Fish & Bird Painting 2

Stolen Style

I totally stole her style (well, actually, the stylist for this Nylon spread) for a shoot I styled for a model that looked exactly like her.
See?

So Fragile

I have a little girl crush on French actress Clemence Poesy.

She is the daintest.

This image I found from the outtakes from her featured spread in Blast Magazine.

She looks cold.

Fish & Bird Painting 1

First of my Fish & Bird paintings series.

Vain and Vapid

This image was taken from a blog that I had stumbled upon:

http://vainandvapid.blogspot.com

This lovely lady makes her own clothing and styles her own beautiful photoshoots. The style is simple, innocent and very fresh. I am an admirier.

More Birds...

Iconomania = Obsession with Icons or Portraits

When I was in college, my drawing teacher took us to the Met and explained that, eventhough no one really thinks about it now, all of the nude portraits of women were like modern day Playboy portraits for the rich men to put in their salons. I always wondered how the nude male statues were received. Why do we feel completely comfortable viewing nudity in fine art form only?

Distracted Gods

Another beautiful pale sepia, yellow, green, and apricot pink image. Love with the looming possiblity of danger. The anatomical rendering of the woman figure is bizarre and lumpy.

Ghosts in Color

I need to find more vintage sepia toned photograghs that have been painted. The colors are so vivid compared to the hauntingly washed out background and figures. This would actually make an interesting fashion photography spread.

Pretty Junk

If garage sales were color coordinated...

Two Love Birds

Pigeon and Turtle Dove sitting in a tree...

Big Bird

I love the feathered headdress and the fuzzy, yellow 70's polaroid vibe. So dainty.

Yellows, Greens and Pinks

I believe that when someone experiences true inspiration, the reaction is nothing short of complete obsession. I am a painter, and I constantly struggle with being inspired, and creating imagery our of my idea that is actually aesthetically pleasing. *Sigh. However, lately I have taken on a project inspired by the song "Fish & Bird" by Tom Waits. (In fact, all of the songs are amazingly beautiful, and as "dainty" as Tom Waits can get.) However, this song in particular literally brought tears to me eyes- that rarely happens. If you have not heard the song, it is about the tragic impossibilty of the love between a little bird and a whale:
"He said, 'You cannot live in the ocean'; And she said to him'; You never can live in the sky'; But the ocean is filled with tears; And the sea turns into a mirror; There's a whale in the moon when it's clear; And a bird on the tide"
Oh God! Sniffle, sniffle. So, I have decided to paint little birds and fish with one another. In my search of images, I have stumbled upon these beatuiful images with awe-inspiring colors...

Hello, stranger...

Welcome to Pretty Oddities- a self indulgent, yet hopefully inspiring site that pays homage to all that I find to be beautifully strange. From images that I have stumbled upon to imagery I have been obessively imagining, each post is a little glimpse into what it means to eternally daydreaming in color. Summed up in my favorite quote from one of my all time favorite books, "We felt the imprisionment of being a girl, how it made your mind active and dreamy and how you learnt what colors went together." - Jeffery Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides