| brush in hand |

This post is going to contain some of my make up work, which is few and far between at the moment because I have focused all of my attentions on my current degree. However, I do have some interesting pictures from some of the work I did last year and a couple of experiments that I have dabbled in this year. I've decided that all posts related to make-up and hair styling will be in a different typeface, in order to distinguish between the disciplines. 

This was done with photographer Mark Freebs for a personal porfolio.

Model: Jenna Upton

Make Up & Hair: Amy Olivia

Photographer: Mark Freebs

Model: Christina Lubushagne
Hair & Make Up: Amy Olivia
Photographer: Matthew Schrire

Kirsten Bing
Springfield Matric Dance 2010
Hair & Make Up: Amy Olivia

Model: Megan Petrie
Hair: Tandem Constantia
Make Up: Amy Olivia

 Thats that for now. I have a couple shoots coming up, so I will be sure to add some more. I also have editing to complete on other photographs, so those will be joining this lot.

| zine infested |

For our final brief for the semester we had to create a zine. What is a zine? A zine is a less-influenced-by-popular-culture-conventions form of a magazine. It's purpose it to advertise you as a person, agency, organization in any way you see fit. It is generally something that is put together in a format that is as cheap as possible and then photocopied and distributed as need be.

We were briefed with the task of creating a zine in a group that was metaphorically a design agency, had it been in the "real world". We had to come up with an agency name for our design agency, use a specific theme and run with it throughout "issue one" of our zine.

My "design agency" came up with the name Flint, the conceptual link behind it being that we are instigators of great things. After a long process of finding the right way to conceptually design our zine, we arrived at the ever so marvelous point of using lemon juice to write secret messages on the paper. People would then have to hold a flame underneath the page to reveal the message. Therefore, when you received our zine, you would receive a "blank" book with a box of matches. We decided to go with the theme: a world ruled by designers. We put our own spin on it and altered it to read LITTLE TRADE SECRETS IN A WORLD RULED BY DESIGNERS. 

Below are some pictures of the already burnt book, we had to hand in one blank one and one already "burnt".

This is the front cover [we named our zine issue one HUSH HUSH to extend the concept]

Page One: The theme page [designed by Adeline van Eck]

Page Two: Design Secret One [designed by Natalie Retief]

Page Three: Design Secret Two [designed by Adeline van Eck]

Page Four: Design Secret Three [designed by Lara Heley]

Page Five: Design Secret Four [designed by Amy Soule (me)]

Page SIx: Design Secret Five [designed by Genevieve Chorn ]

We thought it came out pretty well, and I am so glad I got to steal Adeline's camera to take some decent photos for a change.


So long.

|something that I covert|

As I might have mentioned, I was a serious dancer for 12 years of my very short life, towards the end, it became very intense, to a point where I would have been professional (by South African Standards) if I had been paid and was part of a company. Anyway, I had to make some choices and ended up giving it up in 2008. Over the past two years I really have missed it and regret the choice indefinitely.

However, what has this got to do with this post? We had to dabble in the art of printing methods but with two colours. I choose to go the route of Lino cutting. Our theme was: something that you covert. Hence, that's where the dancing comes in.

Here are some of the images from my process. (Please excuse the hideous picture quality, I am in between camera's right now)

This is a series of dancers. I found inspiration in images that were taken of a good friend that I used to dance with, Mila de Biaggi.

These are the final prints in the various colours and layouts that I experimented with.

The above blocks are the printing blocks. You have to carve away the surrounding negative space in order to be left with the image that you want to print.

The final product.

I enjoyed working with this medium. It was definitely something different for me and, in my personal opinion, I really like the way that they turned out.