I am so excited to share with you behind-the-scenes of our collaboration with Bruneian designer Farhanna from Naforrer. Finally! Organised by EcoAge, The Commonwealth Fashion Project invited designers to collaborate and produce an evening wear. To celebrate this wonderful collaboration between two neighbouring countries, we decided to embrace our shared identity-The Modern Malay Woman. We painted about 3 meters long of neo-florals on silk while Farhanna used wool fleece and songket to be incorporated onto the dress. We used hot wax and crackled it after it's cooled. Can you spot the crackle effect? After we shipped the painted fabric to Brunei, it's time for Farhanna to work on her magic. Can you spot the Bruneian emblem which we painted by hand...
I find it really hard to blog these days while taking care of Iman. I totally underestimated this whole motherhood thing! I always imagined I could do my housework, cook, take care of a baby and run a business. Almost impossible, so I now just do what I can, and take one day at a time! Anyway, in today's post, I wanted to highlight the important events of 2017. The bulk of it was being pregnant, but I'm glad I managed to do quite a bit. End Dec 2016 - Early Jan 2017 - Our first Umrah together! This was taken on flight to Jeddah. February - My first CNY celebration with my hubby's family! Didn't know that some old...
Hey guys, I've finally recovered, well and rested from the busy Celebfest weekend. If you followed through our posts, our latest collaboration features Sijun, a special needs artist. Through his beautiful paintings, we created printed shawls together with matching bags done by Atgab. After months of preparation, singapore fashion runway had an event to showcase his works. Last Saturday was Sijun's big day! He was all calm and happy throughout the event. Here are some of the photos taken during the runway. There were booths for the designers and artists to showcase their creations. Sijun's original paintings which were customized into bags by Elaine of AtGab Inc garnered alot of attention. Most of it were sold! As for the shawls...
If you followed our postings on Instagram, I promised a behind-the-scenes of the process for Sijun's Bright and Sunny scenery shawl. Initially when I received photographs of his paintings, I was already in awe. How can I possible add anything to this painting? I wouldn't want to distort the beautiful landscape painting. Stretching the picture on Photoshop wouldn't do justice.So i figured to work around it! Yesss. I had an idea to subtly expand his paintings. Instead of adding my painterly strokes, I decided to just expand the colours. Flat solid colors. From afar the image will look as one but a closer look, the contrast complements his painting! As I had to draft out my ideas, I chose Sakura's...
#lullyslist | #lullyteachesartHappy Teacher’s Day to fellow educators out there! For the first time today, pre-school teachers get a day off too!It’s been almost 8 years teaching art freelance. Through these years I had the opportunity to share my knowledge and make art with people of all ages- in studios, classrooms and house calls too. It can get mentally exhausting doing lesson plans, teaching...
