Business Card for Silhouettes

So here is my finished business card*. I am available to cut silhouettes at weddings--I am doing my first of those this Friday--parties, and other events as well as in person and by mail. Silhouettes, tell your friends!



*address and phone number removed for internet privacy. For my full contact information leave me a message here or email me at victoriambelisle@gmail.com

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And just for fun, a few tea related sketches and a set of vegetable from non-costume day at Old Sturbridge Village. I do love my tea...actually I think the kettle is boiling just now. Cheers!

England

Went to visit my sister Becky in England the week before the Royal Wedding. Tried to keep a visual log while we were there drawing at least one--though usually two--pictures per day. The trip was amazing, I cannot wait until I am able to go back. I think I was meant to be English.

Cheers!

PS. via my little sister, a photo of the artist herself, hard at work finishing that sketch of Lyme Regis

Sketchbooking

A little play with watercolours while I was out.

OSV Sketching

So very kindly last year at Music and Arts--which was also a success this year--Walter made me a beautiful period sketchbook. This year I am finally getting a chance to really use it, drawing in costume in the village on slow days. I only have a few sketches so far, but I am hoping, if the weather improves, to increase that number very soon.

My sketchbook by Walter

Fishing in the morning with one of the interns

Bullard Tavern

Hopefully I will have some more sketches soon from my 2010 sketchbook too.

Sketchbooking

I have been working on trying to get back in the habit of sketching from observation wherever I go. I found it really fulfilling when in Italy but then got out of the habit. So here are a few selections from winter break:

Tea at the Hawkes House

Coffee Shop in Bath, ME

(filled with High Schoolers and laptops)

Meghan and my hotel room in Montreal

when we went to see the Waterhouse Exhibit

And one image from the summer I never posted but quite like:

Apothecary Kit from OSV Archives

Toodle-pip

Victoria

Journalistic Drawing: Italy II

Italy round II: illustrations from the world of the watercolour block

First, my favourite Italy illustration, Saint Thomas Aquinas, who spoke in Viterbo during his lifetime--maybe just not in this "Godspell" of a fashion:

Villa Lante:

Viterbo:

Viterbo:

Viterbo:

Also be sure to check out Drawing Viterbo which should soon be updated with the work of the rest of Montserrat's Journalistic Drawing Class 2009

Journalistic Drawing: Italy

Back from Italy with a good amount of artwork some I am quite proud of and some not as much; that is always the way of it though.

First, a few favourites from my Moleskine:

Viterbo recommendation:

Villa Lante à la Edward Gorey:

Fountain in the courtyard of city hall:

Laundry Day:

Old and New:

And a bonus image from my pre-Italy notebook, embroidery:

Journalistic Drawing: Practice Session III

I leave for Italy this afternoon. Wish me luck! and look for updates come August.

Journalistic Drawing: Practice Session II

A few highlights from the pre-Viterbo notebook:

Journalistic Drawing: Practice Session

I have not updated in a while, so I give you the first three drawings for my pre-Italy Journalistic Drawing sketchbook