Ladylike mementos dance across the pages of New York artist Aimee Bee Brooks. Her knack for using youthful materials, including colored pencils, and sketch papers with the textures of brown lunch sacks, to depict the winsome sides of female friendship and womanhood, graces the eye with an effortless charm.Brooks tells The Creators Project, "Pastel and charcoal pencils are my go to drawing tools, I never finish a piece without them. Some of my other tools include regular yellow graphite pencils, kneaded erasers, and very rarely gouache."
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Brooks' aesthetic is rooted partly in the past, as descibed by her digital portfolio. She says, "I find negative shapes to be visually appealing, I value white space in a drawing." Exhibited within the pages of zine, Color Theory, she also takes a cheeky approach to exploring the rainbow. The artist sprinkles polka-dots, heart outlines, and painted lips throughout her drawings, effectively bringing to mind a past, perhaps imaginary, that is light as gossamer and filled with streaming sunlight. Think of afternoons spent riding atop bicycle handlebars and peeking from behind cat-eye sunglasses. In fact, Brooks’ works could easily be imagined displayed inside a delicate frame, pinned over a childhood bed.
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