It can be something to do on a bright afternoon

I was on a roll so I just *had to* make a few more:
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Cynthia Bauzon Arre artwork 2008
“Summer’s Child”; “Preppy in Pink”
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Cynthia Bauzon Arre artwork 2008
“Scooter Sister”; “Lazy Daisy”
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Cynthia Bauzon Arre artwork 2008
“Easy Breezy”; “Pup Princess”
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They’re already at my Cafepress and Printfection stores and it would mean a lot to me if you could help spread the word about them. 🙂
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Oh! So Girly at Cafepress
On Cafepress at The Paper Basket
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Oh So Girly at Printfection
On Printfection. PF actually has a wider selection of t-shirt styles and colors so opening a store there as well seemed like a good idea.
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Since I’m already pimping like crazy here, might as well go the whole nine yards and urge you to check out my new merch at Poptastic, including this design based on a quote from a popular late 2007 movie:
He is the cheese to my macaroni.
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A pile of to-dos for the next issue of our mag has crept up on me so I can’t stay long. Meanwhile, let me leave you with a playlist1 I made to go with the girly illustrations I just bombarded you with. Cheerio. 🙂

  1. Click on the link if the music player takes too long to load.[ back]
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And I feel so free, yeah I feel alright.

Last week when I was organizing my workspace, I found some of my raggedy old sketchbooks1 and suddenly got a burst of inspiration to pick up a pencil and draw for no specific reason — not for a job requirement and not for anything other than fun. I’ve been trained2 to sit in front of the computer and work, work, work for so long that I was concerned that I didn’t know how to draw in freewheeling fashion anymore; you know, draw without having to think if it’s “marketable”, “on-strat”, or “what the client wants”. I’m the “client” in this case. My Arn3, the true artist in the household, says that sketching is just like riding a bike4 — once the ability is in you, it’ll always be in you — and that one should never overthink what he or she doodles.
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Armed with that thought, I sat down and came up with the following. Don’t ask me why I decided to draw cutesy girls in nippy weather wear, that’s just what came out. Maybe I’ve been listening to too much Swedish pop?
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Cynthia Arre art (set 1)
“Jumper Girl”; “Scarfed Sweetie”
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Cynthia Arre art (set 2)
“Kitten-Smitten”; “Mittened Miss”
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Cynthia Arre art (set 3)
“Bohemian Belle”; “Pleated Posh”
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And because I’m ever the multi-tasker, I just had to slap the illustrations onto some items over at my shop The Paper Basket so do feel free to spread the love and purchase a tee or two if you like. 🙂
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Oh! So girly
Clickety here.
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Now to prove that I never really stop working, here’s a real project. Lori of Dessert Comes First, one of my favorite food blogs, recently asked me to design headers for her website using photos that she took. The food shots were gorgeous so I made a simple template to allow the images to do the “talking”.
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Dessert Comes First header designs
Yummy, huh? The fourth one is my favorite – photo and layout-wise.
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Fortunately she liked 5 of the 6 studies I submitted so I suggested that maybe she can ask her programmer to make them all load randomly each time the page refreshes, kind of like what I did for my friend Tippi‘s site. I’m happy to see that it’s now being implemented. 🙂

  1. Back from when I was a college freshman so hello, that was 20 years ago![ back]
  2. By my OC self. There’s no one else to blame, really.[ back]
  3. He’s the other way around, he churns out illustrations like they’re liquid.[ back]
  4. Yet another activity I haven’t done in years. Let’s see if that metaphor is true… [ back]
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I'm Cynthia Bauzon-Arre, a Filipino watercolor artist & graphic designer. I live in QC with my graphic novelist husband Arnold and our friendly marmalade tabby Abbas. This blog has been chronicling my life, likes, and loves since 2001. [ more ]

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