4.27.2010: Pauline

Pauline: A recursive dress featuring a girl wearing a dress featuring a girl wearing a dress featuring—and so forth. I had a set of four tiny plastic bears when I was little that were covered in some kind of cheap velvety finish. One of them was named “Dainty” before I knew what the word meant—I simply liked the sound of it. I imagine those cat earrings would feel the same to the touch. Mesh dress with doubled (and tripled) mesh layers where the dress is recursive, or is that gimmicky? Heavily jeweled gloves.

(I just got back from Stumptown and boy are my stumps tired. Back on track this weekend.)

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10 Comments on “4.27.2010: Pauline”

  1. 1 Katorra said at 6:10 AM on April 27th, 2010:

    I like how certain elements are always relefected in your work…for intance bows and felines are always lingering somewhwere in the image…Love it !
    Katorra
    http://www.ondahanger.com

  2. 2 melina bee said at 10:35 AM on April 27th, 2010:

    were you in portland?
    this is such a wonderful drawing, I love your work so much. Oddly, I have always wanted a dress featuring bettie page style faces on it like this. Now I guess I will have to silk screen it myself since you’ve inspired me. melina bee

  3. 3 WANGELA said at 11:16 AM on April 27th, 2010:

    melina bee: I live in Portland, actually! I was tabling at the Stumptown Comics Fest this weekend–oh no, showing my true colors!

  4. 4 Anna said at 5:29 PM on April 27th, 2010:

    This is wonderful! I can’t wait to see what you create next!

  5. 5 Takeru said at 7:34 PM on April 27th, 2010:

    Great drawings!

  6. 6 Ganymede Girl said at 10:46 AM on April 28th, 2010:

    I discovered you through Style Bubble and I’m so glad that I did! I love your creations, the kitty earrings here are so good!

  7. 7 Hannah said at 1:36 PM on April 28th, 2010:

    Always love blue & black drawn hair, and the gloves are fantastic!

  8. 8 Jessica said at 5:11 PM on April 28th, 2010:

    Absolutely adore your work! Your illustrations are so crisp, so lovely, and your designs are out of this world. Can’t wait to see more…

  9. 9 clover said at 9:27 AM on April 29th, 2010:

    i saw your other artworks on your website, they are really lovely.
    for someone who has never been to art school you have a great sense of proportion! love your drawing style influences, very pre-war asian illustration with the crazy pop art style of today.

  10. 10 Bailey said at 4:08 PM on July 21st, 2010:

    The finish you mentioned is called flocking. It’s a type of velvet like powder that is applied to a surface treated with adhesive using an airbrush tool (though you can brush it on too.) A lot of craft stores sell flock so if you wanted to make those cat earrings it wouldn’t be difficult.

    By the way I love the idea of a recursive dress and am super tempted to make one for myself.

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