Vote for me Pretty please!! :D

 

Hello everyone! I am usually not one to beg or plead for anything, but I am hoping my friends can support me. I just entered a contest and I need your votes. If you have some time please click to vote. If not I still love you!! Thank you all so much in advance!

XOXO
Elaine
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Ooh La La- My article in Belle Inspiration

Been super busy! As you know, one of my side gigs is writing for magazines. This one is Belle Inspiration and it is quite my cup of tea. I wrote a article Un Voyage a Travers a France-A Photographic Journey Through Time of France. This article is only part of my collection of antique images of France and Paris.

I am very proud of the end result and Mimi and Belle Inspiration has been kind enough to allow me to share it with you!

Enjoy!

This Inspires Me

Inspiration Files Mark Schwartz

Mark Schwartz 

 

Mark Schwartz began his career in New York City in the early 1980's where he was hand picked by legendary French shoe designer Roger Vivier to assist him in shoe design. Vivier was so impressed with Mark's ability to design and sketch that he called his friend Andy Warhol to visit Schwartz one day and soon Warhol took to Schwartz's whimsical approach to shoes and for the last 3 years of his life he tutored Schwartz and mentored him , both Schwartz and Warhol painted shoes on a monthly basis exchanging ideas which eventually became the style that you see today in Mark's work. After Warhol's death Schwartz went on to live and work in Paris and Milan , designing for such houses as Chanel, Lacroix, Hermes, Balenciaga, Gucci and Prada to name a few. Upon his return to New York ( 1995 ) Schwartz opened his own boutique debuting his own shoe line Mark Schwartz in the SOHO district of NYC. Schwartz then displayed the paintings he did with Warhol on the walls of his shop and found out that they soon started to sell as well if not more than his physical shoes . ( Thank you Andy! ) Schwartz has gone on to define the shoe as an art form ( High Heeled Art- Artistic Renderings of Shoes ).

We must be in the same wavelength. I just made an illustrations called "everything is better with scallops"

 He is amazing!!!! Visit his blog http://www.highheeledart.blogspot.com/ to purchase his art.

Fun with my sketchbook

Some of these drawings are a bit old and you can tell by my signature.

Croqui de Élaine

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I have been drawing a lot lately. Since January I have amounted an insane quantity of drawings, and I just had to do something with them.

Some of them I actually colored by hand with pencils and pastels. Others I did color digitally, but never intended for them to be released because I wanted to covet them for me. That was until yesterday. I absolutely love these.

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Dukan It Out-Before and After Pics week 3

Well I am happy to report... that it kinda shows. So I am posting the pics and you be the judge.

What have I been doing?
I actually cheated a bit because I was sick. I needed a bit of carbs. When I felt better, I ate better. I also I am trying Carb Intercept Phase 2 per Dr. Oz when I was bad. It helped.:D

I started out looking like this...

A special thank you to my friend Elizabeth Forero. When you are losing weight, you tend to be super unkind to yourself. She has been kind and supportive. You are the best! XOXO