I really enjoyed working on this project: redoing a album cover. The Flaming Lips just have an awesome, quirky sound to them that I thought would be a good match with my illustration style. 
Promo piece continued
I finished up the promotional piece this weekend. I like the idea, but the actual construction of it took about half a day for just this one. I think I have to develop a better solution for the ones that I will send out.
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This is a promotional piece that I have been working on for my children's book class. The original work is watercolored, then I scanned it, and put the dotted design in w/ a scanned fabric swatch. The pattern of the fabric is red, so I changed it to a bluish-green. My final will be a mobile, where the fish, whale and shark will all hang down from the water/ocean area.
One for the birds
These are a series of drawings I made, sort of autobiographical. These are really different for me, I dont really like using ink washes w/ brush, but I am happy w/ how they came out. 
The Sims Project
The finals for The Sims project. Pictures for now, Ill try to write about them later. 
Make Music New York!
I finished up two different versions for a poster contest for "Make Music New York" a day long celebration of music that is happening in June. 
dead poets society
These are a set of drawings of poets I made using quill and ink. In these and some other drawings that I have been doing, I have been getting back into pointillism. 
I received two birthday presents...
...only they came 5 months late. I think hands-down present two is the best present.
Present 1: Dunkin Donut's free iced coffee today. What a great way to end the work day.
Present 2: The safe arrival of Ed back home to the states! This day has long been awaited for the past year and a half. It feels odd that when Ed called me last year and told me he was going to Iraq, and that he would be gone for a year and a half, it felt like it would be forever...I thought to myself "gee, by the time he gets back, you'll be almost done with junior year." This was something hard to fathom back then, but now that I am almost a Senior, it kinda scares the crap out of me. But a year and a half gone by, I have done a lot of growing in the meantime. Pray for everyone else that is still over there. My family got our soldier home safely, but there are still alot of other step-dads, grass mowing experts, flag pole putter-uppers, home depot lovers and dog chasers over there. Well--gotta paint. Chao.
This post is dedicated to you Ed!
Some old Favorites
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. 
Scotland map
I finished up the map today for Adventure and sent it off to DC to be scanned. Amy comes tomorrow for partying in NYC for Spring Break and Ed comes home soon! A lot, a lot of good things...
Parsons Illustration is doing a competition w/ The Sims--make artwork that is inspired by the game, either positively or negatively. I am creating different illustrated vintage cigarette cartons that have women+animal hybrids on the front. Anyways, I found a stamp book with really inspiring imagery and color combinations. 
I like the red and orange color combos in the bottom one
reminds me of swami heads after taking baths when i was little
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.
It's been a while since I posted. That's partly because I have been working on many different projects all this past week and now starting to complete the beginning of the batch. First, I found out last weekend that I along with Nick and Sam, were runners up with the Flatstock Poster Contest. Kudos to you guys and all the great posters that were submitted.
I also just got a call from an old friend who interned at Adventure the same time and is currently still there but in my old place as Art Intern. They are asking me to do a watercolor map of Scotland. WooHoo! It was like a godsend! It will be nice to make some money for France. I am just sending sketches off tonight, so hopefully go to a final this weekend. 
I also finished an urban legend project that is for concepts. The parameters of the project evolved over the week, first taking place in Paris, then in New York. I just kept mine set in Paris. This is the little story I wrote up to accompany my illustration.
>>>>Back in the late 18th century during Marie Antoinette’s reign, there was a gardener who tended to Antoinette’s play village. She loved gardening but hated Marie Antoinette. While she would garden, she would ramble to the fish in the pond. She entrusted to the fish about how she despised Marie Antoinette, gabbing and gabbing to the fish knowing that they would never repeat her words again. The fish loved hearing the woman talk so much that they had to fight each other to poke their heads above the surface of the pond. The woman thought that the fish only wanted bread, so wrote them off as being greedy. After Marie Antoinette’s death, the gardener never returned to the garden. She much preferred seeing her own garden blossom. Her decision was quite spontaneous, so she never had spoken of it to the fish. Meanwhile, the fish did not know where the woman went, so even until today, every time a person comes toward the pond, the fish fight to the surface to see if it is the woman gardener who has returned. Many people think they are seeking bits of bread, but are actually looking for the return of the gardener. 
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. 