definatalie.com » mucha http://www.definatalie.com Drawing, body image and being fancy Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:07:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Mucha inspired illustrations http://www.definatalie.com/2008/09/18/mucha-inspired-illustrations/ http://www.definatalie.com/2008/09/18/mucha-inspired-illustrations/#comments Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:31:41 +0000 Natalie http://www.definatalie.com/?p=129 So, while I’m in a blogging mood I should show you a few things I’ve been doing. Yes, I have been around but I just haven’t been inspired to blog. It seems like everything has been blogged about a million times already, and the only use for me blogging those things is to increase my [...]]]> So, while I’m in a blogging mood I should show you a few things I’ve been doing. Yes, I have been around but I just haven’t been inspired to blog. It seems like everything has been blogged about a million times already, and the only use for me blogging those things is to increase my google ranking… which I’m soooo not interested in any more.


I went back to my Mucha book after talking about his works with a friend. First I tried to do a straight out copy of “Dusk” because I just love the lines in her hair and the draping of the sheet.

Sketchbook: Mucha Dusk
It didn’t turn out too well, but all wasn’t lost. I gained an even huger respect for his drawing ability – does that even make sense?! Who can draw draping like that? I mean, really!


I have always been fascinated with puppetry and started doodling the marionette girl dangling from the hands of a scary woman I clipped out of a magazine. Then I thought about it a bit more and decided that another little child needed to be controlling her. Oh, creepy childhood themes….! (This is available as a t-shirt and a print.)


My friend Sonya’s birthday came up and I really wanted to draw her as a sailor girl after seeing her in a cute sailor-esque kind of outfit. She said she really liked it! I hope she did :)

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by Ann Tarantino The Faceted Couroucou
by Carrie Marill

These prints are available from 20×200 and you can buy one of these, or heaps of [...]]]> Art I Love

Breath Portrait (favorite colors)
by Ann Tarantino
The Faceted Couroucou
by Carrie Marill

These prints are available from 20×200 and you can buy one of these, or heaps of others, for $20 – that’s right, you can buy a print from as little as $20. Amazing.

Art I Make

paisley patchThis piece is called “Paisley Patch” and it’s an extension of the paisley garden drawing I posted earlier last week. By my own admission I’m not a very good painter, I much prefer drawing; which is why watercolour pencils are pretty much perfect for me! I used Derwent watercolour pencils on canvas for this piece.

I have done a few more of these pieces, but I haven’t photographed them as yet however when I get some time (and the day star is shining) I’ll take a few pictures to post here.

painting 056This is a study of a couple of Alphonse Mucha motifs in watercolour pencils again. I recently bought a book on Mucha with loads of stunningly reproduced poster and packaging art. I’d never seen his pieces in such detail before and I was struck by the gorgeous ornamentation and use of motifs. You can zoom in to a piece about 10 times and see as many different and beautiful things.

Reverie by Alphonse Mucha

I have to apologise (again?) for my sporadic entries. I’m on a week’s leave from work due to my wrist injury, and the death of my friend is getting to me a little bit as well. I’m finding myself doing a lot of research and drawing, seeking solace in design and beauty.

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