Molly, the mischievous and the fashionable

  So, I was trying to come up with a new character to play around with. It was originally intended as a character for a fashion blog I was working on, but maybe I'll do a book as well. I wanted a character that was sort of like me as a child. I was very mischievous and would love to go through all the closets and drawers in my apartment to find cool things. A majority of the time I found really cool stuff, like old long embroidered hand gloves, neat rhinestone jewelry, and long printed scarves. Occasionally I would find a hidden christmas present my mom was hiding which was always awesome. All of it was vintage and I'd love to play dress up and then my mom would see the mess I had made and would then scold me. Then I'd do it all over again the next day. So Molly had to be very mischievous and of course loves fashion. So here's the first Molly portrait.

And so, the lawyer did his song and dance.

 So, the long train rides continue. And more animal sketches ensue. I have no idea why I named the judge, Hon. Judge Bunnicula, but hey, now maybe he is a vampire too, like in the children's books. Oh but lawyers are more vampire-like than judges. I could have made the lawyer a fox (the sly fox), but I thought a raccoon was more appropriate, they look like bandits and masked creatures.

Bunnies in the Burrow

Lately, I've been trying to draw entirely out of my head. I've also been taking long train rides lately. I also have a tendency to be late for said trains, so this equals lots of sketches. So what is coming out of my head, but animals and bunnies acting like people and having crumpets and tea in their burrows that just happen to look like an english cottage. I was going to put in carrot wallpaper, but the awesome band playing beatles tunes in penn station distracted me and then my train came so that just killed that horse. Oh well, either way I think it looks good.

Getting into Gear

Sketch of the day!
So I'm starting to work on a series of 3-dimensional boxes, and I started this layout design for it and then got a little carried away drawing in the sketchbook. But everything in the main circle is going to be made 3-dimensional with many layers. I haven't decided whether to make it out of paper or just go all out on it yet. Anyways, stay tuned for the final product!

Whimsical Walks on 5th Ave- Part 2

Tiffany Window

So here's part 2, there were just too many good windows to show in one post. Tiffany's windows this year were really cool, and of course animated, but I only have photos. The photo above they actually moved like a real merry-go-round. Their theme was based off the carousel in central park. The little windows were inset in a mirrored display which had over the entire outside a old fashioned carousel facade. Very dramatic. Yet the windows, were as delicate and as beautiful as the jewelry.

Carousel facade on Tiffany's windows

All the animals on the bridge were moving across it. 

Cool angle over the city.

Merry-go-round was animated.

  Meanwhile, across the street Bergdorf Goodman's windows had a slight circus theme in a few of their windows.

Now that is an awesome circus ringleader, I mean come on check out that gorgeous dress, enough of those red jackets.

There was a lot of use of animals, which I loved especially the horses. Below is also animals in tapestry.

This window below was all this copper metal sculpture, however they didn't photograph very well.

  

And of course, the best for last, well I think it personally was my favorite window, or at least the damn cutest one. What was so cool about it were all these animals that were made of chunky knits that look like sweaters or beading that would go on dresses. However, the best part is that it was so whimsical, the polar bear chef, and the wolves having cake and the seal having tea. Ultimate favorite the monkey with the champagne bottle. How can you resist that?

Love that monkey, now didn't I tell you he was the cutest. Oh and the polar bear is made out of fringe, how cool is that? I want to get my glue gun out and start crafting now. Might as well do something from my buckets of random stuff.

                         

Whimsical Walks on 5th Ave- Part 1

Bergdoff Goodman- Mosaic Underwater Window

  A few weeks back I went on a long walk down 5th ave to view all of the holiday window displays, which I hope you have at least taken a peek at. I'm really in love with beautiful window displays and honestly a lot of them are just art installations as far as I'm concerned. Oh that and most of them were created by artists. Hopefully, I'll get to do some window displays, but till then I'm going to have fun viewing and taking photographs of them. But I wanted to share some of my favorite windows. By the way, hands down, Bergdoff Goodman had the best windows. The attention to detail is amazing!

Mosaic Detail

In between bigger windows, Bergdoff Goodman also had a wonderful paper sculpture display done by Jay Soonthornsawad. I'm absolutely in love with paper sculpture, pop up books, and tunnel books. I was fascinated at the way it looks like a combination of the 3. The depth in the piece is incredible.

Jay Soonthornsawad's Paper Sculpture

 He also did a very large window display for them, entirely made out of paper. In it he transforms books into magical little tunnels for mice and forests for chameleons. I think my favorite though is the porcupine.

Transformed Books, detail

Mice Tunnels!

Aren't these great? There are a few more that I'd like to post, so my next post will be part 2 with more window displays.

     

Introducing the one and only suzannesoliman.com!

 There haven't been any posts due to summer events, but now I'm back and stronger than ever. I just revamped and renovated my website and it is now up and running. So check it out at suzannesoliman.com! It took just about a century to figure out how to use dreamweaver, but alas I now have mastered this tool. Take that technology! I purposely kept the site simple and easy to navigate. It could use a few touchups but other than that I'm happy with the outcome. I also created and designed my own logo with a dragonfly seen below.

Stay tuned this week for my Halloween posts.