I was looking through an old sketchbook from last semester and these are the ones that I really liked how they turned out. Chris, hope you like the hippos. 
Finally A Minute to Breathe
Spring break greeted me a little earlier than usual this year. My sister, Amy, flew in from Cleveland for five days and just flew out today. We had beautiful weather Wednesday and part of Thursday, but it soon shifted to hail and snow on Friday. My break couldn't have come any sooner.
Thursday we trekked the entire span of Houston searching for Clinton street on the Lower East Side, but to my poor navigation skills, we walked alllllllllll the way west. So... on our way east we saw this billboard. The picture is dedicated to mom and Kate who think he is mighty fine.
Us after braving the hailstorm to get what?....icecream. haha
On Saturday, Amy and I went to see the yearly grouping of attractive firemen and policemen all in one place, also called the Saint Patrick's day parade. It didn't beat a Cleveland Saint Patrick's day Parade, but comes in a close second. 
cute little girls playing the accordian
After the parade and irish pubs, Amy and I later met up with her old roommates from college and went to Park Slope for a party. 
Imagine you are in the Second Grade again...
...and on your Saturday morning when you look foreward to watching cartoons, your mom drags you out to do errands with her. You go fill up the gas tank, mail some letters, go to the atm, pay the parking meter, and eventually help do laundry when you get back home. These drawings interpret what a child may imagine during that trip.
OFF TO PARIS!
It's official, I will be packing my bags for good old Paris to start July at Parsons Paris. I am super pumped and have to brush up on my francais!
Interior/exterior drawings
Poster posts
See my classes work at :
http://www.yaris-sxsw.com/flatstock.php
Parsons is by far the best work posted.
Parsons Mag Illos
I busted these out all last night for the parsons magazine. 
I have been doing some research for an upcoming poster design that is brewing in the background. I could spend hours looking at books of old german, dutch, and french poster design. Here are a few of my favorite posters that I scanned for reference.
On a side note, I have some small news here to share with y'all. I will be going to PARIS this summer!! I am going for a two-week drawing class, called Drawing in Paris. I decided it on a whim, figuring that I need to study abroad before I graduate and it wont be as long as a semester, and I probably could still keep an internship if I land one for this summer. It is July 2nd-14th, so if anyone will be in Paris then, we should meet up. HAHA, never did I ever think of saying, "let's meet up in Paris."
I am super pumped for the new Parsons magazine that a collective of about 15-20 people working on it. I have to get my butt moving tonight to get my illos done. We are trying to pull it all together this week, articles, art, layout, and printouts. Pheew...I hope it happens. 
TOY FAIR
Yesterday I went to the New York Toy Fair at the Javits Convention Center. It was a really interesting day to just see the kadrillion types of toys that are out there. Parsons was invited by a sculptor of toys that came to talk to my toy class last semester. The whole event is very exclusive, only people from the industry are invited, so our invitation was very generous on Brett's (the sculptor) behalf. The whole event felt a little awkward though. I wore a badge that said, "GUEST" in big capitalized letters. All of the vendors/exhibitors wouldn't even talk to people unless they were "BUYERS" which makes sense, but made me feel weeeeeeeeee small. None the less, I saw a lot of great companies that use beautiful illustrators to adorn toys, books, baby clothes. I got many of their cards for later use.
School is picking up. Things are starting to build up w/ more intense projects. I think I figured out a more successful story-line for my children's book, I will be starting to develop my website (keep an eye out for it in a few months, it will just be my name, lindseybalbierz.com), plus drawings for my painting class. the joy of art school. For now, here is a drawing I did for my concepts class of a house from Marie Antoinette's village in France. I saw it when I went to France in 2004. How time flies. 
Happy Birthday Ed!
Another one for the show. I made it into a promotional piece for my internship applications.
new work
I finished the piece for my children's book class for a 'concept' book, meaning like a counting book or color or shape book. I am still not very happy with it. The second one just personal work for this summer's show. 
It hasn't even been a full week in the 2nd semester...
...and I have already lost a canvas. It's MIA, gone, in a utrecht bag. As my mom said, "Oh, it's gone. It probably grew legs and walked off. Better yet, it probably grew arms too and took the subway home." Haha. Gotta love her. But yes, I have no idea where I left my Utrecht bag w/ my beloved canvas (blank, thank goodness) but someone got a free canvas yesterday. So, I had to venture back to my favorite store and buy a second.
FIY: Anyone in NYC this June, I will be having a solo painting show in the Financial District, Klatch coffee shop. More info to follow. I am sure I will be showing the work as I progress.
Some new links
I put up a new section on my blog for links.
littlesketchbook.com is the website for a talented illustrator, jasmine wigant. I have been at parsons with jasmine since our foundation year, section k days. It has been really enlightening to see her grow from our foundation days. The other website is courtney reagor's portfolio. I recently started to correspond w/ her. Check out her work, very talented!
back to school, back to school
I am really excited about this semester and the classes I am taking. I hope to really grow this semester. I am working on a painting for children's book illustration. Below is a something I put together in photoshop, but I am unhappy w/ the simplicity of it. I started painting it tonight on a canvas. That one will come w/ a few days of work. 
these two are what i have been up to this week. i am liking the aspect of surface design that i was using in the first piece w/ the whale. and the second piece originates from a doodle i did on the subway. anyways, on the home front, i just bought a scanner, so look forward to more work in the next couple of days. I hope to get more up and running w/ this new addition. xoxo
It has been a long week, at least it feels like it for not being overly busy. I am just posting some little things that I have been working on over the week in my sketchbook. enjoy the holiday!
Welcome to my blog!
So, this is the home of my new blog, by me, Lindsey Balbierz. Named after a popular saying by my grandfather, the blog will be 'fine' and much more. I will be posting some of my sketches, paintings, and pictures of my artwork after the new year. But for the time being, here is a small painting I made as a joke for the sister for christmas.