L.Silberman Works

Here are a couple of images I’ve done recently for a series entitled “When I Grow Up…” This will feature various animals and what their people think they’d enjoy being in our world. If I finish the series and do anything with it, a portion of the proceeds will go towards animal rights groups.

Echo the Gangster

Echo thinks the world should stop for him,

not understanding how the chances might be slim.

He trots around as if he was tough and in charge,

Marking his territory and living quite large.

He doesn’t really need a tommy gun,

a zoot suit, or a flashy fedora,

since he can already bark, bite, and run

coupled with a wink that says “I adore ya!”

All images and writing copyright 2009 Lauren Silberman

Finley the Mountain Climber

Finley leaps to the top of sofas and tables,
Jumps across rooms and high over cables.
He pictures his paws jammed into a crag,
Breathing in clouds and birds he can tag.
Climbing to reaches where a human might plummet
As he tops Everest, K2, and Mount McKinley.
Daily, he achieves new pinnacles and new summits
“Brave, strong, – the adventurer!” they call our dog Finley.

All images and writing copyright 2009 Lauren Silberman

Daisy the Harley Girl

Everyday Daisy watches as others swarm by -
some on bikes, some in cars, and some who actually fly,
She imagines what it’d be like to go beyond fast
continuing further than her legs can currently last.
She would take the world by storm -
zooming past tall cities, clear lakes, and fields of barley;
everyone impressed by her metallic sleek form
as she blows them kisses from her brand new Harley.

All images and writing copyright 2009 Lauren Silberman

Here’s my latest papercut, entitled, simply, Dragon. As with all of my work, this piece is copyrighted to me.

I am trying out a new art form (well, new for me – actually an old art form). Commonly known as papercutting, this art is also known as “Scherenschnitte (German), Kirigami, Kiri-e, or Mon-kiri (Japanese), Sen-shi or Hua Yang (Chinese), Wycinanki (Polish), Mizrah (Hebrew), Papel Picado (Spanish), Decoupeur (French) or Papytomania (American)” (courtesy of scherenschnitte, the yahoogroups for papercutting). Here are some new pieces:

Miriam

In honor and celebration of Edgar Allan Poe’s 200th birthday: The Raven

In honor and celebration of Edgar Allan Poe’s 200th birthday: Annabel Lee

I meant to post these awhile ago but didn’t have a chance to scan them in.

(From http://drsketchysbaltimore.wordpress.com)

• What is Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School?

  Dr. Sketchy’s is a chain of cabaret life-drawing sessions that circles the globe from Hollywood to New Zealand. Started by Molly Crabapple in 2005, Dr. Sketchy’s is based on Molly’s harebrained dream of a “decadent” art class with fair pay and respect for the models and boozy fun for all.

• What is Dr. Sketchy’s – Baltimore?

  Dr. Sketchy’s – Baltimore is Baltimore’s local branch run by Alexis de la Rosa and Aaron Bush, hon. This means that not only can you attend a lasciviously decadent life drawing session on the second Sunday of every month, you could also get mugged, shot at by the police, lose your house in a shady real estate deal, or install a questionable statue at the local train station. Dr. Sketchy’s is responsible for none of that, by the way.

This is an illustration I did for the Jack and Jill scene of Fluid Movement’s 2008 water ballet.

This is the second drawing I did at the Body Worlds exhibit of the yoga woman.

So Body Worlds 2 is showing at the Maryland Science Center, and they are running a sketch competition. I felt kind of like Michelangelo when he (illegally) dissected human corpses to study their anatomy. Here is the sketch I did on Saturday of a dissected, plasticized ballet dancer.

I’m starting a new series of paintings about an all female circus sideshow. Here is the first one, The Bellydancer (surprise, surprise on the name, right?).