This Valentine's Day....

I return to my roots...

potato stamps.
I wish you a very punny valentines day, filled with kisses and red dye #4.

Wee Bee

Thinking 'bout Spring.

Creative Obsession

What do you get when you combine 3 of my favorite things,
Ariel, Hipsters and Making fun of Hipsters?

This week's creative obsession:
Hipster Ariel, natch.
Go forth and snark or shark... Whatever floats your boat,
or not.

That's Funny...

I always thought I hated frosting.

This is the text that arrived at 5:30 am. 'Due to icing in our area, the office will be closed today'. I feel like making cupcakes!

I was debating calling in sick this morning. I got stuck on a sketch jag last night and was up until 4am. Unfortunately/fortunately these days regardless of when I go to bed I'm up at 8:30 without an alarm. So today you get 4 hours of sleep Amber. It shouldn't make any difference to you. You often get 3-4 hours of sleep Amber and are just none the wiser ;)

So anyway. I got stuck on a woodland valentine sketch-jag and now we're here. ART DAY WEDNESDAY! I'm breaking out the medium! I'm going to take a nap!
I will also clean the kitchen, a seemingly mundane task to you, but an exciting one to me!
I LOVE FROSTING!
x and o and more x,
Happy Camper Amber

Straight from the Book

Last night I had a dream about watching my Netflix....

Apparently my life just teams with danger and romance. My subconscious has to focus on those little things I wish I had time for.When I hit my sketchbook, I very rarely have a solid idea of what I want to draw. When I moved to NYC from Hawaii, I immediately stopped dreaming. Weird, right? I grew up with the sound of constant crashing waves on white sand as ambient noise. Switching that for the ambiance of Brooklyn didn't seem to agree with my nighttime fantasies.
It didn't really matter because that first year at Pratt I probably got about 20 hours of sleep a week. That year I started to realize that my sketchbook is a direct line to my subconscious. For instance... 3 months before June I automatically start drawing boobies and bikinis. It's like clock work.

Apparently all I'm thinking about these days is snow and snow clothes and ....SPRING.
Always, Spring.
P.S. Dreaming picked up two years ago when I got a smart phone and installed lightning bug. You want it. You want it bad.

Vorrei Essere in Italia

Queste Ragazze Amber sono ispirate dalle dolci colline della Toscana.

Il mio preferito è il pulcino con la borsa di grandi dimensioni.
Il mio amica, Emily, pensò di questi disegni. Sono entusiasta di apprendere che è il sua preferita.

Renderli indossare un trench, metterli in scarpe basse! E 'così divertente da disegnare le idee.

Sono andata a una scuola d'arte di fantasia in cui è stato richiesto a tutti di studiare una lingua romanza. Ho imparata un vago italiano conversazionali. Ne so abbastanza per scrivere un post sul blog, ma non abbastanza per arrivare ovunque in Italia che non è un bar, biblioteca, museo, o un bagno.

Grazie per la vostra pazienza.

I Used to Live in Brooklyn

Now I live in a postcard.

Dust Bunny Baby

A million years ago, in another lifetime, on the other side of the space time continuum I worked for PBS Kids as a designer for animation.  While I was there I had an awesome time creating photo-element collage for television. 

This is the script (dust bunny that is actually rabbit is found under bed. Sad.) 

This little bunny of dust is collaged from bits of fluff and carpet wool and crap you typically find under your bed, but cuter, kinder and slightly less scary, at least for me.

In the end I think he was on screen for 4.3 seconds ;) However he's a fully jointed

I'm using this technique along with this years picture book dummy challenge over at http://kidlitart.blogspot.com/

You'll be seeign more of it as I um... dust it off if you were.

It's A New Year

Cat in Hat