Boats on the Belize River

Well I've got a story to share.

"By the way, I was by myself. Everyone was talking and I was sitting by the water. Anyways he was like:

 “You see this here, was all made by the hands of our people. These boats were built on our land, to send to others, everything from scratch. We used mahogany and rose wood mostly; but now we can’t use those. So we have to use fiber glass, but I prefer the wood, it feels better with it’s done. This, this is art. This is beauty.”

photo by Sean Escobar

A friend of mine was telling me a story that he knew I would enjoy. Considering it’s about one of my favorite scenes in Belize City, I did enjoy it, a lot. 

I live in a very beautiful country, that comes with amazing stories. 

A truly inspiring place. 

Hope you all enjoy this short update. It's summer so let's see how much I'll post this year! Bare with me folks, I'll try my best.

xo

Lesley

Wasteland: The Interview by Ms. Hadeel

No lie, my friend is amazing! This interview is great and if definitely captures how whimsical i can be!! The end product of this interview is stellar! So with out further ado, ladies and gentlemen, Wasteland: The Interview, By Ms. Hadeel 

Again Photo and Video credit goes to : Ms. Hadeel 

mshadeel.com

youtube: hado

Enjoy!
xo
Lesley

Wasteland: Photo Tour

I had an interview today with my friend and fellow blogger, Ms. Hadeel. It was great getting to talk about my art, and sharing what the pieces mean to me. Hopefully by tomorrow I can get a link to that interview for you guys, then by the end of the week i can get a video tour of the show done. For now here's a photo tour of what's up for my exhibition.

Wasteland

Liquor Bottle

 

Vision Series #1

Just a Machine

The Happiest Place on Earth

The Wasteland Series

Vision Series #2

This is Classy

Food Series

Balloon Installation

Wasteland Promo Wall

Smoke Box Series

Vision Series #3

 

Eye

Photo Credit: Hadeel Suliman

http://www.mshadeel.com/

Enjoy

xo

Lesley

Wasteland

I'm done making up excuses. Finding time to blog while trying to be a student is hard. Especially when you've been busy preparing for your final project as a college student. The last time I posted I put up a glimpse of what I was working on for my senior project, and now here I am about four months later with that entire project finished and up.

It's been a wild ride to get to this point, and I am beyond happy with how it turned out. I spent countless hours sketching, painting, printing, cutting, gluing, and building to get everything together for this show. I also had many sleepless night because of over stressing about it, but in the end it was all worth it (sort of, i mean I'll never get back those sleepless nights!).

I have 5 more days as a college senior left, 5 days to present my senior thesis, hand in my last paper, and present my show (to what seems like it will be a lot of people now because everyone says they're coming!). I'm finally done with school, and I've created something I'm proud of to end it with.

I'll post more pictures of the show tomorrow. I have to go finish writing my thesis paper now (yes i still haven't learned to not procrastinate after all this time in college).

Xo
Lesley

Oh! Hey look! here's a bonus picture of me taking a break while setting up my show. *thumbs up!* it was an exhausting job, but a pleasure nonetheless.

ART: Here's some good stuff.

Boy it's been a while hasn't it? Oh yes a very long while. 

The past two months were pretty rough I would say. I had some ups and some downs but I'm making the most out of it. And definitely making some good art pieces as a result. I moved back to Iowa for my senior year at UIU! Guys I have less than 7 months until I'm done with college! And I'm fully focused on making some hella amazing art and sharing it with you all.

I have ideas that are beyond explaining at this point and thinking about them makes me super excited. I'm just ready to crank out new things in preparation for my show next year. I've been sketching daily, my mind has been on overdrive. And I jut can't wait to get everything down on paper. 

For now I'll just keep posting my little sketches and ideas and hope for maybe some feedback? Leave me comments on what you think, I hope everyone's ready to go on this journey with me for the next 7 months.

Here's an end of summer present.

I started painting again at the end of summer

 self portrait? hm....

The few sketches i did at the end of summer.

February 24th- March 7th =] 

and just a taste.

XO

Lesley

Tunes: Philipp Gorbachev

So thanks to Chanel's Fall/ Winter 2013/14 ready to wear runway show I've been pretty much all into Philipp Gorbachev's music. It's pretty much all that's playing on my iTunes for the past couple of weeks. I'm digging it so you should go check him out.

Also i know I've been promising an update on my summer sketch a day posts, and i promise it's not an empty promise. I do need to Catch up, I've pretty much been slacking off since the 4th. Maybe i hit you all up with an update on that later tonight.

I do hope everyone's having a smashing summer!
Xo
Lesley

Movie: Troop Beverly Hills

I loved this move Growing up. So if you can check it out, i'm glad i got to after so many years of not seeing it.

(Thanks to Nylon Magazine for mentioning it in their blog this week!)

I absolutely love how fabulous this movie is and how even when Phyllis Nefler is put down and is expected to fail she shows that she can rough it out and pull though, while being the best dressed troop leader of all time!

I loved the unconventional patches she gave to her troop, (I'd take an amazing shopper patch over a great fire builder patch any day!) honestly if there was really a troop like this I would have joined when i was a kid.  Seriously, though, this movie is stellar an in  my opinion it's totally worth the watch. 

So yeah... check it out.

There's gonna be an update with my sketch-a-day sometime later this week.

XO

Lesley