Home Sweet Home illustrations WRITTEN BY MEGIN POTTER PHOTOS PROVIDED
Reality can be messy. Illustrations give us the gift of seeing things as we want them to be. Rarely, does a home look the way we imagine it does. Our memory of a place has a funny way of highlighting the parts we feel emotionally connected to and forgetting about the parts that we don’t. Until we see a photograph, we tend to forget that a tree in full bloom – as beautiful as it may be – hides most of the house from view. We may imagine our gardens as flourishing with flowers, when in reality, they’re a bit sparse. “That’s what I can do as an illustrator – switch seasons, add flowers, move trees – for the best picture. I can make it so you actually have a much prettier representation of the house,” said Marcie Slot.
FASHIONABLE & PERSONALIZED HOME PORTRAITS For more than 35 years, Marcie Slot has been creating home portraits, architectural renderings and illustrations. Although she has been interested in architecture since she was a child, she began her career as a fashion illustrator. One of Slot’s first commercial building illustrations was of fashion retailer, Peter Harris. At the time, she had two young children, so she began working from photographs and blueprints to create oneof-a-kind architectural illustrations at her in-home studio and selling them to real estate agents, builders, and homeowners across the country. Working in watercolor, acrylic, colored pencils and pen & ink, she creates detailed pictures of structures and their surroundings. Since 2008, she has been adding computer renderings into her repertoire, but still prefers the flexibility and intimacy of hand-drawn illustrations.
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