Models: Shih-Han Hsiao (New York) & Louis Liu (Agency?)Editorial: Prepster in the Sun
Magazine: Interview, May 2010
Photographer: Gregory Harris
Stylist: Karen Kaiser
Source: Fashionisto
Friday, August 6, 2010
Shih-Han Hsiao & Louis Liu Editorial for Interview Magazine, May 2010
Models: Shih-Han Hsiao (New York) & Louis Liu (Agency?)Editorial: Prepster in the Sun
Magazine: Interview, May 2010
Photographer: Gregory Harris
Stylist: Karen Kaiser
Source: Fashionisto
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Return of the Fringe
Last year I began creating stitching samples for a client, and without meaning for it to happen, they turned into their own on-going series I've always called "Fringe".
Some of these little pieces became my "favorite one ever!" for a while, and I've allowed the series to carry me along to wherever it has wanted to go.
It's motored right into this year, and resulted in another piece created for a quilting challenge over at 3 Creative Studios.
This week, I finished a couple more of these fun little critters. One got a permanent home on this stretched artists' canvas.
The canvas, one I've been tinkering with for several years, is 12" x 12" and contains countless layers of paint, cheesecloth, paper and even a few stitched remnants of other quilts (click the photo for a hi-res view). The canvas is embellished with paper buttons and paper beads.
The quilt started life as white cotton. It was layered with batting and a muslin backing and then tight pleats were sewn across the front of the sandwich with more lengths of cotton. The pleats are snipped open and the whole thing was then hand-dyed, over-dyed, and finally laundered many times to develop the shaggy fringe that is the cornerstone design element of this series. The quilt, which itself only measures about 6" x 7", was stitched to the canvas with transparent thread.
A second Fringe piece out of the dye baths this week is this little thing.
It was constructed in the same manner as the others but has only been through its first dye bath. I love the way the fringe has tangled all of the colors together and now lays across the piece, but the palette is not as sophisticated as I'd like it to be, so it will likely undergo another dyeing or painting session. Then I will listen as it tells me whether it wants to be beaded and mounted, like the others, or if it has other ideas for its future.
In other areas of the studio this week, I dyed, and then overdyed and then overdyed again this simple cotton sarong for a vacation we're taking to the Bahamas next month.
I was going for tropical colors and mostly achieved that, but it's just a little wrap to tie around my waist as I go from my room to the pool and back, so I'm not going to fuss with it any more.
This week also saw me practicing again with my new Thermofax screens on old painted papers.
It's so much fun that I find it difficult to put the painting supplies away when it's time to move on to something else!
Finally, this cotton art cloth piece is now hanging on the design wall while I decide what more it needs.
It measures 45" x 45" and started as off-white cotton Primatex. It was treated with some breakdown printing and then screen printing.
I have four screens charged with dyes waiting for a DSP session next week. Until then, hope your weekend is as chilled as mine will be!
Happy creating!
Some of these little pieces became my "favorite one ever!" for a while, and I've allowed the series to carry me along to wherever it has wanted to go.
It's motored right into this year, and resulted in another piece created for a quilting challenge over at 3 Creative Studios.
This week, I finished a couple more of these fun little critters. One got a permanent home on this stretched artists' canvas.
The canvas, one I've been tinkering with for several years, is 12" x 12" and contains countless layers of paint, cheesecloth, paper and even a few stitched remnants of other quilts (click the photo for a hi-res view). The canvas is embellished with paper buttons and paper beads.
The quilt started life as white cotton. It was layered with batting and a muslin backing and then tight pleats were sewn across the front of the sandwich with more lengths of cotton. The pleats are snipped open and the whole thing was then hand-dyed, over-dyed, and finally laundered many times to develop the shaggy fringe that is the cornerstone design element of this series. The quilt, which itself only measures about 6" x 7", was stitched to the canvas with transparent thread.
A second Fringe piece out of the dye baths this week is this little thing.
It was constructed in the same manner as the others but has only been through its first dye bath. I love the way the fringe has tangled all of the colors together and now lays across the piece, but the palette is not as sophisticated as I'd like it to be, so it will likely undergo another dyeing or painting session. Then I will listen as it tells me whether it wants to be beaded and mounted, like the others, or if it has other ideas for its future.
In other areas of the studio this week, I dyed, and then overdyed and then overdyed again this simple cotton sarong for a vacation we're taking to the Bahamas next month.
I was going for tropical colors and mostly achieved that, but it's just a little wrap to tie around my waist as I go from my room to the pool and back, so I'm not going to fuss with it any more.
This week also saw me practicing again with my new Thermofax screens on old painted papers.
It's so much fun that I find it difficult to put the painting supplies away when it's time to move on to something else!
Finally, this cotton art cloth piece is now hanging on the design wall while I decide what more it needs.
It measures 45" x 45" and started as off-white cotton Primatex. It was treated with some breakdown printing and then screen printing.
I have four screens charged with dyes waiting for a DSP session next week. Until then, hope your weekend is as chilled as mine will be!
Happy creating!
Shu Pei in Magazine Cover for Vogue China (Supplement), August 2010
Model: Shu Pei (Next)Magazine Cover: Vogue China (Supplement), August 2010
Photographer: Unknown
Source: IAmLordZen @ tfs
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Angie Ng Editorial
Model: Angie Ng (Bookings London)Editorial: Come Get Lost With Me
Magazine: Unknown
Photographer: Raymond Kam
Stylist: Shek Inggrad
Makeup Artist: Shek Inggrad
Hair Stylist: Frankie Tang
Source: angiencl.blogspot.com
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Allen Tsai in Editorial for H&M Magazine, May 2010
Models: Allen Tsai (Next) & OthersEditorial: Street Life
Magazine: H&M Magazine, May 2010
Photographer: Dan Martensen
Stylist: Robert Rydberg
Hair: Maranda
Makeup: Osvaldo Salvatierra
Source: models.com
Monday, August 2, 2010
Han Jin in Editorial for Vogue Korea, August 2010
Model: Han Jin (Marilyn)Editorial: La Mer
Magazine: Vogue Korea, August 2010
Photographer: Hong Jang Hyun
Hair: Chae Soo Hoon
Make-up: Lee Ji Young
Source: Rosalinde @ tfs
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Within the Lines
What if there was nothing to discover? No story, no thousand words, no answer to a non-riddle? What if it was really, really, just a game of forms and colors?
Would it be a sin?
Does this lady need a past?
Is it really so bad for something to be "just" a pretty picture?
We know of the danger of beauty, we know the seductive spectacle means flirting with submission, yet is it really so immoral?
We possibly wouldn't say it about Rafał Wilk's works. They are often witty, playful, insightful. They play with the idea of light, of bi-dimensionality, of what a work is.But, to continue on my doubt - does having a story constitute a challenge? Or is it just because we like the indolence of layered thinking, the safety net of there being "something else", so as to let our imagination ride a little further...? But haven't we turned it into a rule for (a lot of) contemporary art? This story-telling capacity? (Can someone say a good story about this? If so, the author of the story and the author of the work get a bonus.)
What if it's a pretty picture? What if it's pretty, pretty, pretty, a thousand times pretty? What if it's so damned pretty you don't want it to be a story, to go beyond it being pretty?
Of course, I have the right to omit the depth. And then also, every good story is many stories deep. But some of the best works I know present a fascinating resistance to storytelling. They are like a stone, at once attractive and opaque. They make me want to read within the lines.
And here, somewhat related, is a summer holiday bonus:
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