get ready for ALIX & OLIVIER our new fashion line

 Let's have a party everybody, the LCEF came through again and granted us our requested grant amount!!  The line will feature fashion design and artwork by Michelle Beatty and Sarah Dunn.  An organic line featuring fashions created from organic cotton, silks, bamboo, and hemp fabrics.  All fabrics will feature hand screened or digital images by none other but Beatty and Dunn.

Our new studio located on Alix & Olivier was the inspiration for our new brand name.  More info to come... right now I gotta experiment with dyes :)

I got to do some demos for the kids at Lyon..

 

I had such a blast with the kids in Meghan's class!  We got through about 7 classes and while Meghan taught them how to create some amazing art of their own I talked to them about color and inspiration. 

So much fun!!!

see more pics after the jump

My first place design at New Orleans' Worn Again fashion show is featured in the very crafty national magazine Altered Couture!!

The article gives all the deets about the show.  Also including a how to about creating an award winning dress out of bits of fabric and an eating utensil..

How To: Upholstery Fabric into Faux Fur

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I stumbled onto this technique about 48 hours before a very important deadline.  I was given a bag of old clothes and bits of fabric that I (a first time seamstress with a 3 hour course under my belt) was to recreate into a runway worthy garment competing along some of New Orleans' top designers.  So my faithful muse and make up artist, Glenn Mosely, grabbed a fork...  keep reading to find out what you can do with some bits of leftovers and an eating utensil

Welcome to my New Blog

I am still importing all the fun stuff and info from my other sights.  Hang tight and in no time there will be oogles of goodies, how to's, articles, and much more to dig through :)

Oxygen Network Showcases 13 of my paintings in Season 7 of Bad Girls Club!

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Oxygen's BGC picked New Orleans to film the latest season of their hit show Bad Girls Club.  They chose the former home of NBA coach Byron Scott for filming and had powerhouse designers Jeff Eyser and Alexis Karpf remake it into any woman's dream house.  The space was complete with a 400 sq. ft. make- up room but they had yet to find a New Orleans artist with the kind of vibrant contemporary feel they were looking for.  Their search for a local artist ended the second they found Sarah Ruth's website full of every shade of pink imaginable. Watch the behind the scenes video with designer Jeffrey Eyser here.

Old Sketchbook Finds: doodles in black and white

"love" sketch