Série Illustration: Trop Rouge

The third blogger for my Illustration Series was Christina. She is cool, rad and her hair is wild. You can see my feature on her blog at Trop Rouge. I love how the sketches turned out. I am super busy right now, my boyfriend is still here taking me out to lots of good places to eat and drink wine. When we are at home we share our time catching up with friends, hanging, myself working on some designs and finding time to sleep. It's only Wednesday but it feels like I have done a full 7 days already.

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Elle n'est pas là par Quan Mai

Creativity is a force that takes you over, if you don't have it, you can't fake it! I had the privilege of working with such a force, his name is Quan Mai, aka Genetic boi. He is a do it all artist. Not only is he the Creative Director, he was the photographer, stylist and make up artist. Did I mention he edited and retouched all his photos?  I am glad to call him my friend and an inspiration to get my art and designs out there. He flew from New York here to do one last shoot with his muse and friend Vanessa Hong before she moves to China. It was a great week hanging out, lots of laughter, food and insights. I had the pleasure of being involved in 2 shoots with the both of them. Vanessa is such a natural model, the camera loves her. I was the Creative Assitant and one of my designs was used(she is wearing it in the first 2 photos). Watch out everyone this shoot is fierce, creative and intelligent with a touch of sadness:

Model: Vanessa Hong 

Photography - Retouch & Editing - Text -

Hair & Makeup - Styling - Art Direction: Quan Mai

Creative Assistant: Melissa Araujo

Behind the scenes:

Quan in the zone working his magic and I was doing the last touch ups.

If you want to see the second amazing shoot check out Quan's blog

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Journée Ensoleillée

The weather continues to improve and with that so does my mood. It is nice to wake up to sunny mornings and no rain. My bike is all tuned up and off I'll go. My boyfriend is home to visit for 5 days, it's really exciting to see him again and hang out like "normal" couples do.

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PRINTEMPS

WEARING: American Apparel and a JNBY hat in all of the photos.

Today is the first day of Spring...my allergies are off the hook, but the sun is out and I am happy. I love sunshine like you woud not believe, that's what being from Brasil does to you. I am immune to the heat, I love being hot and under the sun. These pictures make me miss the Summer...but one step at a time, today is  only the beginning of Spring, Summer will be right around the corner. All pictures were taken in Victoria at the end of last August.

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D'or

I kinda forced my boyfriend Jeff to take these photos of me. I wanted to play with Adobe Illustrator, as it had been a while since I had done any creative work on the computer. It took me a while but here is the result:
Stay Gold series.

                 I am wearing American Apparel in all of the photos.

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Ma première collection

A promise is a promise, here is the photoshoot for my RAW Collection. I am a one girl show (of course if a friend wants to lend a hand or two I am always grateful) I designed and made all the pieces myself.  I styled, did hair and make up for the shoot, all the photography and editing was done by Slava and Igor (http://www.creativitality.com/), who are an incredible power couple. Yes, we also modelled (talk about hands on!) This collection was inspired by dreams, friendship and feminine mystique. It was a lot of work but also amazing. I hope you can see all the elements of my inspirations through the photos. Here is a few behind the scenes first and then the final product.

All clothing by Melissa Araujo

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L'expression est la liberté

Expression is freedom. This is why I have decided it wasn't too late to create a blog and be part of an outlet that let's me share Art, ideas, thoughts, design and a little of my life here. This is my first time so bare with me as I learn the tricks, the do's and don'ts , and if you stick around long enough I will show you how a girl can hustle when she believes in something.
This is the Art work for my first recently made collection ( I will post the photoshoot for the collection on my next post!) I did the Illustrations using acrylic and fine pen, the post editing expertise was done by a fellow blogger and friend http://www.creativitality.com/ .

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