Paris Wishes

At the end of February, I was shown an ad for an art contest. It was being hosted by Micheal's craft store & Canson, with the prize being a trip to Paris. The main rule was to create an Parisian inspired piece. My original plan was to create my piece digitally and even made quite a few mock-ups. But nothing seemed to stand out. Then my family made the suggestion to use as much of Micheals products as possible. It basically meant starting from scratch.

After some meditation, I got my inspiration for my piece from the simple fact that I wish to go to Paris. Now, other than the frame and the fake hair, the rest of the products used were from Micheals.

This is my art piece, Paris Wishes.

Costume redesign

About two weeks ago, I did up a quick version of Sumire Hakami from Aikatsu for Tsukino Con.

It was photographed by this group, who were running at photo booth.

Though I was happy with the photos, I thought that I could improve the costume. I restructured the skirt and attacted it to a new form-fitting top that zipped up in the back. 

I like how the redesigned dress feels and looks. Just have to add the accessories and the wig, and I'm good to go.

A little gift

Today I finally set to work making the gift for the gift exchange at my main job. It took about half an hour to design and assemble all the parts, then another couple of hours to make it by hand. But it turned out really cute!

Starting a new project

The time has to create a piece of art as a Christmas present. This year's recipient is one of my closest friends. It has been over a year or two since she started a hobby known as hard live action role play, or harping for short and has developed quite a character. For Christmas, she told me that she would like a fire inspired painting as a gift from me. So, I thought what better centre piece of the work than that of the fiery alter ego of hers. Now that the character is drawn, the real fun begins. 

Asked back

A couple of weeks ago, I recieved an email from the Saanich Fair with a special message. I've been asked back! I have entered many times before, but this was the first time that I have been asked back. Since then, I have been working out what I might show along balancing 2 jobs, 1 freelance job and a volunteer position. It hasn't been easy, but I can now see my artistic pursues paying off. Now I'll treat you to a preview of a work in progress.

Correcting a Mistake

A week ago, I met with my newest clients, the Pet Lovers Rescue in order to finalize the details of their business card. They also informed me that the cards in a week. Meaning the design to the printers (Vistaprint) that night.

In the rush, I ended up mistyping one of contact information. This wasn't realized until I received the cards from the printers. In an effort to correct this mistake, I took white return labels and with InDesign program, I spaced two set of contact info onto each label. I had thought about making the labels fade into the card, but the plain white and black ink looked just fine to the client.

Theatrical Sewing

For the past month, I've been helping out a friend with a little dilemma that she's been having. Her musical theatre class ran into a problem when they couldn't rent costumes for their production. In an effort to make sure that her class had costumes, my friend went out and bought material & patterns. But the people that agreed to do the sewing, ended up dropping out. I got word from my friend's sister that she was desperate for sewers and agreed to take on a few. I doubt that she realized that I'd be doing them all by hand at first, but she knows now and is quite impressed. Anyway here are the costumes for 'Once Upon A Mattress', the king & two princes. To let you know, the buckles on all three are old broaches that I was planning on getting rid of anyway, but they work well in this application.