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Name:
Bella Pilar
Location:
Los Angeles, California
Web Sites:
www.bellapilar.com
www.magnetreps.com
Influences/Inspiration:
my husband (a true artist himself). fashion magazines (endless inspiration for me. i save every one i buy). television- (especially a good 'makeover' show). a book store/museum shop. shopping. sitting at the coffee shop sketching.
Top 5 favorite things in life:
husband, family, friends. going home to NYC. ice latte (and settling
in with it for hours at the coffee shop with my sketchbook and fashion
magazines) food. makeup.
Top 5 bands/singers:
anything I listened to in high school still lingers around the stereo- the smiths, bauhaus, siouxsie, X, janes addiction.
Bella was born and raised in New York City. she moved out west with her husband two years ago and currently paints out of her studio in Los Angeles, with many mini escapes back home to NYC for doses of inspiration. Bellas whimsical feminine illustrations are created in gouache (watercolor). Her work has appeared in all sorts of places- advertising (hewlet packard), magazines (cosmo girl), retail display (Macys NY), licensing and greeting cards (marcel schurman), galleries, and the many walls of friends and family. Her strong ties to fashion began with a degree in fashion design, followed by work doing fashion styling and designing retail window displays, and then a career as a makeup artist in New York City and Los Angeles, all before going on to her true love, illustration.
Bellas work can currently be seen in the newly published Taschen book 'ILLUSTRATION NOW!' ... go check it out.
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