evening look -black and nude

black and nude by sabrinacabada featuring lip makeup

Miu Miu peplum top, $725 / J Brand jeans / Alejandro Ingelmo platform heels / Kate Spade quilted tote bag / Yves Saint Laurent black gold necklace / Lip makeup / Gucci fragrance, $51

painting of the day: "Crown" by Will Cotton

I have admired Will Cotton's pink cotton candy cloud paintings way before Katy. Below is Katy Perry's California Gurls video which is greatly influenced by Cotton's paintings. My kids love Perry's music but me.... not so much.

Will Cotton, CROWN, 2012, oil on linen, 80 x 68 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Mary Boone Gallery

Will Cotton is an American painter. His work primarily features landscapes composed of sweets, often inhabited by human subjects. Will Cotton lives and works in New York City.

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goodbye summer

Sunshine 12" x 36" acrylic on canvas by me

Painting of the Day: "Summer Relations" by Philip Barlow

South African painter, Philip Barlow has captured the soft focus effect very well. Love it.

Summer Relations,  oil on canvas, 70 x 100cm by Philip Barlow

The figures in the landscape serve as carriers and reflectors of the light that falls upon them. Bathed in the luminosity, it is my hope that they would become more beautiful. To me, light is the ultimate subject because it embodies the pinnacle of all reality.

Love this beach house

Sorry it has been so long since my last post. Must be summer....... but i'm back on track.

My family will soon be leaving for our annual week long beach trip. A nice place in Ocean Isle, NC but this house is adorable. What do you think?

A Warm, Natural, and Modern Beach House

Creating a home on Shelter Island, New York for his family, architect Cary Tamarkin paired back design ideas to the essentials. He simplified the house by using concrete floors, built-in furniture, and lots of wood. The interior decorating is by their neighbor, designer Suzanne Shaker.

House Beautiful

Painting of the Day: A painting by Mary Sauer

I admire Sauer's concept of painting modern women in modern settings. The background is as interesting as the subject. I like the use of white in this particular oil painting. My preference is the large scale oil paintings to her small portraits.

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As she builds her large scale impressionistic paintings in oil on canvas, Mary Sauer’s subjects are posed with an elegant grace within highly structured settings. They are softly illuminated with a nod to the idealized imagery of the 1950s and commissioned portraiture.

Born in Hanson, KY and now living in Manhattan, NY, Sauer’s upbringing in a conservative Christian home centers her art with a sense of traditional family values, as she gives honor to the role of mothers in society while exploring the unexpected challenges placed on women through the feminist movement.


more of Mary Sauer-

Thanks Mimosa Lane blog

Good Morning! Today I am reposting a post from mimosalaneblog.blogspot.com. Thanks Albertina and Julie.

ART TO OUTFIT- PICNIC OUTING

I'm in love with this painting by Sabrina Cabada.  It is mesmerizing.  I love the complementary colors- red and green.  They make a powerful statement in a non-christmassy kind of way. Aside from the outfit, I'm insisting on reading a lot of classics this summer (maybe its because I'm feeling guilty for having read Fifty Shades of Grey?) and with those cute designs who wouldn't want to have those cute books adorning your bookcases when you are done?  

So back to the outfit- Adorable espadrilles, check, cute necklace, check, cool shorts and top, check, reading treasures, check, blanket, check, refreshing watermelon, of course!  

I hope you have a great one!

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