who needs white gallery walls when you have so much better frame and public to show you work.

Monday, December 19, 2011

Daily fashion illustration #60




Illustration # 60. Wow, good. 60 is a good number and today is a good day ( nothing to do with Korea). And, wow, I am so lucky with my friends, those who care about you will stay with u no matter what. Had a lovely quick dinner with my french friends Marine and Marie and I might not see them for a while, but there are friends that stay with you no matter what, and then there the ones who pretend to be your friends and they come and go and they come and go and u don't give a s••• as life is simply too short for this.
“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

Friday, December 16, 2011

Daily fashion illustration #58

There are days i hate this city so much...I could never imagine living in such a big city like Shanghai and feeling lonely. Shanghai is like a bubble, big fake bubble..

Friday, December 9, 2011

Daily fashion illustration #56 or Fashion ≠ Art

Yesterday night at one of Shanghai legendary bars Y I had a conversation with one of western Shanghai based  artists - painter X. I have seen him every time i go to some exhibit opening, some other  artistic events etc etc. Always a bit dizzy with all-you-can-drink face as many so called Shanghai artists spend their lazy days drinking and getting wasted on a regular basis. But that's fine as booze here is cheep or for free and after selling a few artworks you can party like an animal. 
SO he didn't even bother to remember my name, constantly calling me Latvia ( as the name of the country i come from). But that's OK. What was not OK that he was sure that Eastern European woman in fashion can't be an artist. And fashion, well "fashion can't be art, WE don't accept you" Quite offending, hah? So answer to  - who is an artist who isn't was very clear for him ( even he has never seen my works nor I have seen his) - he was, i wasn't. He is exhibiting ( check - me too), he is selling his artwork ( check), he is published artist ( check). But still i wasn't. In his eyes my art was meaningless, i was lost and stereotype of a woman as i am blond. Wow. I didn't want to continue this conversation as it was quite childish but he had to add that he thinks that all those gallery openings he is normally attending are showing meaningless art, gallery owners were simply rich kids and curators were  hookers. So basically he was the only true artist in Shanghai.
Fine. I got home googled his website and here it was - childish meaningless paintings. I guess in Art Academy I studied for 10 years he would never pass entry exams, but he is an artist , he is a men, painter and from Western Europe. What a mind opening evening it was:D

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Monday, December 5, 2011

Daily fashion illustration #53

My markers are loosing color so I m trying to save the ink  and create a few more sketches using them. This one is called« C'est fini » and yeah, it's very seventies and yeah I am studying french at the moment as I find it's the most difficult and same time wonderful language.

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Daily fashion illustration #50

I am back! After almost one year break I v decided to continue with my blog. One of the reasons I stopped was lack of time to scan and retouch, but. But now i realised that it is not that important as ts is more like my diary not portfolio...
I am still in Shanghai, had some exhibitions, my drawings has been published in a books like The Great Big Book of Fashion Illustration by Martin Dawber, 
I am still drawing and want to share my fashion illustrations  with YOU! And I finally know what i want to do with my life...

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Daily Fashion Illustration #49

I think she looks like Liza Minelli. Media: markers.

Daily Fashion Illustration #48


So it's been a while. But I am still drawing and will continue this blog as often as I can ( maybe not daily, as I am superbusy) but hopefully more often. Great news - just took part with my illustration& photo prints @ exhibiton in London and one of my fashion design rabbit ( Revenge) photos are on http://www.dazeddigital.com. BTW I just updated my website www.ladiga.com. Happy New year!