A Completed Hat!

I finished the hat I was making at IDA just before my internship ended! Here are the photos from the process. There are a few process shots missing since I did three of the construction steps (all the steps involving the sewing machine) on a day where I didn't have my camera.

And there it is~! The first hat that I've made start to finish!! :D

Book Drawings

At the AAAC (Asian American Art Centre) we would often get books from Taipei sent to us from the museum there. We only had use for this edition's book in English so I stole this Mandarin version before it was thrown away and have been using it as a sketch book. Most of these are the result of going to sketch night at the Society of Illustrators.

Making Hats and Other Activities

During these past two months in NYC I've had the opportunity to be apart of austria.info and their Austria. Dirndl Temptation summer events as a 'Dirndl Ambassador'. It's basically an excuse for me to go to events around NYC while dressed in a dirndl, telling people about how awesome/beautiful/fun Austria is and how they can win a trip there. (which you can do here)

When I'm not dressing up and talking to strangers about Austria, I'm dressing up and working two internships. One is with the Asian American Art Centre (who has an awesome artist archive) and the other is at a hat and jewelry store called IDA (where I learn about the hat and jewelry business from two extraordinary women).

The reason I'm telling you all this is that as part of the learning process at IDA I'm allowed to make my own hat from start to finish and I've decided to make something to go with my Austrian dirndl. I wanted to show some the work-in-progress photos of the hat as well as some of the events that I've participated in this summer. There will be more photos in the future as the hat comes to completion.

Things That Inspire - Summer in the City

Magazine Drawings

When it Crumbles - Relief Final (belated post)

(We're all made the same)

Transition (Decomposition through Reincarnation)