Scarves and Stories

Wednesday, December 21, 2011


How will I reconcile the narrative with the decorative? Fashion and picture books? My heart says 2012 holds the answer!

Thanks for art encouragement today over coffee, goes to my dear art school roommate, trusted critic, fellow fashion (mini) lady, Elizabeth. Though she is fabulously making waves in the retail–visual world, she has no web presence I can link you to! She makes visuals for Madewell look fantastic all over the U.S. and could kern the heck out of your typography class. Tomorrow we bake cookies together from dawn to dusk in her old fashioned farm house! Wishing you sweets and merriness.


I'll leave you with my favorite "Virginia" bit from Francis P. Church:

"...there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.
No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood."

6 comments:

martinealison said...

Je vous souhaite de joyeuses fêtes et tous mes voeux pour 2012...
Très joli croquis,une jeune femme toute mystérieuse...
Gros bisous

Hannah B. said...

Oh, honey! I could not be more in *love* with this painting. Tell me you will make a print I can hang beside my vanity. Please?

Jessica Holly said...

I love it!

Phyllis Harris said...

How will you "reconcile the narrative with the decorative? Fashion and picture books?"
I think you did EXACTLY that with your "Audrey" book and even in "I Had a Favorite Dress"! Maybe there will be more perfect projects like that in your future or something so amazing that you haven't even thought of it yet! ;) Here's to figuring it out in 2012. :) Keep up the great art, Julia and Happy Holidays! You really are an inspiration to so many.

Sarah Jane said...

your high contrasts are my fav. THIS is my fav. LOVE that blue and orange!

Annie said...

Ditto what Phyllis said!! Looking forward to seeing what you create in 2012 :)