Super productive today....I should wake up at 8am everyday! Now if only I could avoid that pesky "falling asleep in class 'cause it's so early" thing.
I have an unfortunate tendency to put off things to do until the night before but when I am under pressure I actually wind up doing better than if I set aside more time. Case in point, I'm revamping the white dress I previously posted (see Dori in the garden picture). I took off the plastic shapes & the petticoat so that I had the original empire-waist sheath foundation, and then I re-draped it, added black accents (ribbon & pieces of a woven placemat- trust me, you'd never know. Picture tomorrow.), and seriously distressed the hem. The reason for revamp? A stylist contacted me a day or so ago to ask if I had anything available for a shoot with Joshua Black, and since I am completely unable to refuse offers with awesome photogs I had to say yes. The shoot is on Sunday but I need to send it out tomorrow morning!
On a side note, another one of my favorite tools to use is a high temperature, fine tip cauterizer.
(For clarification, cauterizers are used during surgery to simultaneously cut & burn the skin- the burn prevents blood loss.)
I don't think you're allowed to buy them for individual use, but my roommate's dad is a plastic surgeon and since health standards require that the cauterizer gets thrown out after every use, he gives her the old ones and she shares the love. It's a win-win situation!
They're great for:
- cutting nylon ribbon so that it doesn't fray
- cutting small details into fabric of all kinds
They're not so great to use on:
- latex (the smell is GOD AWFUL, and I'm sure it's super bad for your health)
-plastic (same as above, although the smell is not quite as noxious)
I think I could negate both of these problems by getting a respirator. I should probably do that anyways since I'm using powdered pigments as well for things. God damn everything at art school is toxic!!!
1 comments:
it all sounds so exciting.
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