ILLUSTRATOR CRUSH: Malika Favre

Hello friends!  Happy Friday, I can't wait for this weekend.  It feels like I've been super busy this week, and it will be nice to kick back with my family in the suburbs for a couple days (hehe, and swim in their pool)!  

Can you believe that tomorrow is the first day of June?  I certainly can't!  It seems like just yesterday I was with Pedro's family in Brazil ringing in the New Year.  Time, as always, is just flying by - seriously.  It's been a crazy ride.  But a really special crazy ride.. ahha.  

Today I have a new ILLUSTRATOR CRUSH and inspiration for you.

I've fallen in love with the work of Mailka Favre.  A French illustrator based in London, her work is full of stark lines, minimal colour and lots of movement.  I love the "flatness" to her work - the illustrations have a reductive + minimalist quality to them, and it's really great.  They are simple + bright + beautiful - and I can't stop looking at them.

​"My approach to illustration is about paring things down as much as possible.  I try and get to the essence of my subject by using as few lines and colours as it needs to convey the core of the idea."

- Malika Favre

Source: http://www.malikafavre.com/

MAMA LOVE

Happy Mother's Day to all the mamas out there!  You are so important to the little (and big) kids that you brought into this world.  Thanks for all that you do.​

​Thanks to my mom for being such a strong, beautiful, intelligent and all-around fantastic lady.  You are a wonderful role model, and am so proud to call you my mom.

​My mom inspires my work - all the time!  I did a photography project called, Memories of My Mother's, where I dug through her archive of photographs and recreated them.  I've also done a bunch of family illustrations using the photographs as reference.

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I'm so glad my mom worked to keep an organized family archive.  I think it's something really special, and am so lucky to have tangible reminders of the past.  Just another one of those things that she does...  So thanks mom - you're the best.