Cara Buchalter

• Industry: Arts
• Occupation: Illustrator
• Location: Portland : Oregon : United States

About Me

Welcome to Octavine Illustration! My goal is to construct a world of retro images based on the Art Deco form. I garner inspiration from the sensuous lines of Art Deco haute couture; classic silhouettes of sleek sophistication. Imagine the 1930s era of Hollywood beauty queens, the Chrysler Building and the Duesenberg. Style and craftsmanship reigned supreme, nurturing the creation of a product solely for its beauty. That is Octavine Illustration. Custom orders/commissions are always welcome.

Interests

• History
• Art Deco
• Art Nouveau
• Erte
• Fonts
• Calligraphy
• music
• Portland
• Degas
• Urban Art
• Matisse
• public art
• The New Yorker
• Atlantic Monthly
• Vogue
• murals
• lithography
• fonts
• Jazz Age
• illustration
• handmade
• Etsy
• New York
• 1920s
• 1930s
• Paris
• France
• travel
• reading
• Europe
• art history
• pop art
• New Mexico
• Oregon
• Portland
• Albuquerque
• Dixieland
• Middle East
• Israel
• Jerusalem
• architecture
• Turkey
• Egypt
• Morocco
• Croatia
• Slovenia
• Great Britain
• Graphic Design
• Hebrew
• Couture
• Dior
• Mucha
• Gaudi
• Barcelona
• Istanbul
• Seattle
• San Francisco
• Art
• Chanel
• Screenprinting
• Poster Design
• Album Art
• Hebrew Calligraphy
• Old Hollywood
• John Singer Sargent
• Hollywood Beauty Queens
• Silent Movies
• Buzby Berkeley
• Gothic Architecture
• Victorian Architecture
• Broadsides
• Steichen
• Bakelite
• Fornasetti
• Moleskine
• Lalique
• Ketubah
• Letterpress
• Spain
• tea
• West Coast
• Prague
• London
• Amsterdam
• Avant-garde
• Antique Jewelry
• Estate sales
• etsy.com
• handmade

Favorite Movies

• His Girl Friday
• Goodfellas
• Short Cuts
• Annie Hall
• Gone With the Wind
• Absolutely Fabulous
• BBC
• The Royal Tenenbaums
• Grey Gardens
• Brideshead Revisited
• Before Sunrise
• I Heart Huckabees
• Moulin Rouge
• Pride and Predjudice
• Boogie Nights
• Gladiator
• Trading Places
• Roman Holiday
• The Departed
• Forsyte Saga
• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane
• The Big Lebowski

Favorite Music

• Belle and Sebastian
• Arcade Fire
• Islands
• Lucinda Williams
• Devotchka
• SXSW
• Wolf Parade
• The Shaky Hands
• Of Montreal
• Neutral Milk Hotel
• Devendra Banhart
• Velvet Underground
• Decemberists
• Iron and Wine
• Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
• Tapes and Tapes
• New Pornographers
• Dolly Parton
• Walkmen
• The Smiths
• Yo La Tengo
• Bob Dylan
• Envelopes
• Edith Piaf
• Beirut
• My Morning Jacket
• Spoon
• Devotchka
• Loch Lomond
• Elliot Smith
• Nico
• Cat Power
• Magnetic Fields
• Tom Waits
• Johann Sebastian Bach
• David Bowie
• The Shins
• Radiohead
• Magnetic Fields
• Sufjan Stevens
• Camera Obscura
• Beck
• Wilco
• Wolf Parade
• Catpower
• Magnetic Fields

Favorite Books

• Piano Tuner
• Devil in the White City
• Great Expectations
• Brideshead Revisited
• House of Spirits
• Agatha Christie
• Jane Eyre
• Me Talk Pretty One Day
• Pride and Prejudice
• Vanity Fair
• A Farewell to Arms
• This Side of Paradise
• P.D. James
• Historical Fiction
• Zadie Smith
• Leaves of Grass
• Walt Whitman
• Robert Graves
• Joseph Campbell
• The Pallisers
• Middlemarch
• David Sedaris
• Dave Eggers
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Trollope
• The Awakening
• Kate Chopin

Cara Buchalter's Blogs

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