Tween Lifestyle Inspiration: Love Yourself

love yourself by the-freckles-on-your-cheeks featuring heart glasses

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A.P.C. a p c sandals
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Monki black rucksack
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Urban Outfitters heart glasses
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Blue wall art
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This board is cute and funny and has a youthful feeling with quirky little hearts of pale pink, friendly saying, and an air of innocence. It is relaxed, positive, and cheerful- a great inspiration board for tween product. 

Thanks to the-freckles-on-your-cheeks!

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Miss Inquisitive: Part 2

Miss Inquisitive: Part 2 CC Selena Marie Norris

This is what I've been working on since last night. I finished the line work today in between some evening talent management/image consultancy. I decided to make my "Miss Inquisitive" sketches into a series. I like playing with proportions, though it's surprising how much you have to alter in terms of shapes once you agree to modify proportions.

Miss Inquisitive: Part 2, Detail, CC Selena Marie Norris

 In this case the eyes, the head, and the left hand are bigger than natural. I also didn't make it a perspective type drawing. I just wanted to play around with proportions and textures (that's a sparkly sequin collar on a chambray shirt with a sweater and salmon suede pants with side cut outs). I am super happy with how it turned out.

Ever since I decided to approach my fashion sketching like fine art, my work has seemed like night and day.

 I'd like to give you a long blog about all the techniques I used, but it is late and the morning will come quickly! So, rain check?

Miss Inquisitive: Part 2, Process Photo of Sketch, CC Selena Marie Norris

I'll be posting the winner reveal and some new images from the artists in my September Artist Showdown. Let me tell you, these new images are worth coming back for! The contest was a huge success and I definitely plan to have one for October.

Miss Inquisitive: Part 2, Process Photo of Sketch, CC Selena Marie Norris

Hopefully I will finally get to publish the exclusive fashion photo shoot by some amazing Brazilian artists which I've already promised. Cross your fingers! Coming soon!

Check out Miss Inquisitive: Part 1

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Are you an artist ready to share your work? Contact me or share your information below if you are an artist or know an artist that should be featured.  If you are interested in participating please send me a message at one of the below links. Make sure to mention you want to be considered for a feature in Kindred Closets!

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Miss Inquisitive: A Fashion Croquis

I sketch a lot at work but it is flat sketching for tech packs in Adobe Illustrator. It's been a while since I've really sat down and just sketched for hours. But last night and today I was feeling in the mood for it, perhaps because of the spike in page views for my Artist Showdown Contest between Anthony Resto and Greta Corens. Please make sure to visit their respective posts (and check out the links to their portfolios). All views to their posts and each comment counts as a vote. Voting ends Sunday night at Midnight Central Standard Time. So make sure to check them out before then!

Miss Inquisitive, CC Selena Marie Norris

As for my sketching, it was raining all day today so I didn't feel much like going out. I opened the windows and listened to the rain pour down while I watched back to back episodes of Fringe on Netflix. I could smell the scent of the rain while sketching and I just got lost in what I was doing. It was lovely. This sketch is the result of a couple of hours (give or take the time it takes to make a phone call, pepare dinner, and work on a press release for a friend). 

I was initially wary of adding the background, but I quite like it now. It is a good representation of the color story I wanted for the design. So much of fashion sketching feels utilitarian in nature- just the purpose of getting the design ideas out of my head and onto paper. In this case, I decided I wanted to approach my croquis drawing more as fine art illustration (perhaps slightly influenced by the artists I've been in contact with lately), playing with the proportions and emphasizing color. This sketch was made with Prismacolor markers, Prismacolor, Crayola, and Rose Art colored pencils, and a black ink pen on Strathmore 50 lb (74 g/m squared) paper. I love bobble heads, so this was sort of inspired by that. I've included some process photos below. I am pretty happy with how it turned out! Let me know what you think!

 Miss Inquisitive, Detail, CC Selena Marie Norris

Process Photo of Sketch, CC Selena Marie Norris

Miss Inquisitive, Process Photo of Sketch, CC Selena Marie Norris

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Check Out Miss Inquisitive: Part 2

Are you an artist ready to share your work? Contact me or share your information below if you are an artist or know an artist that should be featured. Make sure you let me know you would like to be featured!

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Artist Spotlight: Greta Corens

Our newest artist spotlight is an accomplished fashion designer turned fine art water colorist, Greta Corens. 

"Roses In A Bunch" By Greta Corens

"Iris Joan Sutherland" By Greta Corens

Corens is as equally passionate and artistic in her way of life as she is in her way of speaking. She titles her pieces in the same emotive words of which her paintings represent- a colorful, glowing vocabulary of excitement balanced by a kind of soft romance with a decidedly European influence. Her work currently focuses on still lives, graphite portraits, and sepia tone nude figure paintings, but her most exquisite work by far is that of her watercolor floral depictions.

"Botanicals: Iris Rhapsody" By Greta Corens

 "Iris La Forza Del Destino" By Greta Corens

 "Iris Donatello" By Greta Corens

"Rosa di Jaques Brel" By Greta Corens

Corens' work has an ethereal quality. Her skills in floral painting can range from the depth of the velvety opacity of a rose petal to the evocative nature of beautiful x-rays with the translucence of sunlight shining through the petals of an iris, illuminating veins and features often difficult to portray in her chosen medium of water color. 

"Minuetto di Rose"  By Greta Corens

"Bouquet Romantique" By Greta Corens

Ms. Corens will be an associate member of the American Watercolor Society for 2014. She received second prize at a juried show in the Bendheim Gallery in Greenwich, CT with her piece, "Bouquet Romantique" and is currently available for gallery showcases.

You can view her website or contact her here and read her artist statement below:

GRETA CORENS New York

"Red Rose Of Longing"  By Greta Corens

"She was a sought after fashion designer in New York 

and she has taught the principles of design in various

Westchester, NY institutes. Her still life paintings in 

watercolors and oils are influenced by baroque Dutch 

Golden Age Flower paintings. She studied Architecture and 

Design at St. Lucas Institute of Architecture in Brussels

and Art at the Antwerp Royal Art Academy in Belgium. As 

President of the prestigious Reilly League of Artists, NY 

she has held master classes."

Greta Corens is also a continuing contributor to the Mudpie Fashion, Trends, and Culture Linkedin Group of which I am a moderator. Please join us in discussion here, or there. 

Contact me if you are an artist or know an artist that should be featured.

**UPDATE: Please check out the September 2013 Artist Showdown: Resto Vs. Corens here for rules and how to vote.**

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Ombre Necklaces

Ombre Necklaces by selenamarie318 featuring blue jewelry

Neon jewelry
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Neon jewelry
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Blue jewelry
boticca.com

Baublebar jewelry
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I am continuing on with the trend of ombre. I found these chunky chain and crochet necklaces and fell in love! I am thinking about making something similar. What do you think? 

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Live Freely

I ate a doughnut this week. I'll admit it. And I enjoyed it. I say this as a joke, only because it seems as though us ladies tend to beat ourselves up when we do something we enjoy- no matter what it is, we get upset with ourselves for doing it. But I think that is just silly. If you want to have a doughnut, have a doughnut. But stick with it. What I mean is, if you decide you want something sweet and you give in to having it, don't beat yourself up for it, because that negates all the enjoyment of having it in the first place. This is true for any guilty pleasure. Make a decision. Enjoy your life regardless. Live freely. 

Happy Sunday!

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Is Bright The New Brown?

Is Bright The New Brown? by selenamarie318 on Polyvore

Benetton S/S 13 Campaign / Bright Ideas / Gloss Magazine Editorial Pink Is My New Obsession, April/May 2013 Shot... / Multi-colored Pastel Hair from Nylon Mexico Hair Colors Ideas / Taylor is a Candy Beauty for Jeff Tse Shoot / Nadine Naue by Zoltan Tombor in "Friday May Eleventh" for Fashion Gone...

 Is it now more subversive of me that I don't dye my hair?

Lately I have noticed the colored hair trend just keeps getting bigger and bigger. I did it way back in 2004-2005 when it was still a somewhat "rebellious" thing to do. I wonder, is it now more subversive of me that I don't dye my hair? Is bright the new brown?

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