New Year’s Inspirations

So it’s the first day of the new year, and here is the January page of my new calendar. Pierre Mourgue’s Paris Fashions featured on the cover of British Vogue, March 1929.

The Twenties and Thirties are my favourite periods for fashion illustration. I love that in this case the medium, watercolour, is confined to the stylised shapes and geometric lines typical of Art Deco, rather than bleeding outside the lines in its usual haphazard way (although this can also be good, of course).

I am so pleased I chose this calendar in the end; I’m sure that it will be a continual source of inspiration throughout 2011. One of my resolutions will always be: Draw more; draw more!

I hope that your new year is similarly inspiring!