A friend is like a lollipop. XO, Chloe Pink

 

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Chloe Pink for Girls Inc. of Greater Atlanta

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It's not the destination that matters.....

Follow your dreams, girl and don't forget! It helps to have a real friend to support you along the way. I know, because I have Pete! He believes in me no matter what. He goes with me no matter where I want to go. He likes me for who I am. Everybody needs at least someone like him in their corner....or in this case, my bicycle basket! Thanks Pete! Hang on. Here we go! XO, Chloe Pink





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Chloe Pink™ Every Other Daily: 1/28/11

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Chloe Pink's cut and paste job with strawberry ice cream

Here's a "rough" I did this morning at the Loganville Starbucks--my favorite place to concept and doodle and drink coffee other than the Chloe Pink studio.

I plan to turn this pen and ink drawing into a gouache illustration. So, I did a color test on it when I got home.

After using at least a gillion magic markers...hard to believe they make that many colors...but they do -- it was time to scan. But the picture was incomplete without the Chloe Pink ruffled ribbon logoette.

Unfortunately, I did the drawing too close to the top of the page in my sketchbook, leaving no room for the mark.

So, I trimmed down the sketch. Next, looking for a way to salvage the piece, I drew and cut-out the mark, too. Then, I pasted the two elements down on a contrasting sheet of grocery store bag paper. You know, like the kind you bring home cartons of ice cream in....Hmmm. This is looking sorta like a collage, I thought to myself. What else could I add? What would Chloe Pink need with her besides Pete at the ice cream shop? A napkin of course! And what if Chloe Pink's strawberry ice cream dripped on it?

Bummer though. No ice cream -- not even chocolate in the freezer. Just as well. Pete's a dog and shouldn't be eating chocolate. So, I tried a smudge of strawberry jam instead. But that didn't work. Not opaque or pink enough either. I had to make strawberry ice cream the new fashioned way...by mixing white and red gouache paint together to make pink.

Now it's time to put all my magic markers away and do the drawing on watercolor paper for tomorrow. There's a few elements I'll change, but basically I have the main composition down.

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Meet Brooklyn

She's booksmart. She's chic. She's Chloe Pink's left brained, fashion conscious friend.







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Friend "count"

Friendship has always been important to me. Having a few people to share my dreams and struggles with over a cup of joe magically makes life better. Which brings me to Facebook, the social network of friends galore. As much as I like FB, I do think the whole "friend" thing is a bit silly. I mean, c'mon. 96 Friends? Really? 96? And that number is actually eency compared to some of my other FB friends with more than 1,000 friends. Also, many of my 96 FB "friends," I've never even met face-to-face. They're biz associates of associates of associates of associates. Or, they're people I went to high school with and don't remember from those prehistoric, pre-wired days. On the other hand, Facebook does give me opportunities to get to know people I already know just a little bit better. Sometimes that's good and sometimes that's bad. If you know what I'm sayin'. And I'm sure that works both ways. Like, I wonder what my FB friends think of me and my Chloe Pink posts, etc. on my Facebook page? Who knows. Oh well. Gotta run. I'm meeting a friend--A real friend. For dinner. In person.

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