LOVE - A R T

Making scraps into art

I have been surrounded by art my entire life. My mom is an artist, grandfather a photographer, my brother can take a look at a piece of furniture and re create it within hours from sight and my dad paints in the dark, creating crazy works of art. I've been wandering the halls of museums since I could walk, loved Degas, Picasso and Matisse at a very early age. Can't  believe that I actually went to the Louvre and saw the Mona Lisa and the Da vinci show to boot.  Weather it's stick figures, finger paint or oil on canvas art feeds your soul, blinds you with color and makes your heart skip a beat.
xxoo,
Windsor

LOVE - I N S P I R A T I O N

My life would be empty with out inspiration.  I see photographically, meaning pretty much everything looks like a photo to me.  I see shapes and forms, mentally crop and take note of the quality of light.  I am inspired by the colors of Santorini, the beach, high fashion, costumes, history, music and much much more.  Back in the day I would make inspiration boards.  Hours and hours of  going through my magazines and ripping  out pictures of things I liked, wanted to be or goals I wanted to reach.  I would pin them to a cork board that hung in my room.  Everyday I would look at my 'inspiration board' and visualize what it was that I was inspiring to be or do.   Now a days there's a little website called Pinterest that I am totally in love with. Pinterest is a virtual pin board.  It let's you organize and share all of the beautiful things you find on the web.  Pinterest has totally opened me up to a whole new inspirational level and I can't get enough!  Check out my boards and if they inspire you make your own.

xxoo,


Windsor

BIKINI - D E S I G N

Today is a red letter day.  I am going to San Francisco and having some fabric printed that I designed.  When I was in high school, my crazy art teacher that no one respected told me I should think about going into textile designs based upon some abstract paintings I did.  I thought she was C U C K O O - textile design?  What the hell was she talking about?  I had no idea and I couldn't  grasp the concept because when I was in high school digital did not exist. I would have had to take a slow boat to China, have fabric molds made, dye lots created and many many strike off 's shown to just get 1 yard of final fabric.  Then a few years ago at work we started digital fabric printing and I managed production for small fashion designers based in SF, LA and New York.  I was in heaven and my art teacher's comment came rushing back to me as I saw what the possibilities were for "textile design."  No slow boat to China for me, it was at my finger tips and I started designing like crazy.  Now I have swatches and yardage and color charts strewn upon my work space like a big beautiful fabric bomb exploded.  So, off I go to the city today, dropping off files, picking up some suits from my seamstress and having lunch with my friends overlooking the San Francisco Bay.  Ah life is good.