My Twin

Hello everyone! I’m posting something new and it’s only been a couple of days. Whoa! I think this must be a new record! Haha yay. The following are old pictures that I took way back from this past summer.



^ Haha this one reminds me of those Troll Dolls from the ninties with the crazy hair that stands up. hahaha




I don’t know if you remember when I talked a couple of post ago about my twin Rachael who’s a super talented artist? We’re not related or anything, but we have so much in common it’s freaky! She has red hair, I have red hair, she likes art, I like art, she wears thick framed glasses, I wear thick framed glasses, she has a pair of floral doc-martens that she painted herself, I have a pair of floral doc-martens that I painted myself. The list goes on and on!

We met this past summer at an art camp held by the Fort Wayne Museum of Art. We hit it off right away! About a week after the camp she came over to my house and we did a photo shoot together. It was a lot of fun! Here are some of the pictures from it.

Also, like I said before she’s a super talented artist! I need to brag on her a bit :) She won 3 Gold Keys and a Silver Key in Scholastics this year along with receiving a Gold Key Portfolio!! How awesome is that?!!! :D Here are some of her amazing paintings!

A self-portrait story

Self-portrait drawing. It recieved a regional silver key in the Scholastics :)

During the past few weeks I’ve been working on my artist statements for the Scholastics Art and Writing competition. After writing them and seeing the crazy amount of self-portraits I’ve taken over the past two years, I’ve realized something: my self-portraits have really become a personal diary/journal for myself. At first it was just a way to document the clothes that I made. Then I needed models for my clothes, but by the time I called up a friend to model for me, the weather that I wanted would change into something else. So I was stuck with doing self-portraits most of the time.

For a while I didn’t want to show my self-portraits, because I didn’t want anyone to think that I was in love with myself or anything (blgh, gag me). I felt like they were more of an embarrassing thing. It’s really not until this year that I’ve finally become comfortable with showing them.

The first self-portrait that I ever took...oh dear.

A more recent self-portrait

I was looking back on some of my first self-portraits the other day, and it was pretty funny to see the difference! I’ve changed so much within the past couple of years that I wonder what I’ll be like in a year, or even five years from now. Woah, I don't know if I want to think that far in advance!

I’ve been thinking a lot about colleges and what I should be, and I have so many people giving me advice about what I should go into that it’s all kind of turned into a jumbled mess. But I’ve decided that in five years from now, whatever it is that I’m doing I just hope that I’m truly happy and in love with whatever I chose to go into. Maybe it will be fashion, maybe it will be film, or maybe I’ll combine the two and do something with costume design! Who knows! All I know is that whatever I decide on it’s going to be something that I love and something that I’m crazy about.

Masking Tape Dress

I made this dress for the Scholastic Art and Writing competition. It’s made completely out of masking tape and let me just tell you that it was a bit of a sticky situation (haha pardon the pun, but I just couldn’t help myself). I was inspired by architecture and an empty butterfly chrysalis.

I first constructed the underneath by using a stiff interfacing. Next I had to add a couple of layers of masking tape on top of that in order to get the length where I wanted it. Then I started adding, one by one, layers of masking tape starting from the bottom. I used over 18 rolls of masking tape and over 80 hours went into making the dress. The dress is completely wearable. It has a zipper sewn in the back for getting in and out of.

I might have nightmares about wads of tape attacking me in my sleep, but I’m pretty happy with the way it turned out. Haha. I just dropped it off for judging and I find out Sunday if it got in. Oh I’m so nervous! Wish me luck and I hope you like it :)



***Update Sunday*** I got the results back and the dress won a Gold Key!! :D Thank you everyone for all the kind and encouraging words!