Comic Con 2013

I'm a sucker for NYCC, so it's no surprise that I went again this year. This time around however, I decided to step it up a notch and make my entire costume from a pattern! I also went with my lovely partner in crime, Sarah. 

Clearly, my cosplay was pretty simple (I made a bow and a dress) but it was a really good learning curve for me since it have virtually no experience in dress sewing whatsoever. So I took the dive, bought some fabric, a pattern and went to work.

 

I'm cosplaying as Kiki, from Kiki's Delivery Service by Miyazaki.

I think I did a pretty good job, and I'm really happy with how it turned out. You know that you have a good cosplay when it takes you half an hour to move from one side of the show floor to the other side. 

Skull Girl

Okay! Where do I begin?

My initial idea with this started with me wanted to move on to working with different types of canvases. I chose wood as my medium of choice.

I had a road bump in the middle of working with this once my sketch was finalized; I didn't know what to do with it next. I let it sit for a couple of weeks and fortunately, ideas flowed right back into my thought process. 

I'm sort of in a "teal period" right now. Kind of like Picasso's blue period, cept I'm not Picasso and I'm not living in Europe. 

Underlying this piece has a lot of symbolic meaning because it's based off the lyrics of a song called "Lovelier Girl" by Beach House. 

I'm really happy with how this piece is progressing. I wonder what I'll end up doing next.

The Whitney Museum

Last Friday, I went to the Whitney Museum instead of attending Homecoming. I'm pretty glad I skipped out - while I did miss some fun with friends, I gained a plethora if influence instead. 

I originally went for the Edward Hopper exhibition that was going on, but found myself engorged with much more than I had gambled for. I fell in love with Robert Indiana's work as well. What I find really endearing about his work is the sheer size of his paintings. If it was on a smaller scale, I think I would just pass it off as something pretty but since all of the pieces in his exhibition were huge, I was really captivated. I am also just a Pop Art enthusiast and a sucker for clean, straight, bold designs. 

Anyway, back to Hopper. I liked his paintings, but I enjoyed his watercolors and charcoal sketches far more. He really was more of a designer than he was a painter. His defined, confident strides on the paper really show through in many of his works- I mistakes a lot of the steer colors for being lithographs or prints! 

Overall, this was a very succesful library hual for my brain.