Belle Glamour Photography MOD Fashion Shoot

Belle Glamour Does MOD Fashion Shoot

I suppose it shows my age if I admit to loving the MOD Squad when I was little. It was so cool as a show and the 3 characters seemed so tough and smart. Not that my recent fashion shoot had much to do with that show but whenever I think MOD I think MOD Squad! With 7 models, and a fabulous Makeup Artist, I styled and photographed this fun editorial shoot. The models had so much fun dressing up and trying to coordinate the found outfits. None of the clothes except a few vintage accessories were from that time period but by combing through Goodwill stores and finding that right look that reminded me of the '60's I found some fun fashions!

Here is the video above for the shoot-Enjoy!

Angelia M.'s photostream

Angelia M.'s photostream on Flickr.

I've been doing quite a bit of fashion and glamour photography in Denver and recently will be opening my own studio for personal use and for a photographer rental! I'm looking for props, painting, cleaning and landscaping to get it just right for clients. I'm so excited!

"Suspense" Illustration Friday

Here is my interpretation of the theme of Illustration Friday- "Suspense" Is the monster going to eat the goth girl or is she going to turn around and punch him? They both look like they could do each other damage but I think what will happen is she'll adopt the lizard monster as a friend...and they lived happily ever after.

Poetry in Motion

 These photos that I took in December when the pond was half frozen I turned into digital paintings by using Adobe Photoshop. I took them with considerable blur but enhanced the images with some editing. The images were taken at a park's pond with ducks and snow/ice. I thought they made beautiful abstract images. Sometimes the art of seeing is not seeing anything at all.

"Stripes" Illustration Friday

Is this a desperate attempt at meeting the prompt this week? An illiteration with the letter "S"? I chose to do another paper piece with some striped paper. Seven Swans a Swimming Soaking in Striped life Savers. I'm paper illustrating the 12 days of Christmas as the season is almost here for such artistic folly. This was my take on the swan part to that long, long song.

I actually love swans having snapped a few dozen pictures of them during our visit to London near Kensington Palace. S for Snow was appropriate for the Denver area again this week. We got over 6 inches of the stuff with cold temperatures. Sunny today though. Maybe more tomorrow. Sweet!-if it's going to be cold, bring on the snow!

Cut Paper Bridal Fashion Illustration

I love quilling and making these paper dresses with all the frou frou works when I quill the pieces as I did for all the ruffles on the dress. I also love this shade of pink-sort of ballet pink. Her head piece is tissue paper which I'd originally cut to try making tissue paper flowers. I took it apart and used the individual paper petals to make her veil. I quilled the 'orchids' for her bouquet using paper punch and dotting the color on the centers to look like white/mauve phalaenopsis. Brushes from Photoshop compete the background. I'm just having so much fun making these!

Illustration Friday "Scary"

No, I didn't think this was a good illustration for the 'scary' prompt because scary rhymes with fairy. I actually find the idea of the unknown beneath the surface of the lake or a pond and even the ocean to be very scary. Growing up we'd swim in lakes and that squishy bottom you'd walk on was always scary. Like under-the-bed monsters the lake had aquatic ones! This cut paper piece is mixed media (wrapping paper, scrap booking paper, hand painted paper, etc) and 3D by raising up the elements. I digitally blurred the fish to give him the underwater treatment but other than that no other digital. I'm not into scary things so the ghoulish holiday isn't my thing. But Happy Halloween anyway!

Cut Paper Fashion Illustration

We're expecting snow by tomorrow. Looks like an indoor project is just the thing. I have been working on fashion model drawings which has been good practice for figure drawing. Sometimes, no matter how well one knows how to draw, the human body still remains one of the toughest for me. I'll draw hands and look at them embarrassingly so as they look like I draw like a 7th grader. Hands are totally impossible. I've learned to have to make them much longer than you think. Practice makes perfect! I love cut paper and combining these two-fashion and paper I love making the dresses so here is another one. I also get to use all my quilling supplies and made another bouquet with quilling techniques.

"Fuel" Illustration Friday

My week's illustration is a new concept I've been working on:  Recreating lovely dresses on paper croquis using mixed media to do so. This is different paper, beads, newspaper, and I  made the flower bouquet from quilling skills. It is framed and textures added in Photoshop. I've been working on developing my fashion illustration skills also.

So what fuels the little girl's desire to get married? Biology? Society? Expectations? Why when I watch "Say Yes to the Dress" I often hear, "I want to look like a Princess"...So is it Disney? mmmm...When did getting married become so out of control? Party favors for your guests? Never heard of anything like that 23 years ago. I thought a good dinner and entertainment to help you celebrate the nuptials was enough. Now there is ice sculptures complete with running martinis, comfy sofa areas for lounging, predinner, dinner, and after dinner options-the list goes on. Perhaps it is some people's priority to have a huge celebration and there are others who elope. I guess the options are endless but I always wonder how we got to having so many options in the first place!