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Dr Suess Tribute

This is my piece for the upcoming gallery nucleus tribute show this Saturday.  I was very excited to be asked to participate along so many other talented artist to pay tribute to the inspiring world of Dr. Suess.  I choose to do a piece inspired by "Green Eggs and Ham."  I can relate to the main character who stubbornly refuses to try something new, as I grew up as an incredibly picky eater myself, and didn't discover real food until my adult life.  Now I love trying new things!  So thanks, Dr. Suess, & too bad it took me so long to understand the moral of the story & sorry mom for not eating anything, and sorry this looks nothing like you.  There's no control z with ink.

anyway,
Here's more info on the show, http://www.gallerynucleus.com/event/311
if you're in the area go check it out!

Whitney + New Blog

here's my whitney houston caricature

 

Rest in Peace Whitney Houston

Drew this one last night while watching the bodyguard. I love watching and drawing her singing.  So much power!  I want to do more to try to do her justice & try to capture this, but this will do for now.

Also, I got a new blog.  I'm still keeping this one...but for caricatures I'm transitioning over to tumblr so I can have a clean collection of just those in one place.  So find me over there @

http://lindseyolivares.tumblr.com/

dogalocity romance

 This is inspired by a moment at my friends Stan and Emily's wedding.  The lighting at the reception was so beautiful and wanted to do a little lighting piece...but, I replaced them with dogs..hehe.  These are the dogs I live with.  They are beautiful respectful poets and divas called Tigger and Kiki.  Which reminds me...check out dog blog http://tigalocitybabadoo.blogspot.com/  They are my roomate..stevie lew's dogs, and we draw pictures of what we think they are doing when we go off to work.  This francesco also participates...as the unofficial doggy sitter and friend of kiki/tiggress

What If? Nucleus Micro Show

When I got an email from Gallery Nucleus about participating in their "What If?" Themed Micro Show I was super excited because I was immediately inspired to do a series of....Annoying what if questions I used to ask my mother!  As a child I was always trying to figure out different scenarios in which my mother would love me more than my sister.  She insisted she loved us, "even steven"...but every now and then, Brooke slips up, and I can tell...I'm the favorite daughter.  ;) 

So if you're in LA come check out Gallery Nucleus-The Opening Reception is December 10th, 7-11 pm, and the show runs though Jan 2nd.  It's comprised of small artworks from various artists working in the animation business.  mine are all 5x5 Ink & Colored Pencil.
Check out the link for more info:
http://www.gallerynucleus.com/gallery/exhibition/300

In the 90's

So I've been illustrating my life.  These paintings are less literal...but my family did have a lot of dinners at the parkway plaza mall food court and there's something I really like about family scenes in specific/non traditional places.  With these I was just trying to capture a certain quality to some of the memories I have.  This is the start to my 90's mall series.  I want to explore further, really pushing the 90's inspired palette.  I've been looking at pattern in the clothes, pattern/material in surfaces for 80s 90s mall department store designs, and the brilliant magenta/purple/turquoise/blue palettes from movies like Pocahontas/Goofy Movie/Little Mermaid/Aladdin.  I plan on doing more images exploring some of the stuff in my head and seeing how I can caricature this time, and my perception of this time...when everything was simple and magical..and I was new at life. 

art reviews

Here's a bunch of sketches from our art reviews at work...the faces of the madagascar 3 art team

Brendens

Here are a ton of brendens and 1 steve phillips
I did these a little while ago and forgot about them...I was organizing some files and ended up coloring them in...sorta relaxing.

Priscilla & cafe people

Future short

I'm working on a short with these children.

sisters

I'm still working on illustrating my life...have some ideas in mind.. but in the mean time just doing some designs.  this is me and my big sister Brooke.

@ tartine

figures

more long poses!

Art Reviews

H is for Heartbroken Hippo

sometimes I think about finishing this alphabet book I started in school.  It'd be nice to finish what I start but I always seem to get sidetracked with different ideas.  I see 1 of 2 things happening with this book, 1 is that I work on it and bang it out, and the other option is that I finish it by the time I have a kid, and then I can read this book to the kid.  This of course buys me plenty of time.  I'd like to do a short, maybe someday I'll post some art I've done for that...For now you get a sad hippo. 

Another figure