Is There Such a Thing As Too Much Fun?

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Drink too much, get a hangover.
Dance too hard and get disco whiplash.
Eat too much, have indigestion.
Travel too long and get homesick.
Have an action packed weekend and crave another weekend to recover! 

Saturday, I got my hair cut and styled by Jessica K at Floyd's Mar Vista.
She's been working with my hair for over two years.

I then went to the afternoon rehearsal for the OTIS Scholarship Benefit Fashion Show.
I have yet to sort through my 200+ photos of that.

I stayed on after the post-show cocktail party to live sketch the VIPs
as they posed on the step and repeat before the evening show (see previous post).
My hair got kind of crazy, all on its own.

Sunday -- same outfit, different venue: the Los Lobos Cinco de Mayo Festival at the Greek Theater.
Dez and I had tickets for the orchestra pit. That meant standing -- for hours.

Back to slicked down hair.

Fiesta Mexicana opened the show on the main stage and performed between sets.

Mickey Lespron of El Chicano and Carlos Reyes on violin

Kinky

Los Lobos

Los Super 7

The persistent drizzle during the last hour.

A good review of the show, from which I got some of the bands' info.

Adding a late check in to Visible Monday -- thankful that Patti keeps musicians' hours with her linky!

The OTIS Scholarship Benefit Fashion Show: Sketching Joan Dangerfield

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SpyGirl was caught in action at the OTIS Scholarship Benefit Fashion Show!

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I had another session of live sketching last night.
All I can say is, thank goodness for the photographers at the Step and Repeat!
I relied on them last year to catch IDs of people that I sketched. So I knew I could use them this year too and didn't take many reference photos -- [sorry gentlemen, I forgot your names... I got your cards, but they seem to have vaporized].

Why am I so grateful?
Here is version one of Joan Dangerfield, with color:

Here is the final:

A subtle difference -- I thought Joan's gown had chiffon at the waist and sleeves. But after checking the photos, it realized it was all velvet. So much for my "photographic" memory!

Joan wanted to buy the sketch then and there. I asked her to wait so I could color it in.

All the fuss with the shooting me with the muses and the sketches kept pulling me out of my "drawing brain". So I became furtive and stopped sharing what I was doing. I even sketched one of the photographers, to practice a male drawing. They'll all slowly appear on Society6, like all the other sketches in the coloring queue.

More posts on the fashion show in the days to come -- stay tuned!

Foot Fetish Friday: Krizia Shoes

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Seeing the film "Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's" brought to mind my own Bergdorf's memories. This was a shoe that I obtained in the late? (maybe the mid) 80s. I drew it from memory on my iPad and concentrated on the golden scrolled piping detail on the vamp. Long gone, I wore them to shreds. Designed by Krizia, I'm sure they were super expensive. Lucky for me, I had a secret source. Richard dressed the Bergdorf windows then, and damaged goods couldn't go back on the selling floor. He gave these to Patucci, they were too small, so I got them.
I have a Krizia ad from W with the shoes pictured in it. If I ever find it, I'll add it to this post. Same for a photo of me in them. Smart phones weren't yet invented and we didn't take pictures of our feet that much (or at least I didn't).