tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-263507342024-03-19T00:15:57.268-04:00She Sure is Sketchy<center>showcasing the talent of Brooklyn Illustrator <a href="http://www.amberalvarez.com/">Amber Alvarez</a>: You've found your way to a sketchblog of fun,<br>great for kids, girls and the occasional guy who's comfortable with his masculinity</center>Amber Alvarezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14000116754897699222noreply@blogger.comBlogger527125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26350734.post-80910030331492192442014-04-12T06:57:00.004-04:002014-04-12T06:57:59.125-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3vMEThUzrQAol2S0sXsQWBfqj9d30N-yn5oLMy-HCGjYOutVKJWCAW6NY__mMwdm6Gy2o7CxSaI6ef8wOqliXRyI08ktM3QZnMRpzIPQNEhUL7if81H6aal4NfvfIsoi64NT1/s1600/AmberAlvarez.TreeKangaroo.Sketch.teaser.jpg" height="116" width="640" /><br />Sigh. Remember when I used to post here all the time?! Remember how awesome that was... WELL GUESS WHAT!?!? Now I post at <a href="http://www.shesureissketchy.com/">www.SheSureisSketchy.com</a> Come play!<br /><br />This particular peek in to my sketchy life <a href="about:invalid#zClosurez">can be found here.</a></div>
<br />Amber Alvarezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14000116754897699222noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26350734.post-12033000191755646352013-09-14T16:28:00.004-04:002013-09-14T16:28:53.999-04:00She Sure is {Moving and ReDesigning!}<h2>
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<br />Amber Alvarezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14000116754897699222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26350734.post-53982369803958395932013-08-15T00:25:00.000-04:002013-08-19T22:03:43.638-04:00She Sure is {Moving}<span style="font-size: x-small;">You can now find all your Brooklyn ramblings and pencil rants at </span><br />
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So let it be done.Amber Alvarezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14000116754897699222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26350734.post-23047756778920084562013-08-08T09:33:00.001-04:002013-08-19T00:23:58.981-04:00She Sure is {Sketchy}http://instagram.com/p/cwIPz5S8RQ/Amber Alvarezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14000116754897699222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26350734.post-57340942057154524962013-06-21T09:21:00.002-04:002013-06-21T09:52:47.581-04:00Survelliance<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Lately, in full game-design mode at job-job, I find myself people watching in earnest. This is my morning commute on the F. </div>
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<br />Amber Alvarezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14000116754897699222noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26350734.post-47588385448715657752013-04-15T06:53:00.001-04:002013-04-15T06:59:35.441-04:00She Sure is {Sketching Again}<div style="text-align: justify;">
Once upon a few weeks ago day, when it was just getting nice outside, the artist and the bosom friend, who is also known as "the running writer", ambled down one Atlantic Avenue in one Brooklyn neighborhood. They passed a little shop, just a <i>tiny</i> shop - and upon consulting with one another entered its doors. They wandered thru the wares. They sifted thru the stores, and then - it happened! The artist stumbled upon an object of magic!</div>
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Then a lot of things happened. Maybe the artist realized she'd forgotten her purse at a nail salon a few blocks away, and maybe the shop keeper was skeptical about the particular mysticism of a particular object, and maybe there was a seagull that chased the poor girl down her block while she carried the object aloft- but at any rate, soon the magical object sat upon the artist's studio table. After the artist had begun to recover from a cold and been to new jersey back and forth, and had a really intense dance class, and took a really long two day workshop at General Assembly and worked like a happy little coal miner at her fancy game designer job-job, the time came to test the power of the new-found object. It had its moment, and the artist pronounced it good. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Psssst.... Lately I've been thinking a lot about 'being nice'. </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1E44rjIChGFSSYVQmwxKIKo7oTsQ4bywyPtUDwfXGqR4mPW4JEbT3BKO4i72nCjZPfVlQbK8wjf0AJsxhn3N_khzfdA0Yunx8kS9z05cgq9os5VbI_gu_NwTaTfGzuKwQfQLJGg/s1600-h/Original+Watercolor+-+The+New+Girl+-+GOSSIP+DETAIL.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380838843015820962" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1E44rjIChGFSSYVQmwxKIKo7oTsQ4bywyPtUDwfXGqR4mPW4JEbT3BKO4i72nCjZPfVlQbK8wjf0AJsxhn3N_khzfdA0Yunx8kS9z05cgq9os5VbI_gu_NwTaTfGzuKwQfQLJGg/s320/Original+Watercolor+-+The+New+Girl+-+GOSSIP+DETAIL.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 258px; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 320px;" /></a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Last weekend I had the chance to go to an anniversary memorial service for a woman who knew me seven years ago when I felt like my life was falling apart. I had just started working at job-job days after ending a years long relationship. I felt like a shell of a person and everything felt overwhelming. I can remember most of my interactions with her, because they always coaxed me in to feeling <i>so</i> good. For hours after we finished a quick five minute chat I'd be calm with the expectation that everything was going to be grand. When I think about her now I am impressed at her wonderful <i><span style="font-size: x-small;">kindness</span></i>. This week I've been marveling at what a unique thing it is to be able, at the end of your life, and for years afterward, to be remembered as that one beautiful word, <i>kind</i>.</span><br />
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memorial service for Naomi with a keen sense that I need to try harder. I
need to be kinder. I am working on it - which is all we really have to
do in this life. As a health coach I am so lucky to be able to coach
people to be kind to themselves too - because that teaches me a ton too.</span><br />
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Amber Alvarezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14000116754897699222noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26350734.post-25172124842270291772012-10-17T10:40:00.001-04:002013-02-25T22:36:18.201-05:00She Sure is {Botanical} <div style="text-align: center;">
Last night I painted this Okra. </div>
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Amber Alvarezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14000116754897699222noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26350734.post-86775322291015665672012-10-02T13:34:00.001-04:002012-10-02T23:49:18.710-04:00She Sure is {almost drawing stuff}<div>
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Amber Alvarezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14000116754897699222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26350734.post-55393786155234767212012-08-06T10:56:00.002-04:002013-02-25T22:37:00.894-05:00She Sure is {Notetaking}<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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These are actually all applicable to my fulltime job. Lately I write stuff to my former self:<br />
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Dear Past Amber,</div>
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SEE? It was worth the wait! </div>
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- signed future Amber</div>
Amber Alvarezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14000116754897699222noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26350734.post-9025370038143722782012-07-29T18:46:00.001-04:002012-07-30T11:02:28.605-04:00She Sure is {Urban Gardening}<div style="text-align: right;">
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A few months ago my mom visited NYC for 24 hours. When she left, there were fond memories of manicures and Middle Eastern food and three miniature elephants, left behind as a calling card of sorts. I laughed and wondered what on earth I'd ever do with this tiny cast of characters. On my way out the door this morning they caught my eye as they marched across my copy of Michael Chrichton's Travels. I realized we had all been called to this higher purpose. Like some 1920 hot femme-conservationist I transplanted them in my satchel for a jaunty trip to my Terrarium class at Smith Street's By Brooklyn. They are taking to their new environment like champs.</div>Amber Alvarezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14000116754897699222noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26350734.post-19825054708781819802012-07-01T12:12:00.000-04:002013-06-07T07:04:56.171-04:00She Sure is {Sketchy} - A Return<div style="text-align: center;">
A few months ago I had a creative crisis that resulted in the symbolic breaking of a 4b pencil over my knee. I declared myself the un-artist. It was done in an eff-this-crap kind of way. <br />
Here's the thing -- the low down is this: <br />
IT IS THE BEST JOB IN THE WORLD UNTIL IT SUCKS<br />
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Two months ago it sucked. I was so OVER it. I stopped blogging, I stopped drawing. I still had to go to my totally artistic job-job. While there, in one of the more creative adventures of my life, (an irony not lost on my Pratt friends) I built a video game with an amazing team of people. Other than <i>that</i> I declared myself NONARTIST.<br />
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My dad (a <i>fine</i>artist) was rather supportive. However, he also managed to piss me off by laughing at me. <br />
--"Sorry, kid - It's too late. You're an artist. It's OK to take a break" <br />
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"NO! I am not taking a <i>BREAK</i>! I am DONE! I say who... I say when..." <br />
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Anyway. They were right. I was wrong. I'll blog more about this later. I'm actually a driven and dedicated artist who had a total meltdown. It might help my readers to know that that stuff happens even when you're not painting starry nights or sculpting vaginas -- and on that warm and fuzzy note...</div>
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Yesterday I went to the zoo. I innocently thought I'd maybe take a pen. Then I thought I might want to take some written notes or write a letter. I'd need some paper. Last Spring <a href="http://shesureissketchy.blogspot.com/2012/01/she-sure-is-getting-organized.html" target="_blank">Ashley Robison organized my studio to absolute dream perfection</a>, making paper oh-so-accessible. Fine. I thought I'd tip-toe in to that scary space I haven't been in since May. She'd mounted some hanging clipboards for me up against a wall. I reached in to the room. This way I didn't have to fully cross the threshold. I ripped a pre-papered clipboard down and scampered towards the Bronx with it. </div>
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It started innocently enough. There was this polar bear. He was a show off. <br />
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I sketched him without thinking about it. </div>
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Later, on the monorail, there were some deer. </div>
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We happened upon this expansive bramble of peacocks. <br />
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I watched them for a long time. So long, I absently doodled them on the edge of my clipboard. <br />
Nothing wrong there. Sometimes non-artists doodle! Whatever.</div>
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Then we hit 129th street. I thought, maybe I should just look at those sketches...</div>
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By the time we hit Carroll Street, things had gotten out of hand. Apparently I'm an artist, and I'm back. Expect more blogging.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">(Credit for All Photos Goes to April Alvarez, my kid sister who is more than actively shutterbugging her vacation in NYC).</span></div>
Amber Alvarezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14000116754897699222noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26350734.post-39169959728350555272012-06-04T14:53:00.002-04:002012-06-04T20:37:45.427-04:00She Sure is {Busy} - A New York Minute<div style="text-align: center;">
Lately when I hang out with the friends who I've <i>never</i> ever, <i>ever </i>(what's one more for good measure?) had comment on my blog. They nudge me with their feet and say, <br />
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"Hey! Why don't you do a New York Minute at She Sure is Sketchy anymore?<br />
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At this I usually put my hand against my forehead Disney Princess style and feign ennui. We all know that is a lie though. I am always way too busy to get bored. Also, as a kid I wasn't allowed to use the word because it was treated like a curse word in my house. In the third grade when Kellen Brade declared himself as such during an epically long spelling test I was truly scandalized. <br />
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So in absolutely exciting news this week I...</div>
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<li>Spent a blissed out morning with Rodin at the Met's sculpture garden </li>
<li>I did some weekend antiquing with my interior designer pal who is a
Pratt Grad and a Hawaii boy. Brooklyn won over Chelsea and we fell in
love with <a href="http://www.hollerandsquall.com/" target="_blank">Holler and Squall</a>. With a sign like this who
could blame us??</li>
<li>I hopped a train to the tail end of Brooklyn</li>
<li>Walked across the Brooklyn Bridge</li>
<li>Spent a simply perfect late evening with a best friend and a tall Tazo Calm Tea in the only soft and cushiony chairs at the Starbux off Pacific. You know in the second grade when there is only one swing available and you beat everyone to it? If so, you know you not only get to experience the exhilarating highs of near flying, but <i>also</i> the trodden faces of your sworn enemies (ie. the little girls who have mothers that do not force them to wear their hair in double braids). Winning that air conditioned nook at the coffee shop was like that.</li>
<li>A glorious holiday was spent basking in the glow of Coney Island<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<li>I tried to figure out when I had purchased the sunscreen I had on hand. Was it last summer or my trip to Hawaii.</li>
<li>I decided to apply it liberally and hope for the best</li>
<li>I nursed a burn because I bought it after I got back from Hawaii, to preserve an amazing tan, because it was not sunscreen, but rather suntan preserving lotion that is packaged to <i>look</i> like sunscreen.</li>
<li>I shook my fist at the sun. </li>
<li>I had a late night ballerina dance party in which I rocked out to Rob Thomas while wearing my polka-dot boxers and about eight yards of pink bubble wrap. I know it, my life is bliss. There are pictures, but they are not going to be seen here.</li>
<li>There was an amazing night that involved dancing in the rain on NYC's <a href="http://www.thehighline.org/" target="_blank">high-line</a></li>
<li>Followed by dinner at <a href="http://www.yelp.com/biz/sausage-inc-new-york" target="_blank">Sausage Inc.</a> </li>
<li>Then a deep dish dessert of Chris Hemsworth. Having never before belonged to the Church of Chris, I was shocked at how instantaneously I became a true convert. If you have not yet seen the light that is this magnificent specimen of a lightning wielding god that is this elder Hemsworth brother, you can read all about it in the words of <a href="http://brittanywarnock.blogspot.com/2012/06/chris-hemsworth-i-want-to-rub-my-face.html" target="_blank">Brittany Warnock</a>. She *ahem*... hits the nail on the head. </li>
<li>Later in the week I took back an iron clad rule I made for myself four years ago. In 2009 I vowed to never blatently lie to a man I am dating... I have kept that promise. However, I ask you, what was I supposed to do?!?! He asked if I'd seen the Avengers yet. He made it clear that he wasn't <i>that</i> in to seeing it. I blinked twice and I claimed that "I'd <i>heard</i> it was <i>good..."</i></li>
<li>I saw the Avengers for the second time.</li>
<li>On Saturday there was another date that involved Snow White and the Huntsman. I'm concerned that there's a running theme here... </li>
<li>I noticed that no matter the hotness of your date it is <i>impossible </i>to not fantasize about Chris Hemsworth at any time any physical contact is made in a week in which Chris Hemsworth is seen for any time greater than 30seconds. </li>
<li>I got distracted when a cashier's hand brushed mine while returning change. It's going to be a long blonde-god fantasizing week...</li>
<li>I saw Cruella Deville's much younger sister marching along Avenue of the Americas and just couldn't help but whip out my camera. I wish I'd caught her from the front, because she was awesome, but here's what I managed:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCocmk5qITtGzHbxVtPed_83-ZIuaGkIxp6UKg-P3K3h0Usi_NOVvAqTZ2Bi4y31t0drZNVsVX52WIElQqKWzxB-QKWWbd5T9g6IyKR3JHjmolmj_0HYGbHuyOc5MrNSsrgVZa/s1600/IMAG1207-1-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCocmk5qITtGzHbxVtPed_83-ZIuaGkIxp6UKg-P3K3h0Usi_NOVvAqTZ2Bi4y31t0drZNVsVX52WIElQqKWzxB-QKWWbd5T9g6IyKR3JHjmolmj_0HYGbHuyOc5MrNSsrgVZa/s640/IMAG1207-1-1.jpg" width="432" /></a></li>
<li>I had breakfast in front of the Flatiron before I headed to work. A new tradition for sure.</li>
<li>I got a major two degrees close to Rob Pattinson. An adorable co-ed was being phot-oggled by her much<i> </i>grandpa lover against one of the large landscaping boulders that they put in the street to create a little island of cafe tables on broadway and 5th ave. The mini mountains are there to keep you from being killed instantly by oncoming traffic. (You will instead be hit by rough and ready shrapnel from a taxi plowing into a <i>gigantic rock</i> and die in the hospital five days later<i>). </i>However, this will be the backdrop to your demise: <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu2Ni8BJOwDkDvadWBqFzIpJf_hMOLGmZbHBFI9y8oBEPtU8ZnRUYuz0hgvDqEDehTn61hW8bTXZkeNBMniEBMCutMclpk8bjqLU3sIT11YP0KOcpFPQNg2JQ1_7bLCxKcIolL/s1600/IMAG1236-1-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu2Ni8BJOwDkDvadWBqFzIpJf_hMOLGmZbHBFI9y8oBEPtU8ZnRUYuz0hgvDqEDehTn61hW8bTXZkeNBMniEBMCutMclpk8bjqLU3sIT11YP0KOcpFPQNg2JQ1_7bLCxKcIolL/s640/IMAG1236-1-1.jpg" width="554" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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I looked on as the young camera-ready girl went full on Lolita. She was more than comfortable pouring herself against a rock in a - "we-are-in-a deserted-waterfall-on-a-private-island-and-it-is-just-us-and-no-one-will-ever-see-these-pictures-because-we-love-each-other-too-much-to-betray-that-trust" way. I caught the eye of one of the only other girls eating their breakfast on the little island. We exchanged the look that goes with witnessing something that private in the middle of one of the most iconic parts of Manhattan. She giggled and rolled her eyes. Then I realized, "oh wait that girl is famous..". I was texting at the time and she reached up and put her sunglasses on and said "please don't tweet where I am? I just <i>couldn't</i> wear Spanx today." So I love Anna Kendrik forever and even more because she knows that girl was redonk and also that Spanx are too much.<br /> </li>
<li>I traveled to Soho where I shook down my brother's roommate with searching questions about the renter's market in Queens.</li>
<li>Then Karma got me. I crossed the Greene, where I almost fell when the delicate strap on my last Summer's afternoon heels decided it had seen one to many cobbled stones in its life. I almost biffed it, saving myself at the last minute. Just so you know, unless you're on the last crusade and heading over the invisible land bridge with Indiana Jones, there is no worse place to fall than SoHo. <br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFntFdEGgws" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV5kWVz7K-OhtBQulDEAiFcoGg1gnnpgebPFWuCKa7otZtDfV86LcqqFzFxWVaFok8WsrGVBxQhs6pugq-KbU77OD2Glr6ui8fCNePqOQYalKLz96rZmqUMbYhTZF3UmXwBtSY/s640/invisible-bridge_528_poster.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />It means you'll have to be smiled at. These aren't just any smiles, they are the curved and delicate lips-only half-smiles pf gorgeous amazonian women who tower over you. They would never be caught in last summer's heels.</li>
<li>Speaking of which, I have spent the last three months coveting my roommate's lipstick. She has been rocking a matte shade two tones pinker than her actual mouth, leading her face to look even more carved by Renaissance masters. </li>
<li>I marched myself to Sephora and two hours and 12 tries later walked on to fifth avenue just this side of <b style="font-weight: normal;">Masaccio.</b> </li>
<li>I spent a fantastic and nerdy AM in the BK-Town at PolyTech at a robot fair. It was great. Then we saw this, and it became the best thing that happened to me all week: <br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dy0fUBIoWiMxMvtjdouV26IGXulA7fGuxT6Y3MMKZWyakKrLJ41L8tqTtQ64_UVF7Hz1sIpql8Vzro' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></li>
<li>No. I still have not learned to take videos with my camera. I have my BFA in film. Give me a Forox and you'll see that I know what the hell I'm doing, but equipped with a cell phone you'll have to make do with my apologies.</li>
<li>The Duchess and I worked on planning a bachlorette party of epic proportions</li>
<li>I animated more blood and guts and gore at job-job, which I love.</li>
<li>I realized that I am at a time in my life where I don't really have to do anything I don't want to do if I don't feel like doing it. With that in mind: </li>
<li>I began crafting this little fish sushi that I fell in love with on l<a href="http://laughingsquid.com/an-amigurumi-fish-that-transforms-into-sushi/" target="_blank">aughing squid's eccentric blog</a>.</li>
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<li>I was gifted the best gift any girl can ever get by Nick, from the Cobble Hill Diner. He is selfless and wonderful and I adore him.</li>
<li>I grabbed my ratty copy of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Solitary_Blue" target="_blank">A Solitary Blue</a> and decided to kick off my Summer tradition of visiting Jeff Greene a tinsy bit early. I did it here<br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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There were of course a lot of other things that happened this week, but those were the highlights and my favorites. I hope the day is busy for you. Want to fill me in on your best thing? How about your worst? Maybe your funniest? Lemme know, k?</div>
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I woke up to see my twittersphere aghast at the passing of our darling Mr. Sendak. My twitter feed is alight with children's authors galore, NPR listeners in droves, and elementary school librarians en masse, so when your idol dies, of <i>course</i> you hear about it, but... <i>what do you say</i>?<br />
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The Christmas of 1987 my gift haul was about as tall as I was. There were toys to play with and crafts to glue and a million <i>things</i> that needed my attention. However there were also a set of two delicious books entitled, "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/What-Do-You-Dear/dp/0064431134" target="_blank">What do you do dear?</a>" and "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/What-Do-You-Say-Dear/dp/0064431126/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b" target="_blank">What do you say dear?</a>" I <i>specifically</i> remember laying across my parent's gigantic bed, basking in the sunlight while they read them to me and reread them to me and then PUHGLEEESE read them again! The thing is, I don't think they really minded that very much, because these books are absolutely brilliant. They made me double over with laughter. They made me scream with delight. How many memories can you say you specifically recall in sharp detail from when you were four?</div>
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These illustrations do that for me. They give me that moment back, when I am very small and in a HUMONGOUS queen sized bed and laughing with my family until I vaguely want to puke. </div>
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Little bear, that's me. Let's be honest, it's probably you too. When I turn its worn and grubby pages, I can hear my mother's voice. I can have the nicest conversation with her. We talk about trips to the moon and birthday soup and things I have always loved. How many permanent ties to the love you felt as a small child do you really have in this world?<br />
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Little bear was the beginning of Maurice Sendak's career, he and Else Holmemund Minarik created a beautiful collection of I Can Read books, way before anyone thought a child could ever be left behind. I know that as a child the words of course mattered, they always matter, but OH the PICTURES. I'd lay on my stomach on our 80s shag rug and study them for hours. You can just catch the humor in Mother Bear's eye as she cradles her little bear fresh from a moon landing. I know that in my life I've focused all the better on perfecting my ability as a line artist, because Maurice Sendak could <i>say</i> so much with a pen and two colors. <br />
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He has given me more than words can say, so let's move on, shall we? In times like these, at the passing of an idol, I ask....</div>
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I say the best we can do is remember him fondly, share him with the littles in our life, delight in the details or our lives and try to see the world as a child would want it shown to them. We can push ourselves to create things that will make a difference, but I think the greatest thing we can do to remember him is simply live our art. <br />
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“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I
loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily —
but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of
a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a
letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much
he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever
received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing
or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.” ― Maurice Sendak</div>
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and as As @sjaejones said so perfectly this morning in my twitter feed.<br />
RIP Mr. Sendak, Let the Wild Rumpus Begin, wherever you are...</div>Amber Alvarezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14000116754897699222noreply@blogger.com2Brooklyn, NY, USA40.65 -73.9540.553624 -74.1079285 40.746376 -73.7920715tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26350734.post-68654159129471599332012-04-29T10:49:00.000-04:002012-04-29T10:49:54.307-04:00She Sure is {Life Drawing} Blushing NudesHibiscus tea ink and graphite:
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The crazed look in their eyes kicks in at about 4am. This year however, I was without Sandra, and so I was wooed by the racoon-rimmed eyes of a small sophomore sprite who had doused herself in ebony powder and was attacking her sketchbook with earnest. Knowing full well that charcoal sketches always look just plain awful and there's no way to glean anything actually happening with them, I was sure her work was going to be horrid, but her sketchbook was beautiful, so I had to ask her where she got it. She'd picked it up in Florence on a study abroad program. I braced myself for her dirty, dark sketches and was instead floored and impressed by how beautiful they were. </div>
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"Here, wanna try some?" she reached out her hand to share a broken stick and I was pulled back to a particularly lovely day on the bleachers in high-school. --OK.... Just a little... I thought. So here are my charcoal sketches from a long night, in which I made new friends, with kids and with medium.</div>
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So just like last year, and every year for the last decade, I power walked home. In true traditional Mark-Your-Calendars style I listened to Elliot Smith, Eminem, Eartha Kitt, and Ben Folds, (Maybe there was a little bit of unauthorized Gotye thrown in there).Pratt fuels me, and when I am nostalgic and ecstatic and feel like the world can barely hold my energy, I listen to the music that mattered to me when I lived on Dekalb and when it was an odd day that didn't find paint in my hair. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I got home. I sang in a cold shower (like every year). I dressed in jeans and a fresh t-shirt (like every year). I dance-ran to my studio (like every year). I got about half an hour of prolific work done, barreling through without even a <i>hint</i> of tired, and then... I zombie walked to my bed, half crazed with an all systems shutting down urgency unlike anything I know 364 days a year. I threw myself across the mattress, where I stayed until 2pm (just like every year). </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This week you'll be getting quick draw reports from that midnight oil reserve that lights my fire all year long, and <a href="http://shesureissketchy.blogspot.com/2011/04/girls-girls-girls.html" target="_blank">if you can't wait, there's always last year</a>.</div>Amber Alvarezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14000116754897699222noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26350734.post-69414050961543930752012-04-06T09:09:00.003-04:002012-04-06T09:40:18.853-04:00She Sure is {Vocal} Think Pink<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0jxdXwPs4W0kz-Ay803llH0aEIcC6hazLD6vK8cCNnekkdJMsxcPRNmEFZLN05pckSbIFndBBvW7v8wheQ0GG7SpjG00cCnflFAU9-HKAtaXOOz79YEgf-qa2ElSNGtGKLoSX/s1600/NudieCutie-TieMeUpInPink.vers2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0jxdXwPs4W0kz-Ay803llH0aEIcC6hazLD6vK8cCNnekkdJMsxcPRNmEFZLN05pckSbIFndBBvW7v8wheQ0GG7SpjG00cCnflFAU9-HKAtaXOOz79YEgf-qa2ElSNGtGKLoSX/s400/NudieCutie-TieMeUpInPink.vers2.jpg" width="216" /></a></div><div style="text-align: right;">The soap box I'm usually standing on here at She Sure is Sketchy is one that screams 'DRAW EVERY DAY' or "BE HAPPY - DO IT FOR YOUR ART". Today I want to show you something of a different color. <br />
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A few weeks ago I got a scathing email from a friend that went on and on about the commercialization of cancer, there was so much pontification on Pinkification that this letter needed three long and drawn out paragraphs. I read it thrice and slam dunked it into my little trash icon.<br />
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The thing is, I'm currently developing a line for a particular brand who's kind of in to the pink thing... It's been a long time coming and here's why I want to talk about it. When I began developing it, it was beyond sweet. Any of you here on a regular basis know that I like things cute, kind, cuddly. As I write this to you I'm decked out to the nines in girly girl clothes, and sitting twelve inches from a plush fuzzball inspired by a swooning pet store scene in the Harry Potter films. Here's the deal though, I put pencil to paper and I did a ton of work on this line, and then I thought of a friend I had in college<br />
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In the Summer of 2003 she was diagnosed with breast cancer. That year I watched her transition from someone cute and innocent to a blinding orb of fierce unbridled power. She shaved her head. She bought combat boots. She took to wearing short skirts and saying what she thought. She had the face of an angel, but I never knew it because I'd always been blinded by her mane of hair. She became the strongest version of herself, and when it was done, and her hair came back, she always rocked a curled pink ribbon.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv-d7s0Y6EY6j6DxCkr-VWVzZZNU6YhwPFdUxnG1yKmljccgFk62wbc7-9b2vm-0jioCMSsF7Ay3WaZAtYQU5N14vMZlUnPmsIlrBI2KVbS8N7LPOhRXBLLVXYCx3VCGJkTTOg/s1600/NudieCuties.thinkpink.Sketch05.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv-d7s0Y6EY6j6DxCkr-VWVzZZNU6YhwPFdUxnG1yKmljccgFk62wbc7-9b2vm-0jioCMSsF7Ay3WaZAtYQU5N14vMZlUnPmsIlrBI2KVbS8N7LPOhRXBLLVXYCx3VCGJkTTOg/s640/NudieCuties.thinkpink.Sketch05.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />
Thoughts of her made me change the entire direction this line was going. It's brash and its bold and when it's done I'll be proud of it. So that's my 2cents.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijklu4BlazQkBOWTLnxUYwEUi_r_s1zOf8eG_7DlOt-4IcvyPWZQ3ftDTu6yf3fQeA6iIXJxbSoKXRkuwDCwOo_UVKaQw0dH5FlQOGav49cKSE8Dn-hZXKDc2dQYvr6l0QCK2q/s1600/A.I.I+believe+in+Pink+-+Audrey+Hepburn.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijklu4BlazQkBOWTLnxUYwEUi_r_s1zOf8eG_7DlOt-4IcvyPWZQ3ftDTu6yf3fQeA6iIXJxbSoKXRkuwDCwOo_UVKaQw0dH5FlQOGav49cKSE8Dn-hZXKDc2dQYvr6l0QCK2q/s1600/A.I.I+believe+in+Pink+-+Audrey+Hepburn.jpg" /></a></div></div>Amber Alvarezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14000116754897699222noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26350734.post-46619368714172705752012-04-04T14:29:00.003-04:002012-04-04T15:20:31.289-04:00She Sure is {Sketchy} You Drive Me Batty<div style="text-align: center;"> Life is exceptionally good these days, pinch me good. When Life is good, I draw birds.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjAVWcQI6DtrT8oxVcec-SxxGVbuPupu6UQKJXjbX79SSbayqxyz5hz4MLrVFJ4Uugo3BFFO5_PopKgmmY1umpLKMN2LmUejnip6RJqe0RZC79oP-P3uFZAnc8d2SnGvcnatLz/s1600/FW.A.Alvarez.DriveMeBatty.BirdInspire..jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjAVWcQI6DtrT8oxVcec-SxxGVbuPupu6UQKJXjbX79SSbayqxyz5hz4MLrVFJ4Uugo3BFFO5_PopKgmmY1umpLKMN2LmUejnip6RJqe0RZC79oP-P3uFZAnc8d2SnGvcnatLz/s1600/FW.A.Alvarez.DriveMeBatty.BirdInspire..jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This bird though. This bird made me mad. He was so not cool. However, he reminded me of a bat.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Then I drew a bat.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqbQGM0Feuu6tEvIXgQ7-c3cYTn7_pPXf4UjL8C3HTZczZw9OtlTRQxbo1ddcpl31A45NfxFyeK0Yoh_s3syfYXjC8KUWeYDKA33ieeDkcfBPgdMj8ejnD7XLSM3HDs6cOvzIw/s1600/FW.A.Alvarez.DriveMeBatty.BatInspire.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqbQGM0Feuu6tEvIXgQ7-c3cYTn7_pPXf4UjL8C3HTZczZw9OtlTRQxbo1ddcpl31A45NfxFyeK0Yoh_s3syfYXjC8KUWeYDKA33ieeDkcfBPgdMj8ejnD7XLSM3HDs6cOvzIw/s1600/FW.A.Alvarez.DriveMeBatty.BatInspire.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I liked that <i>a lot</i> better. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Then I drew some more bats.</div> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUyk_MUSzK0sH9jstbbzRGzJ_5JHd6XygrIrrKIB3v-Yc7p4mpcEWCk3vuX2jzCi_7FMHUvnBsoD6jZ5oBaZ7Lqrky6o87W0ZftMHuf4YnL2t-LzlQru2ktaAMxFr_uXKc13E3/s1600/FW.A.Alvarez.DriveMeBatty_03.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUyk_MUSzK0sH9jstbbzRGzJ_5JHd6XygrIrrKIB3v-Yc7p4mpcEWCk3vuX2jzCi_7FMHUvnBsoD6jZ5oBaZ7Lqrky6o87W0ZftMHuf4YnL2t-LzlQru2ktaAMxFr_uXKc13E3/s1600/FW.A.Alvarez.DriveMeBatty_03.jpg" /></a><br />
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In a cherished conference call last month, a client pushed Dr. Seuss out of the #1 most quotable things I auto-mantra to myself during 3am jam sessions. Here is what she said, "What I love best about these little guys, and actually everything you've shown us, is that your drawings are utterly disciplined but totally carefree. I look at everything that you do and I think, "Let's march headlong in to recess".<br />
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So this April I am focusing on returning to what I love most about my work, and remembering that when it is <i>good</i>, I am trying -- when it is <i>great</i>, it just happens--that's when it feels like somersaults at the beach.<br />
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In summary, this post is about how birds become bats, and how Surtex is gonna rock this year.Amber Alvarezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14000116754897699222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26350734.post-78932935081915552362012-03-26T14:48:00.000-04:002012-03-26T14:48:02.803-04:00She Sure is {Sketchy} Monday Afternoon Doodles<div style="text-align: center;">I take late meetings at job-job on Mondays and we talk about video games and sound effects and commercials from the 90s. Sometimes I doodle. Today was one of those days.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVrERO9w2xuUf2ryIEWEU4pUo2szagCCrsVNjdGc4eMI3BJ5Qbs2aa2xdaR8PAApVqXG-nUeSDEODvyY45Y8sN3sYqHrCFo8uOrvIEahrHmx2xCcQz-g6IjiDAERyKJhyphenhyphenWO7Eq/s1600/A.Alvarez.MondayAfternoonDoodles.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="408" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVrERO9w2xuUf2ryIEWEU4pUo2szagCCrsVNjdGc4eMI3BJ5Qbs2aa2xdaR8PAApVqXG-nUeSDEODvyY45Y8sN3sYqHrCFo8uOrvIEahrHmx2xCcQz-g6IjiDAERyKJhyphenhyphenWO7Eq/s640/A.Alvarez.MondayAfternoonDoodles.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEiif4l42ARxWqOHQ-VEqjeigtm2faQXT4SYRJiahXO01ErUEpk7folzlwDhrkLCUfwyAuPGkLumtlPtb2pRsz380F0AXVyHDHcpEbsr2rjKmeXrS7hHo_vVBth8YKT1ZOFi5m/s1600/A.Alvarez.MondayAfternoonDoodles01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="404" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEiif4l42ARxWqOHQ-VEqjeigtm2faQXT4SYRJiahXO01ErUEpk7folzlwDhrkLCUfwyAuPGkLumtlPtb2pRsz380F0AXVyHDHcpEbsr2rjKmeXrS7hHo_vVBth8YKT1ZOFi5m/s640/A.Alvarez.MondayAfternoonDoodles01.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpfUBpTwfhjZavbNUg_GvojDaWdzEDeHLgpkooFIlmF9lc2D7QQrv7caRsF3c9WEli35cn927qJOgyH3elmqZNKQ1-Jn32v7REjubAtD_oaF6ktuA5wDW13oZ24cUp9AfluxTl/s1600/A.Alvarez.MondayAfternoonDoodles02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpfUBpTwfhjZavbNUg_GvojDaWdzEDeHLgpkooFIlmF9lc2D7QQrv7caRsF3c9WEli35cn927qJOgyH3elmqZNKQ1-Jn32v7REjubAtD_oaF6ktuA5wDW13oZ24cUp9AfluxTl/s640/A.Alvarez.MondayAfternoonDoodles02.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWwM7F3bM_KEW4DYixonn_WBxLk9bUWEUlSgipUJp1tmG_1xH4NzWFze9fsZ5ZUNT21m7m7EtEQgM0Cx5ylowwlbkuTrwg6g7SExvmzaKUUa50v4AWgPG63gpOAK4M8M2NTGmd/s1600/A.Alvarez.MondayAfternoonDoodles03.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWwM7F3bM_KEW4DYixonn_WBxLk9bUWEUlSgipUJp1tmG_1xH4NzWFze9fsZ5ZUNT21m7m7EtEQgM0Cx5ylowwlbkuTrwg6g7SExvmzaKUUa50v4AWgPG63gpOAK4M8M2NTGmd/s640/A.Alvarez.MondayAfternoonDoodles03.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>Amber Alvarezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14000116754897699222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26350734.post-84677780103712177702012-03-23T11:02:00.004-04:002013-06-07T07:04:12.416-04:00She Sure is {Sketchy} Swamp Thing<div style="text-align: center;">
I think I love you....</div>
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Those may not be the words, but this week at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, they were exactly the sentiment.</div>
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Happy Friday!<br />
Draw your hearts out this weekend, I'm going to ;) <br />
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Amber Alvarezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14000116754897699222noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26350734.post-69959755921998495192012-03-22T10:11:00.013-04:002012-03-22T10:43:23.112-04:00She Sure is {Sketchy} Field(ing) Dinosaurs<div style="text-align: right;"><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;">I jumped and jogged along the Chicago Waterfront's freak 70 degree magnificent mile this week. I stayed at the Chicago Essex where I swam every morning, raced instep with sailboats every evening, got schooled in bagpipe traditions in dimly lit pubs, took care of mega-business and fell madly in love with every freaking thing I came across.... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAhs8KOeliOk3fwu2d131VerE2p2MOQCBsD6ytwO6pBsg7BZuEYa57U-hSfcFJG0nAilBV3jscbHaoHXfPSSv9Q5nh_2EEEIgAWyBIoRUCJU2E7XdNDgxjCkQFfbIXS96-m2UA/s1600/FW.FieldMuseumSketchy.AmberbopAlvarez.Tricera.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAhs8KOeliOk3fwu2d131VerE2p2MOQCBsD6ytwO6pBsg7BZuEYa57U-hSfcFJG0nAilBV3jscbHaoHXfPSSv9Q5nh_2EEEIgAWyBIoRUCJU2E7XdNDgxjCkQFfbIXS96-m2UA/s640/FW.FieldMuseumSketchy.AmberbopAlvarez.Tricera.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3-p2QLR_gmV6IafyVReNoaw7EuWR9rkc6GsuFDuI_RE1gWt-dsDkygswYc2_F-s_sdcFav3sdJmplKMEPp2OkUa7NW4dOzmjXZo5HGo2vpM9e2ehJN7-OhSiLcZWY5Qhpq7SA/s1600/Dinosaur.Spiney.AmberAlvarez.Amberbop.FW.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3-p2QLR_gmV6IafyVReNoaw7EuWR9rkc6GsuFDuI_RE1gWt-dsDkygswYc2_F-s_sdcFav3sdJmplKMEPp2OkUa7NW4dOzmjXZo5HGo2vpM9e2ehJN7-OhSiLcZWY5Qhpq7SA/s640/Dinosaur.Spiney.AmberAlvarez.Amberbop.FW.jpg" width="470" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I'm sure I'll be back in the windy city before we head into June. In the meantime, here's some of the blueprint babies I found on my walkabout. Seeing so many skeletons was exhilarating. Process wise, I started by sketching an accurate representation with purple ink ballpoint. I'd cop a squat and whip out a little pot of ink and a waterbrush to really bring it home. Without further ado, these are straight from the book, done whilst I floated on dinosaur cloud 9</span>.<br />
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</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">(Admire that sexy-sexy bandage on my thumb. If I had procured said gash in the 18th century that paper-cut would have taken care of any malady imaginable. P.S. Chicago's ER was a breezy dream when it wasn't a disappointment of 90's proportions. I did not see a single man worth of Noah Wyle's pointy nose cuteness or George Clooney's eye crinkly laugh.)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1flOldbTNC7KeQFUlPQyDxbuqO6L7UFi6iXTtjCsNSfPM2u8bQAcHwe9lYFt_b3vqtv3myaiuWWkIoR0LBk-L4qUHUc4Ejf3T-PRYQdMoIJrm-QOL7GQZMys-KUlDYCBoEaMA/s1600/FW.FieldMuseumSketchy.AmberbopAlvarez.Runner.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1flOldbTNC7KeQFUlPQyDxbuqO6L7UFi6iXTtjCsNSfPM2u8bQAcHwe9lYFt_b3vqtv3myaiuWWkIoR0LBk-L4qUHUc4Ejf3T-PRYQdMoIJrm-QOL7GQZMys-KUlDYCBoEaMA/s640/FW.FieldMuseumSketchy.AmberbopAlvarez.Runner.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />
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</div>Amber Alvarezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14000116754897699222noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26350734.post-88004171162719728252012-03-14T14:30:00.000-04:002012-03-14T14:30:42.010-04:00She Sure is {Thrilled}: The First Day of Spring<div style="text-align: center;">In which I sketch out of doors without a coat. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ84jrDJmLbVccGcJat2oIR8c5q6Fu5gxbXZJYq4__E3kPx4DKs4X_5JScyxqVmiGhKkZluhMM_xloXCSGfIt24DbISRDK0p5GQQTPmveHDbMDJUgs4miH-YhcqnmovxUD3SP9/s1600/A.Alvarez.MadisonSquarePark.PeopleWatch04.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="632" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ84jrDJmLbVccGcJat2oIR8c5q6Fu5gxbXZJYq4__E3kPx4DKs4X_5JScyxqVmiGhKkZluhMM_xloXCSGfIt24DbISRDK0p5GQQTPmveHDbMDJUgs4miH-YhcqnmovxUD3SP9/s640/A.Alvarez.MadisonSquarePark.PeopleWatch04.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuBy9q7_ER3u8UOAGgkauNJ3npsPrP-nvfF8F7sqn0Hwj2O3fm0gFrBhDWqsPHZseFFEwaHOEAwh1gjz-xh0gVJ9f7O4kdsp5Pj5Ic86npq42kDcWFRyU6yTisM6sPOK82ABZc/s1600/A.Alvarez.MadisonSquarePark.PeopleWatcing02.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="518" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuBy9q7_ER3u8UOAGgkauNJ3npsPrP-nvfF8F7sqn0Hwj2O3fm0gFrBhDWqsPHZseFFEwaHOEAwh1gjz-xh0gVJ9f7O4kdsp5Pj5Ic86npq42kDcWFRyU6yTisM6sPOK82ABZc/s640/A.Alvarez.MadisonSquarePark.PeopleWatcing02.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>Amber Alvarezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14000116754897699222noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26350734.post-26065816641399400922012-03-08T07:37:00.002-05:002012-03-08T10:39:57.976-05:00She Sure is {Impressed} Subaru's New First Car Campaign<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">In new Miracle on 34th Street like glory, Subaru has paired up with a few brilliant programmers to create the greatest ad campaign known to aging Americans with reminiscent stories of their glory days. I have friends tell me all the time that they're mad jealous of my animation skillz, now you can dive in to my tool box and make your own little movie. Shine on, Americans. Shine on.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
Here's<a href="http://www.firstcarstory.com/story/6641" target="_blank"> a little blip of days gone</a> by I pulled together this morning. <br />
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Share your great car memories in the comments.<br />
Rock steady. </div>Amber Alvarezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14000116754897699222noreply@blogger.com1