p e n e l o p e: 2009

6.12.09

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15.11.09

my friend took photos of me! and bubble gum!

6.11.09

model: sam lalonde
photos, styling, makeup: rachael meckling

2.11.09

The New Yorker

Photoshop project for digital illustration (new yorker cover).. my theme was "tart fuel" and underage alcoholics.

29.10.09

27.10.09

from an old prada look book. i took photos of photos.

20.10.09

FLARE

One evening I got a call from Evan Biddell and he asked me to illustrate his costume *designs* for Pro Arte Danza which would be featured in FLARE Mag. Woo hoo!

I went to see the ballet as well!

www.proartedanza.com

17.10.09

i have this thing for courier new.

13.10.09

MADDY

Remember her? I did not aid with this shoot at all (it's for November's Issue of Flare) but she is one of my closest friends and I think she is lovely. Look out for her.

8.10.09

Trapped in a Box

model: lexi mckenna
felt wig construction, make up, photo, background illustrations: rachael meckling

Our class had an hour of studio time to shoot for our art direction for photography first assignment. I later photoshopped them but the faces and hearts were illustrated on the back drop with pastel! The idea for the felt wig came from Nylon from many years ago, but it stuck in my head and I have wanted to make felts wigs for ages since. I finally figure out how to make one (or two or three)...More photos, a little more gothic, from another shoot to come.

21.9.09

untitled

16.9.09

HAIR MINUS

7.9.09

MONSOON

Hello, hello Penelope, Penelope.

I start school on September 8th. I am going into my third year of fashion communications at Ryerson (3/4).

On September 9th I will be camera hunting.

I have spent most of my time without my ipod, without a tablet or a stable place to live for two weeks now. Tomorrow I am settling in for good in Toronto. I have a very cute apartment with an alley way entrance that I fully intend on vandalizing. Aha!

This was a small reminder that I have not forgotten about you, Penelope. I have simply been drinking too much tequila and laughing too much.

Now I will get serious. I promise.

15.7.09

At the end of today this will be apart of a ten foot billboard for Salon Hush!

30.6.09

A work in progress

I did this when I was out of my head one night. I found it today and I must have completely forgotten about it because I had no idea it existed. It was in my work notebook?

I want to do something more graphic with it and incorporate water colour (with lots of colour). Woooo

24.6.09

I AM TRYING

I just got the internet in my apartment! CYBER! Jk

If everything goes according to plan, I will be painting more in the next few weeks and buying a new camera at the end of the summer. You know what that means!? Hot photos!

Friends: I am also trying to spend some much deserved time on myself as I think I was lost for a few years there.... Not to worry, I am back. That is all!

P.S. Sorry for the lack of illustrations in this post. I feel like a bum.

30.5.09

girl you have no faith in medicine

I suppose this one is a bit Egon Sheile inspired (at least the legs). She is leaning against an imaginary wall and sitting on imaginary steps (for the record). Enjoy

25.5.09

A Nude

Most of this was done with graphic pen but the eyes and hatching were rendered by tablet!

22.5.09

A doll and dear

This is for Sarah of acuriousseamstress.blogspot who posted a wicked photo of an actual doll with two little toy dear...and then I fell in love and then I couldn't put my pencil down! (Photo below)

CUTE!

6.5.09

I am finally alone in my new apartment in Saskatoon for the summer. I feel like a spider because I have a lot of work to do, all on my own. I will be doing some illustrations this week and posting them hopefully by the end. I made this for my friend Shelby who just got into the Rhode Island School of Design and I am VERY proud of her. It's also a little reminder for the blog that I will be back! :)