flowers in a vase / flowers on your grave
NEVER ASK A FLOWER TO UNFURL ITS PETALS.

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Caitlin Shearer for La Lune

Some sneaky little snapshots of some work i did for fashion label La Lune... (textiles to come soon!)

Mermaid Girls

Three wonderful women wearing the illustratedMermaid dress.

Here we have: Hannah of Leopard and Lipstick, Grace of Milkclouds, and Shona, my babely buddy.
Order your own  over in the etsy shop.

Audrey Grace + one of my dresses...

The 'Marie Antoinette' illustrated dress, photographed by Masha Mel for the Audrey Grace boutique.

Autumn vacation means getting back into making things for fun.

A notice from yours truly...

Perhaps you know, perhaps you don't - this year i've begun a diploma of fashion design. The hours are long, the work is intense - so i'm going to have to say a partial goodbye to this blog, to the world of illustration and to the vast and incomprehensible space of the internet for a while. Time is scarce and my priorities have changed. The attraction i had to painting has also shifted and now i feel it's time to recalibrate and learn to reignite the feeling of how much i loved it in the beginning. (When i didn't have to show it to anyone and it had nothing to do with commerce.)
Now is the time to focus on something different - I'm now learning a new set of skills from the ground up and am excited to embark upon this adventure of the mind and hands.

I shall still be here behind the scenes, so if anyone would like to contact me, then please do.
The etsy shop will still be open, and the illustrated dresses will still be for sale - perhaps i'll pop by with a new picture every now and then, but i think i'm going to be content just focusing on life for now.

It's been a pleasure - a delight - and now for something new. Wish me Luck.

mermaids

watercolour mermaids which where then utilised as a textile design for this dress.

something a bit different...

My friend Lauren Anseline created a magazine for her final year of fashion school at UTS and i contributed a bunch of Guy Bourdin inspired pieces.

makin' babies ..... out of fimo! (soon to be brooches.)

Girl Gang Handkerchief set

I designed a very girly handkerchief for Canadian textiles label Stay Home Club.
Buy the set here.
Photos by Olivia Mew.

Baby Clothing

Handmade baby clothes in original textile designs are now in the shop.

(Now all i've got to do is acquire myself a daughter so we can wear matching ensembles!)

Boys in Paint

 

Trying out some new things - applying paint in a rough, more opaque manner - on A3 sized board.
(so not small 8 x 12 rectangles, as usual).
I'm going through a stage where i don't draw for fun anymore - maybe because i'm preoccupied with sewing - but i'd like to fall in love with creating people on paper again.

If only these painted boys would come to life.

Lazing around over christmas led to extensive ebay searches and growing obsessions with Shirley Temple paraphernalia and 1930's composition dolls  - (30 inch babies by effanbee and arranbee - and debuteens with little roller skates and swiss dot pinafores).
I spent alot of my time chanting 'baby doll, baby doll....' and squealing over listings of dollies with rosy knees, whose faces retained their perfect paint job and were not ruined by 'crazing'. (small spidery cracks in the paint.) Of course, this behaviour garnered many rolled eyes and shaken heads from my family. How old am i? Yeah, i'm not sure either.

I also decided that the very best job to have would to be an official doll doctor. Someone who sews on dangling limbs, replaces roaming glass eyes, re-roots mohair wigs and polishes the complexions of dusty dolls back to good health. This was actually a well regarded profession in the past, and i wish with all my heart that it still was a viable thing to do. I don't think there are any doll hospitals left in Sydney...

Last week, a little dream came true - i can't afford to spend $200 on a very old babydoll, so instead $2 well spent got me an envelope full of Shirley Temple clippings that span the years. I'm going to pin them up on the wall because honestly, she just makes me happy. I just sent my childhood tap shoes to the charity bins though, so i guess that stage of my life is over. I think i'm stuck in an adult childhood.
Living in a dreamland. It's better when i'm encased in these things.

Baby Clothing

Today i travelled to the 1930's and got Shirley Temple to model the new fabric and clothing designs!

print sale

2013 is going to be big year! I've got good news - I'm going back to school to study fashion design (full-time, eek!), which is something i'm super duper excited about. I'm conducting a big print sale to gather some extra funds to pay for course fees and tools.

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(discounts apply to whole orders so please be careful to only purchase prints.)

Thanks to those of you who support my work.

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Sarah

Sarah Beaver of jewellery label wenvrsleep wearing a custom silk blouse in the Grumpy Girls print.

(We did a little trade and i made her this garment in return for a splendid pair of earrings.)