Whenever I’m in the exact right mode of getting these drawings out, it’s like a meditation where I look at the subject and don’t really look at the paper. It’s so much more black and white in terms of what is coming out of you. With writing you’re actually writing words.
#Zazu talks free#
It takes me a good hour to get to this certain spot where my brain is free flowing and everything just comes out.īut I found with the drawing I can get there quicker. It’s literally like a ritual that I go through. I have to have eaten and feel good and have complete silence or instrumental music. I can’t let my brain go really out there and abstract and unravel if my room is unraveled. It sounds really stupid, but my room has to be clean. With writing or drawing, I have to create my own little world, basically, and I have to have all these things in line before I can do it. How does the creative process behind your drawing compare to the creative process behind writing a song? I pushed myself a lot further with my writing than I had ever done before. … It was a whole other way of facing myself.ĭrawing would take my brain into a way more abstract visual place that would help me with the writing. I was doing a lot of self-portraits, and it was like looking at myself in the mirror, literally. It was 40 pieces out of a body of like 250 drawings that I did over the course of the time that I was writing the album. I would definitely say that I have more years on that than I do on playing music.
I’ve always been someone who does a lot of different kinds of visual art, especially drawing. My parents are both artists, and I had a pencil in my hand since I could hold a pencil. At times it seemed like the conversation was another one of her long art therapy sessions, as though she was hashing out some thoughts that never quite made it onto the page or canvas.Ĭan you tell me a little bit about the art that you’re doing outside of the band? Zazu talked for almost an hour about her drawings, songwriting and how much of herself she puts into her art. The band has come a long way since their self-titled debut album, which has much more of a country twang and includes lyrics like, “I got drunk and I ate a chicken.” Many of the songs on the band’s third and most recent album, “Blur the Line,” come from Zazu’s drawing and journaling sessions.
#Zazu talks series#
She originally began the series simply to improve her drawing but quickly realized that it also helped her dig deeper with song writing. In August, she exhibited 40 of her large-scale oil pastel gesture drawings, most of which are self-portraits. But lately she’s been drumming up attention for a different venture. YOU CANNOT GO WRONG WITH THIS AMAZING TEAM! My main contact was Samantha who answered my emails, phone calls and texts ASAP and made sure I knew what was going on at all times.Jessi Zazu is best known for singing and playing guitar in Those Darlins, a garage rock band from Nashville, Tenn. On a personal note, the most important things: they were all on time to the venue (which is so important) and the women were so friendly and warm and listened to the requests of what each girl wanted and executed a flawless victory. After putting in the extensions, she gave me these gorgeous old-Hollywood Marilyn Monroe looking waves that completed my look, stayed even through a light drizzle outside during the ceremony and was still looking good even after I was sweating from dancing!
Honestly, I had never felt as beautiful as I did on my wedding day.Ĭharli did my hair (she’s my hairstylist normally at Zazu so she came that day special just for me) and she made sure before the wedding that I had ordered the correct extensions (color, shape and length – thank God too because there’s so much to choose from online!). Further, they even left us a bit of touch up makeup and hair supplies just in case!Īs the bride, Mallory was the one who applied my makeup and I cannot stress enough how her work took my breath away when I finally saw myself in the mirror… The airbrushing does not sound as cakey and dramatic as it sounds – it was a very light spray that blends easily and lasted even through sweating – TOTALLY WORTH IT. On) who made their hair look awesome AND also stay put for the 10+ hour day that all of us in the wedding party had.
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