I did a piece for an article about small businesses struggling in small towns the NY Times Sunday Review—here is the link to the article and animated gif. Thanks AD Erich Nagler!
Hello, my name is Rebecca and I am a Brooklyn-based illustrator and zinester
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Yubistume:
—cutting off one’s fingertip to atone for a transgression, a trope of many Yakuza films. This piece is my submission to Sloane Leong’s Battles Without Honor and Humanity show, all art inspired by the cult Yakuza film genre. It will be held at Floating World Comics in Portland, OR, September 15th from 6 - 8PM! If you are in town, definitely check it out!
Unfinished Blondes
I have a few things in the works this week but none of them will be done soon so here have some pretty WIP’s
Funny Face: Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire and Kay Thompson, 1957
a little impromtu fan art of this cute movie, more at the blog»
A hypothetical story about a girl who rides a fixed-gear bike, who gets mixed up with a giant robot. I was thinking about what it would be like to see something monumental from a far distance in the dark, the line between a hallucination and objects obscured by atmospheric perspective. I am a big fan of The Iron Giant and FLCL, and “bike porn”—sexy pictures of sweet custom bikes, sexy girl optional.
Party
This is a still life of the home studio I’ve kept recently. It draws partially from real life and partially from symbolism, fantasy, and narrative.
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Been working on personal projects lately! Here’s a digital painting I did today. :>
A self-portrait in windows and corners. Thinking about Tacita Dean’s piece called “More or Less”, which I saw last night at the New Museum.
