Guest Art! (Extra Goody #4)

Mildred Loves Extra Goodies
(A Grabbag of Miscellaneous Thises and Thatses)

Extra Goody #4 - "Guest Art by Matthias Pflügner and Steffi Schütze!"


The convenient thing about being an illustration or a virtual character is that you can be zapped from one place to another in the blink of an eye. Your form and texture can also be altered with very little effort on the part of those doing the altering. And the possibility you have of being in two places at the same time is easily understood by all - without discussions of Quantum Physics or multi-dimensions getting into the mix.

This is how it is possible for my creation, Mildred Mahler, to have been together with Matthias Pfluegner (aka Johnny "Mulholland" Fitz) in New York City day before yesterday wishing me (LaLaVox aka Laura Carleton) a Happy Birthday, while at the same time existing in glamorous vector realms created by the fabulous Steffi Schueltze, and replying to birthday greetings on my behalf over at FaceBook to boot. It must be quite a kick being so effortlessly multi-dimensional!

...But speaking of birthdays: www.mildredlovesyou.com had a birthday of its own day before yesterday too. Unfortunately I was so busy attending to my own birthday that I failed to celebrate this in a timely fashion.

I'm not sure exactly when MildredLovesYou.com actually came into existence - as it was only one page with a few images and the promise of things to come for the longest time. But I do know exactly when the first pin-up in the Mildred Loves Pin-Ups series (previously known as The Monday Pin-Up) began: on June 16th, 2008. Which means that the Mildred Loves Pin-Ups series just turned two day before yesterday.

I think I will try to make a bit more of an effort for Mildred Loves Pin-Ups series' 3rd birthday - since 3 is such a nice number. But luckily for me, this time around Steffi and Matthias have come to my rescue with their wonderful guest-artist portrayals of our no.1 MildredLovesYou.com gal. Here they are again, but this time in the format they were meant to be viewed in, and with added artist-info links (click to see the larger website-sized versions)...


Steffi Schuetze @
Miss Matzenbatzen's Blogspot.com + Nauck & Schuetze Illustration
Mildred Loves You! blogspot posts about Steffi Scheutze:
Steffi Schuetze, Happy Meat (aka Cecelie Ellefsen), Kirsten Ulve, and Gordon Laite
Steffi Schuetze and Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin


Matthias Pfluegner @
www.pfluegner.net + www.keingeschenk.de/
aka Johnny "Mulholland" Fitz @
Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin
Mildred Loves You! blogspot posts about Matthias Pfluegner aka Johnny "Mulholland" Fitz + Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin:
Dr. Sketchy no. 8 will have to wait!
Dr. Sketchy Berlin no.7 (Mermaid Time!)
Saturday's Berlin Burlesque Double Feature
Season's Greetings from your Dr. Sketchy Berlin Team!
Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin, Dec. 2009 + Dr. Sketchy NYC Season's Greetings
Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin - Nov., '09
Dr. Sketchy's Berlin + Site Updates

...By the way - while I'm still on the subject of Steffi and Matthias and Mildred here...

Steffi has been giving Matthias a course in vector-graphics, and back in February he asked me if he could borrow a drawing of Mildred for a vector excercise. His post about this experience (for those of you who can read German) can be found here. And here's a preview of his vectorization process and its results:





And, yes - those of you who follow this site will have recognized Jochen Kronier's alien platform boots from Mildred Loves Pin-Ups #34 and Mildred Loves Fashion #1... ;)

Hugs + kisses,

LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com
The LaLaVox Doodle Diary
[edit: March 28th, 2011]
Because of problems with my current mildredlovesyou.com domain host, I have set my Mildred Loves You site up at an alternate address for for safe-keeping (but am still hoping that my mildredlovesyou.com domain will go back online at some point anyway)...
www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou.html

p.s. Since posting this, I've discovered that Steffi has posted about her guest art (and about MLY.com) over at her blog as well. And she's added the preliminary sketch - as she always does. Here's a preview of it, with a link to the blog entry itself! :)

Steffi Schütze, Happy Meat (aka Cecelie Ellefsen), Kirsten Ulve, and Gordon Laite

I simply must sing the praises of Steffi Schütze once again (who I've had the great pleasure of finally meeting in the meantime; here's my previous post about her). She's begun doing a fashion series in her wonderful vector technique that I just love! Here are a few of my favorites from her more recent work...



I met Cecelie Ellefsen (aka Happy Meat) several years ago at one of those wonderful Pictoplasma Conferences. Her work is delightful and subtly terrifying (in a charming and disarming sort of way). If you have not heard of her before then I suggest you trot right on over to her her website and her Esty shop posthaste!



And I am a long-time fan of the very wonderful Kirsten Ulve. Her vector illustrations bowl me over again and again. Here's a small collection of a few of my favorites from along the way...



Oddly enough, when I first discovered her work a number of years ago, it reminded me of illustrations from a favorite Big Golden Book of fairy tales from my childhood. The styles are very different really, but something about the coloring, mood, and layering of some of Kirsten Ulve's work made me think back on that book of fairy tales, and made me wonder if she had perhaps been influenced by it in some way. ...These, for example:



I emailed her at the time wondering about this, and was very pleased to actually get a reply. She was not familiar with the book, she said, but thanked me for introducing her to this particular illustrator's beautiful work. The Big Golden Book in question had copyrights for 1959, 1960, 1962, was called FIVE FAIRY TALES, and was illustrated exquisitely and stylishly by a man named Gordon Laite. Here is some of the work from the book that perhaps caused me to think that Ms. Ulve could possibly have been influenced by him (though I don't know if anyone but me will see why I might have thought such a thing)...



I would like to (and intend to) blog in more detail about Mr. Laite at some point in the future, but for now I will simply point the way to two very generous Gordon-Laite-related posts at the Illustration Station blog:

Gordon Laite
pictures from The Blue Book of Fairy Tales - 1959

Gordon Laite
pictures from More Tales To Tremble By - 1968


Cheers, LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com
[edit: March 28th, 2011]
Because of problems with my current mildredlovesyou.com domain host, I have set my Mildred Loves You site up at an alternate address for for safe-keeping (but am still hoping that my mildredlovesyou.com domain will go back online at some point anyway)...
www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou.html

Steffi Schütze and Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin

LaLaVox here once again... I discovered Steffi Schütze's work when someone at a very nice art and photography forum that I belong to posted one of her illustrations there. I subscribed to her blog and one day a post came up featuring Tronicat la Miez. I had just posed as The Singing Mermaid at the last Hedoluxe-hosted Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School in Berlin back in mid-May and had met Tronicat there. It was fun for me to realize that Steffi - who's work I'd been admiring so much since discovering it - had been in the audience that night drawing us.

Hedoluxe, who hosts Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Hamburg, decided back in May that he no longer wanted continue trying to host a Dr. Sketchy's in Berlin as well (he lives in Hamburg after all), and the post has now been taken over by Matthias Pflügner. And here's where Steffi comes in again. Matthias P. asked her to illustrate the poster for the next Dr. Sketchy's in Berlin; and what a delightful poster it is too:



The first Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin under Matthias Pflügner's care will be premiering on Saturday, October 10th at 3pm at White Trash Fast Food, and is planned as a regular monthly event there. I'm really looking forward to it! For one thing, I'm very much looking forward to meeting Steffi Schütze in person at last. And I'm looking forward to being in the crowd drawing once again instead of up onstage posing in mermaid garb... ;)


Dr. Sketchy's Anti Art School Berlin, May 2009
Hosts: Molly Crabapple and Hedoluxe
Models: Hedoluxe, Hay Dee Sparks, Xarah von den Vielenregen,
The Singing Mermaid, Molly Crabapple, Marz Star,
Clea Cutthroat (aka Mollie Black), and Tronicat la Miez
Photos: Alan Smithee and Alan Smithee Jr.

Cheers, LaLaVox
www.mildredlovesyou.com

p.s. Although Hedoluxe is no longer hosting Dr. Sketchy's events in Berlin, a little birdie has told me that he will be amongst the models posing in October... :)

p.p.s. - [update: added Aug.6th,2010 - The Singing Mermaid now has a website]
www.mildredlovesyou.com/loreleivanora.html

[edit: March 28th, 2011]
Because of problems with my current mildredlovesyou.com domain host, I have set my Mildred Loves You site up at an alternate address for for safe-keeping (but am still hoping that my mildredlovesyou.com domain will go back online at some point anyway)...
www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou.html
www.lalavoxbox.com/mildredlovesyou/loreleivanora.html