~MissGaby
Artist | Professional | Traditional Art
Canada
Hi, I'm Gabrielle, I love caffeine and I am addicted to the color purple.
I work with words and pictures. Music is vital: it triggers my creativity. I usually title my creations (paintings, drawings, books) using lyrics floating in my head or whatever is playing. I work mainly in portraits and collages, and I love to draw from real life because it captures a moment and when you look at real life later you remember smells, sounds and feelings. I also adore photography, stencils, writing... I am pretty multidisciplinary. I have a university degree in visual arts and I intend to go back to school for more, this time in graphic design. Making moleskine covers and personnalizing my sketchbooks has always been my thing, the one I did outside of every homework and art project and kept doing. I've been making books (I call them cahiers, but they are sketchbooks/art journals) for over 6-7 years now, and plan to do so for the rest of my life.
I love looking out the window in the bus and wonder about the lives of people on the sidewalk. Some days, everyone is beautiful, and the rest of the time I do my best to find beauty in the tiny details we often overlook.
Current Residence: Montreal
Favourite genre of music: alternative
Favourite style of art: pop art, new realists, contemporary painting and drawing, design images
Interests
Favorite visual artist
Andy Warhol, C. Close, Kiki Smith, A. Messager, Jasper Johns, Johnny Depp,Rodney Graham, Boltanski
Favorite movies
Tim Burton's movies, X-Men, Stranger than Fiction, LOTR, Interview with a V., Across the Univer
Favorite TV shows
Dexter, True Blood, Grey's Anatomy, Dr. House, 24
Favorite bands / musical artists
Arctic Monkeys, Coldplay, Pierre L., NIN, Metric, Radiohead, Jethro Tull, Death from Above 1979
Favorite writers
Anne Rice, Diana Gabaldon, Laurell K. Hamilton, Charlaine Harris, J.K. Rowling, Marie Laberge
Favorite games
mario kart
Tools of the Trade
ink, watercolor, acrylic, glue, pen, pencils, moleskine..... journal and magazines cutout
Other Interests
cinema, tv shows, books (fantastic/horror), and PENS & notebooks are my personnal obsession, DIY