INLIGHT: Wearable Art Fashion Show and Competition: "Enlightened"

The Annual Wearable Art Fashion Show Competition in Richmond at First Fridays on West Broad Street.

The entire street was blocked off for this event.

The lovely Kaitlin DeMayo wore my outfit of a hot and sexy librarian / accidentally Cindy McCain, composed of a blouse and a pencil skirt with 27 light bulbs on the fabric, two on her high heels, and one huge bulb on top of her hair with a beehive wig. IT ROCKED!!

The fashion show has a theme every year, and the theme this year was "Illumination" and the number 30.

The blouse was the hardest part to make, I now sincerely see and respect anyone who can whip up anything on a sewing machine...and make it fit right, and I surely didn't make it fit too well.

My piece was titled "Enlightened"...because she's reading a book and becoming enlightened!! Well...I thought it was clever.

All in all, it was made out of...
~fabric, lace, buttons, fishnets, high heels
~battery powered Xmas lights and plastic ornaments
~a blond wig with a plastic container, glue, bobby pins, and a #2 yellow pencil
~a pearl necklace and cat-shaped eyeglasses
~a sketchbook with the batteries hidden inside

The competition was for a scholarship...24 other people participated. I didn't win, but I plan on winning next year."I'm Cindy McCain, and I disapprove of your liberal, half-naked fashion ways!!"

My piece was titled "Enlightened"...because she's a librarian reading a book and becoming enlightened by the bright idea in it...I thought it was clever, but I guess not.

This show was the most fun I've had in a long time.

Plein Air

I did a lot of plein air painting this summer, but only one survived being scraped away.

Wearable Art Competitive Show

So I was accepted to do an outfit for the Wearable Art Show that's going to happen next First Friday. Here's my idea, it's blurry because I used my computer camera, my poor scanner is broken.So, the theme this year is 'Illumination' and the number 30. So, I'm doing an outfit that kind of looks like a librarian with 30 lighted light bulbs on her. The idea is that she's going to walk down the runway reading a book, at the end of the runway she will be 'enlightened' and all the lights will fade on.

OH YEAH!! NAKED PEOPLE!!

Just a face, because I missed the class before.This was done about a year ago, I think it was a ten minute pose.
This was also done a year ago.

First Sketch Book Month Post

So I'm far behind in my sketchbook, and in order to catch up, I have to do 20 pages a day. I hope I can catch up, I really wanna finish it.

This semester is kind of weird...

So, this semester I'm in quite a funk, and it seems like everyone is too. I blame everything on the weather, so there.

Old Sketchbook Stuff

I didn't do too much over break, so I'm posting some old sketchbook stuff, and I have some paintings I'm going to post later.