note: future project.

i only have two weeks left of work. after that, i still have a whole month left before i'm back to school. therefore, i am going to force myself to do some art.

today, while cleaning the third floor of the gallery where i work, i found a bag that contained some fabric. i wanted some fabric to cover my sketchbook with, so i looked through it and noticed some that was white, with very faint traces of where there used to be small purple flowers. i thought it was a bedsheet, but it turned out to be a dress. with several holes in it.

i want to collect a bunch of old clothes in an extreme state of disrepair: dresses where the fabric is thinned and falling apart, jeans with holes everywhere, moth-eaten sweaters. and repair them. patch the holes, maybe embroider the faded prints.

finding the old clothes is the hard part.

fashion, day two.

i'm liking the big-ass sketchbook, but it's bigger than my scanner. this almost didn't fit.

acrylic, watercolour, and ink over a magazine cutout. i like doing this.

summer photos.

several of them. some of them got cropped on the edges, click for full view.

i have no idea why this is underlined, but it won't go away.

oils.

i made an oil painting. you may know that i'm not much of a painter, generally. i think i prefer oils to acrylics, because the colours look nicer and they don't dry before even touching the painting surface like acrylics do. my favourite part is the actual visible brushstrokes that i've tried so hard to get with acrylics, and failed miserably. though that part didn't scan well.

self-portrait, obviously. i liked it better before i added the glasses. i might be risky and try to take them off.

i return!

i kind of forgot about having a blog again.

i've decided, this year, to start applying to the national theatre school's costume and set design program (or rather, my mother has decided for me). i'm starting now because they accept a grand total of eight people each year, so maybe they'll eventually notice me if i start early. applications aren't until next february, but i'm starting to work on my fashion sketching skills.

















(they're small because there's so many, click to go to flickr to see what's going on!)

i went out and bought a fountain pen and tubes of watercolours and a huge-ass black spiral-bound sketchbook, which i'm going to paste these into. it makes me feel like a real fashion designer. it seems like they would carry huge-ass black spiral-bound sketchbooks. maybe.