Cameron Silver on the Digital Catwalk

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I'm participating in a Surface Design blog hop over on Pattern Recognition. Over 40 artists and designers created print collections under the theme Tropical Fusion. The art all utilizes Pantone's Radiant Orchid. If you like prints, get yourself on over there -- there is a wonderful array of styles to see. You just might find a pillow or phone case that you can't live without!

As part of my presentation, I put my print designs onto a sketch. Cameron Silver, the owner of Decades in LA hovered in the back of my brain as my muse as I was putting my collection together. And I just happened to have sketched him last May before the Otis Benefit Show.

Here's how he looked last May:

And here he is for Spring 2014 in my Tropical Preppy collection:

To see the prints life size, click on over to Pattern Recognition.

Ah, it's Saturday night. Severo is playing a gig at B.B. King's in Times Square. I'm home blogging. Wish I were there and I don't mind being right where I am.

ps: See more (very small) pix of Cameron here on Patrick McMullan's photography site.

Tomboy Style and the Older, Larger Woman

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The Lucky Community asked us to blog about the Tomboy look.
Hmmm.
Is it possible to be old, overweight, wear mens clothing, and not look like a slob?
A challenge! Let's see what I can come up with!

What do you think of when you hear the word "tomboy"?
This perhaps:

that's me between my brothers, 1962

Not this:

I think to pull off a tomboy look, one needs to have a "boyish" figure: slim, athletic.
And for me, those days are long gone (despite what my mind says).
I certainly wear mens garments, however, as you already know.
And with a little effort, I can wear them out and about and not look too schlubby.

I found the boxers in the sample giveaway box at work and pounced on them. A rare 3-pack of XL [sample size is usually S] -- one even had my print design on it! Score!

details:
Severo's embroidered shirt: Cubavera, Ross [borrowed]
mens boxers: Michael Morgan, Fred Meyer [free sample from work]
leggings: BJ's [bought]
socks: Ross? [bought]
mary jane clogs: White Mountain [gift from Leslie]

Have you worn a tomboy look lately?
Join in on my 52 Pick-me-up -- this week's theme is Boyfriend/Girlfriend

Shop My Art Society6 Promotion

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You've been seeing my Society6 fashion sketch prints featured here on SpyGirl.

I wanted you to know that I just opened a new shop for my Pattern work, called Pattern Recognition by Anne M Bray.

Not only can you get prints (framed, unframed, or printed on stretched canvas), you can also get laptop and tablet skins, mobile and tablet cases, cards, and pillows.

I opened the shop with my "Taste Quilt Block" which features 3 images of cakes, combined in a quilt pattern. Yum!

Society6 is offering a free shipping promotion* this week on most of the products.
Promotion expires June 16, 2013 at Midnight Pacific Time.  
*Offer excludes Framed Art Prints, Stretched Canvases and Throw Pillows with insert.

I'm thinking of getting one of Heather's lush Beautiful Los Angeles prints for my own art collection!

Click here for SpyGirl's fashion sketch prints

Click here for Pattern Recognition prints

Click here for my fine art landscape prints

In the Mix

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tee - plumpynuts x Uniqlo
tunic - I designed and sewed it
socks - Happy Socks (same dot, different style)
shoes - White Mountain (gift from Leslie)

I ordered this tee on a whim. It's a plumpynuts x Uniqlo colab and only $19.90. I ordered a medium (I think large was sold out) and you can see it's very roomy! I think I'd even fit in a small. Yesterday I swanned around with it over my cityscape tunic and was very comfortable. It's an odd, deconstructed styling -- it's giving me some ideas for the scads of stripe sample yardage I've dragged home from work.

I'd never heard of plumpynuts before, but they do some cool designs. Here's the blurb about them from Uniqlo: After building their careers as designers at foundation addict from 2005 to 2008, Miyuki Omichi and Ayumi Kita started a new brand, plumpynuts, and opened their own boutique, SHOW CASE by plumpynuts, in Tokyo's jingumae area in 2009. In 2011, plumpynuts organized a first fashion show in VERSUS TOKYO, an industory event produced by Yuichi Yoshii. The plumpynuts brand specializes in high-quality, coquettish, and playful designs for women.
Here's their link.