here's a new thing i made for my friend (ex-boyfriend) john. i love drawing birds.

The Farnsworth House

Yesterday, I went on a field trip with my fellow MFA-ers to Plano, Illinois to visit the Mies van der Rohe-designed Farnsworth House. You have to visit to get the full effect but I just wanted to share how beautiful the fall colors were up against the stark white of the house.

Despite the rain, it really was a great day and I'm glad I got to see such a cool piece of architecture/history in the flesh (errr, in the steel).

Here's some pics from the Web site. I would have taken my own but I'm lazy and didn't want to lug my camera around all day. If you have a car, just visit. It's only an hour and a half away and well worth the trip.

The Color of Chicago

I feel like I haven't posted in ages, so here's something. Not terribly exciting, just something I've been working on for school. I had to come up with a color pallette for Chicago for a poster project, so I decided to create one based on a bunch of rocks I found on Lake Michigan. I know it's not urban enough, but it was just an experiment and I'm obsessed with these rocks lately. I just wanted to try it out and see what happened. I made another one with more traditional colors, but I like this one better...



Here's the more traditional one, based mostly on lakefront colors.