2010 January – Drawsomethingawful

Sketchbook Marilyns

January 29, 2010 By Elizabeth Grammaticas 2 Comments

So I am working on just…sketching again….without pretension, without worry. At times, I get so caught up in trying to make the perfect piece, or my anxieties about my skills that I often become just..static. So I’ve started to keep a sketchbook again, and the crazy thing is, I am sketching..for fun.

Anyway, it’s an easy when to churn out some Marilyn studies, because like I’ve said before…due to the nature of Marilyn’s image saturated in the media..if you are going to make art about her…you better be able to get her feature right…we all know what they look like.

So, some quick studies from this week, playing around with paint markers.

Sketchbook 1

sketchbook 2

Also…can you tell I just saw a Tolouse Lautrec Exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts?

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Hitchcockian Marilyn in Real Life

January 24, 2010 By Elizabeth Grammaticas Leave a Comment

Often when a celebrity or person unexpectedly passes before their time, we are loaded with speculation about what ‘could have been’. In the case of Marilyn Monroe, there are already lists upon lists of never realized Monroe vehicles. Amist the future projects conjecture, perhaps the cinematic quality of her everyday life becomes overlooked.

I came across this candid photos of Monroe and was forced to do a double-take. It seemed as though Monroe walked right out of a Hitchcock film….except…in real life.