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Insta-Update

November has really been hectic and I have really little time to do anything but school work, so my instagram and blog haven't been very exciting [sorry]. School is almost done though, so expect to be bombarded this december with posts on both instagram and my blog. <3

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Artist Spotlight: Francesca Jane Allen

I meant to post this last sunday, but time has really been escaping me lately. I found this artist through facebook actually. A friend from my past who I haven't seen in ages posted her website. I looked at her work and fell in love. I noticed that my friend had tagged her in the post which was piculiar to me. I clicked on her linked name and found out that she goes to a school within UAL. This was even more bizzar because my friend who posted the link lives in LA, but it was clear they knew each other. What a small world right?

Francesca is a really talented photographer who has done a lot of professional work with many fashion designers and magazines and she is still in Uni. From what I can tell this must be her last year at UAL. I really enjoy her work and I would love to someday shoot with her. Check out her website here, and her blog here.

Picture overload:
All pictures are from Francesca's blog or her website.

Artist Spotlight: Margaret Kilgallen

I have to admit that I have been looking forward to writing about Margaret Kilagallen since the last time I wrote an artist spotlight. This is one of my favorite artists for more than just the fact that I like her art. I think that the kind of person that she was and the things that she stood for and what she believed in, really made me love her.



For those of you that have never herd of her, I suggest you check her out online or you can watch the movie "Beautiful Losers" (One of my favorite movies) to learn about her and other brilliant artists. Margaret was a bay area street artist in the 90s and she had a heart breaking death in 2001. Her art was mainly of these powerful women in nature, she did a lot of work for her community such as making signs and working with calligraphy which was really prevalent in her body of art work as a whole. One of my most favorite things that she said was:

"In my own work I do everything by hand, I don't project. I do spend a lot of time trying to perfect my line work and my hand, but my hand will always be imperfect, because it's human. If I am doing really big letters and I spend a lot of time going over the line, and over the line trying to make it straight, I'll will never be able to make it straight. From a distance it might look straight, but when you get close up you can always see the line waver and I think thats where the beauty is."

There is so much truth to that statement. As artist we are always trying to make something look perfect but no matter how hard we try we will never be able to get it to that state because humans are imperfect. Art that is done by computers can be perfect but it is 100 times more beautiful to see something done by hand because you can see how much work went into each little line. She also spoke a lot about women's rights and equality which also made a big impression on her work.


,br> Margaret Kilgallen died in 2001 from cancer. She chose to not get treatment because she was pregnant and she would have had to give up her baby which she was not willing to do. She was married to another really talented artist named Barry Mcgee (he is really talented and awesome) and they did a lot of collaborations with each other. She died very young and it is such a shame because she was really talented and a wonderful human being who had the most interesting things to say. She is a huge inspiration to me not only as an artist but as a human being. She continues to inspire young women artists everywhere.

A Glimpse Into My Brain

These are some snaps from my sketchbook. I started this sketchbook in 2011 When I started going to California College of the Arts. It isn't filled up or really even finished, but I think looking at someone's sketch book is highly personal. You are going to be able to see into my mind.



It was a really interesting process taking pictures of these pages in my book. I took a picture of all of the pages, but I felt like a lot of them aren't good enough to show anyone yet. I think going through the book in person feels a lot different then looking at pictures. I feel like looking at the pictures I have taken I am able to look through someone else's eyes and I can see what I want to add or change. I think it's really appropriate that I ended my post with the page that says my biggest flaw. I definitely take myself way too seriously.