Inspiration Nature

I found laying around on a dusty digital file, some old nature photographs I had taken light years ago. Decidedly these merited some attention, so I dusted off the cobwebs and brought these ole things back to life with new reflection on color, texture, and the natural enter-weaving that can easily transcend into design inspiration. 

Photographs shot with a pretty banged up Canon.

 

I really love this tree growing round and through the rock.

Great color scheme here, a great color story.

Clearly, or not so clearly I forever wish for a better camera.

Wonderful weaving elements, and color.

I love the mood of this photo, as well as the deep colors.

I think this one would be great for a color story with a accent color of red!

very graphic "like" and makes me think of textile prints.

This is a rather rare flower called a Lady Slipper. 

Here is a Lady slipper in bloom from, http://flowerinfo.org/lady-slipper-flower

                          The rare Lady slipper flower is actually protected by law from being picked, and through this law has survived through all these decades. This flower is tied to many folklore stories and is state blossom of Minnesota. The colors vary from violet, pink, yellow, and other shades and tint of these colors.  The veins in the flower are just beautiful and inspiring! So this concludes my discovery of some old photos, and a great exploration of going through old photograph files!

Artist Book Exhibit

   I created an artist book back in May titled The Girl With The Black Spot, it was created with the theme of overcoming limitations and facing Fear. The materials I used were,felted wool,archival stock paper,wet-pressed watercolor paper, and muslin for the binding, ink, watercolor, and coloring pencil, along with graphite were also used. The piece went on exhibit at the One 12 Gallery, which is a local Atlanta gallery space for emerging artist and designers. 

The Title Page

The Pages Have a very rough and layered look

Pages 1 & 2

some of illustrations would carry over onto both pages

A Close up of one of the illustrations

 

In The Wood

I have here a collection of photographs I have taken,and hope everyone enjoys them, it was really fun.

Here I have My lovely Sister Bouncy, love you sis and as always you make my camera happy. The mood for these were an all American provacator, I used the photographs for a project I am currently doing for Abercrombie and Fitch, they were very impressed with the images, which naturally made me so excited.

These Images I took while in North Georgia, also for the Abercrombie and Fitch project, again capturing their feel and mood with focus on the outdoors aspect of their branding and keeping in mind the vintage and prep feel of their brand.

I will have more on this project coming up in the future until then I will keep you updated on other whimsies of mine!

Collecting Inspiration From Things Collecting Dust

This was from a photo shoot I did awhile back in August, with my friends Ash and Jana. I was trying to get inspiration for my upcoming collection for my senior year, and I always find taking pictures inspiring. The theme or mood I suppose was the idea of this really old apartment unit that I live in, it was literally built in like the 1920's according to the land lord. Anyway I wanted to capture the customer that my collection is catering to, though that has changed a bit since then, I wanted to show her love for the arts, music,and love for things that are vintage.   







My collection now still uses old styled building and their decaying charm, only with my attention honed in on specific details, like chipped and layered paint. I found these interesting layers upon layers of paint and discarded floral wall papers to be incredible and so I started making my own fabrication to replicate in a sense this story that I found so alluring. I am now on winter break from school but I am still working on my collection. Right now I am just focusing on my fabric manipulation and painting, and buying fabrics for the upcoming winter of sewing away like a mad lady.

I am lucky to be working with a well know designer Rachel Roy throughout my senior year and so far she has loved my ideas and given me good feed back. These are some designs from the Rachel Roy website, some of my favorite looks.

                                          The Swirl Dress from RachelRoy.com 129.00

         Striped Texting Gloves from RachelRoy.com 29.00

                                       The Cabaret Dress from RachelRoy.com 109.00

It is truly wonderful and helpful to get feed back not only from my knowing professors but also from a very successful woman in the fashion industry. The opportunity is priceless, and so rewarding, which gets me through when it's been three days since I last slept and the armhole on my cashmere sweater refuses to sew in properly, yeah that is a glimpse into the senior madness at SCAD.