wow I am so not excited to be writing in this blog any more, cause it just reminds me of how little I've been able to accomplish with my work for the last month. I've done pretty much nothing, cause schools taken up all of my time. Thank god it's going to be over soon. I just hope I pass. I've really taken the time this semester for granted and now it's catching up with me. I've got less than a week left and sooooooo much work to do.

wish me luck

sunbury shores art gallery "art of food"

So my "cheesy still life" painting got accepted for the "art of food" show at the Sunbury shores art gallery in st. Andrews N.B.. But unfortunatly I wasn't able to make it cause it was on thanksgiving weekend, i was super bumbed out about this. But I heared the opening was really great, a couple hundred showed up and the art work was increadable. I would have love to have gone to talked to people and gotten some feed back, but ce la vie !

My painting is the one on the bottom of the group of three with the thin black frame.

I got these pictures curtacy of the sunbury shores art gallery fan page on facebook......... add them on facebook to check out the other pictures from the rest of the "art of food" show, you know you wanna :)

gloves

So it's gettin' cold in Fredericton and my hands are freezing during my morning walks to school. I'm super poor but have more material than any one else on the planet, so I thought...... cold hands + no money + material = make my own gloves, ding! I found a lot of patterns on the internet for gloves and just copied one into photoshop and scaled it to fit my hands. There still a little rough looking, so i'll need a little practice, especially with the ends of the fingers (tricky). I made these gloves out of a blue double sided fur with snake skin pattern stuff on the top and just fur on the underside.

I think there super cool and i'm definitly thinking they'd be a fun thing to silkscreen my images onto, if I were to make a super plain pair out of single colored jersey or some material that's just as smooth for silkscreening. So keep your eyes on my etsy store for any fun gloves that might pop up :)

red hot

This is my new top, I made it with cotton jersey and I'm gonna have a ton of smalls and a couple mediums but no larges. The design was inspired by a photo I found in an old magazine from like 5 years ago. I thought the shadows looked cool. this top is totally handmade, all hand sewn and hand silkscreened. you can find it in my etsy store.



sorry the pictures blurry I'm gonna try to take a better one really soon. I'm also gonna have to look up some photography tips on lightly and stuff:) gotta work on those photo skills a bit more.:)

naked girl

This is my latest illustration. I made it to put on the main page of my website, but i'm also going to be making it into a silkscreen for t-shirts. Just the black out line of the girl on a red t-shirt that i made. gonna be HOT !!!!

a purple hat for a red hatter

My mom's in red hat's and it's her birthday month in Oct. So she get's to wear a purple hat and a red dress. It also happens to be a haloween party so she's gonna dress up as a lady bug red hatter. I can't wait to see this the costumes gonna be fabulous, red hatters always go over the top with their clothes, it's super fun. So I made her a little purple hat with a lady bug decoration made out of fake hair (it kinda looks like a fly fishing lure :) ). I made the hat out of cardboard and hot glued some purple velvet onto it and put some red ribbon around the crown of the hat.
I was inspired to make this, cause my mom and me went shopping earlier that day at lechateau and the store had all these amazing little glamour hats, and my mom went crazy for them.

I really like this hat it turned out to be a really fun project that is easier than it looks to construct. I might do a tutorial about how to make these. I'm going as a blue butterfly for halloween so i'll make my self a hat for that and make a tutorial to put on line.

a little painting

My Granny's Birthday is today so I made her a little painting of me and my mom. It's 4" x 4" and I made it to fit into the lid of a box of Godiva chocolate's. So when she's done with the chocolates she can hang up the lid with the painting in it and it looks like a cool shadow box. I hope she likes it, the texture got a little crazy on the faces. I'm not use to painting so small. But, It was a really fun project, taught me a bit about patience.

I put a pic of the original photo and the painting i did.