Toronto Laser Services

Bunhead write up on Toronto Laser Service's website: http://www.torontolaserservices.com/laser-cutting-projects/bunhead-pins-by-local-artist-emily-taylor/

This is the company that helped me to create my pins. They are amazing to work with! They are so friendly, and so prompt and attentive in their communication with you; only a handful of companies I've ever worked with have had this level of professionalism. And they're local (bonus!). Seriously though, the people at this company are amazing, with one-on-one help and quick to answer any questions I had, and ready to give advice where it was needed, and very accommodating with my rush order! They updated me every step of the way (file creation, material selection, starting cutting, etching, and the final result). I HIGHLY recommend them to anyone interested in having anything laser cut. I do not have enough good things to say about them! 

First Weekend Back to School - Avoiding Homework

Serious procrastination today ... finished my magnets instead (complete with itty-bitty bunhead image transfers)! And here are some plush owls I've been working on (experimenting with hand-embroidery and the use of vintage fabrics); my mum and gram helped me stuff them and sew them shut over the holidays. Huge thanks to them both! ;)

Saturday Night

Working on homework and making wooden fridge magnets ;) we shall see how they turn out! Doing bunhead image transfers on 4 of them ...

GLADSTONE SHOW: ETHEREAL EXISTENCE

Hey! I'm in a show :) Come out and show your support! The show opens January 10th and runs until the 22nd, but the opening reception is on Thursday, January 12th, from 7 - 9 pm (and there will be drinks! haha). 'Ethereal Existence' features the work of 6 OCAD U students: Alex Thompson, Claire Scherzinger, Emily Scherzinger, Emily Taylor, Jaymie Karn, and Singithi Kandage. 

Map and details: http://apache.ocad.ca/events_calendar/eventdetail.php?id=3936 

For more information or directions to the Gladstone, feel free to visit the event's facebook page: Ethereal Existence - A Group Exhibition: http://www.facebook.com/events/289516787767070/

PS. A special thank you to the super-talented Claire! The mastermind behind this show as well as the curator! Check out her work at: http://clairescherzinger.4ormat.com/ 

sticker addict

Happy Holidays Card

Procrastination!

I really need to start working on my pieces for an upcoming show at the Gladstone. Yet the size of this panel daunts me! I need to start I need to start I need to start ...

Zine Preview: Hospital Zine

This is slowly coming along. Maybe by next Canzine it will be ready lol. The illustrations were begun in May and then set aside until the end of November. I've finally started in on the text for it! Eventually, it will be done :)

New Bunhead Pins

Here's a couple new Bunhead pins!

STICKERS!

Hand-painted feather stickers and Bunhead stickers!

Jewelry

Leaf & Berry Earrings and some more experimental pieces (trying to work with different materials, those being coloured yarn, silk threads, vintage fabrics, twill tape and twine).

Image Transfer Experimentation

Thanks Kelly ( http://subconsciousmeanderings.blogspot.com/ )! For showing me how to do this. For some reason this process has long mystified me but it turned out to be pretty easy (and very fun!).

I can't post the other image transfer pieces until after Christmas, but here is my test one, with my logo. In my excitement I put my image on sideways, leaving an awkward bit of negative space on the side. Fortunately Kelly had the genius idea to add a speech bubble! I think it's cute :)

Oh! Yes, there are sparkles on it. I was in Aboveground the other day and picked up some new glitter acrylic gouache (made by Turner). It's a bit addictive. I have to resist putting sparkles on everything now.

Holiday Time

Finally caught up on sleep! And what a difference sleep makes; I'm astonished, really, at how much I have accomplished in the past week by just being rested. I feel like I have been more productive these past couple days than I have been all semester haha.

I haven't really been doing much illustration though! I've made several batches of hand-painted stickers (see merch section), done a lot of jewelry making (6 necklaces, 3 bracelets, and 19 pairs of earrings), experimented with image-transferring onto wood panels ... 4 miniature paintings ... one sewn and embroidered tooth-shaped plush toy for a friend ... started working on some text for a zine I hope to finish, eventually lol ... and illustrated a holiday card!

Now to stop procrastinating on what I really have to do! Start (and finish) some pieces for a show, upcoming in January, at the Gladstone. :)

Freedom Soon!

Sorry Sorry Sorry Sorry Sorry!

I haven't posted anything new in close to a month. I will soon! My last class thesis class ... actually last class ... of the semester is this Tuesday. I can't wait for the holiday break!

I'll post up the remaining work from the semester.

I will also post up a zine in progress which I've been working on-and-off on since May! It's getting there! All of the art is pretty much done. Now onto the text, the printing, and the hand binding!

I'll be updating my Merch section as well - posting the zines and buttons I currently have in stock. Newly -made bunhead stickers will be posted .... and there's something else that's new and cute coming to the Merch section too! So keep on checking! ;)

I will also be posting some holiday stuff. Illustrated cards, wrapping papers, gift tags, etc! Exciting!



So...
I'll be back.
Soon!
- Em

Thesis

Thesis pitch: 

A whimsical collection of illustrations derived from the misinterpretations of peculiar and often absurd recipe names, depicted as though literally translated through the eyes of a child. 

Thesis pieces 3 & 4 (I want to add things to 1 & 2 before posting them!): this is "Beavertails" and "Angel-hair pasta"

International Buy Nothing Day

It's coming up - it's November 25th this year in North America, the 26th Internationally. This illustration was created for my illustration activism class. I don't often work digital voluntarily, but for this I did. Now I am having trouble choosing which to hand in for my final copy! The sketch is here included, and the green version is not really in the running for the final (I just liked how it looked.. it's different). The concept for this piece was the extremes some people would need to be driven to to stop their consumption for a day ... lock up the wallet and swallow the key!

 

CANZINE 2011

BUNHEAD PINS

COME TO CANZINE THIS SUNDAY IF YOU'D LIKE ONE!

Canzine!
Sunday, October 23
918 Bathurst Centre
918 Bathurst St. (just north of Bloor)
1 - 7pm


Laser cut baltic birch bunheads! Some hand-painted, some left natural wood. Some turned into pins and others into necklaces!  Come and get one!! :)

Broken Pencil - Canzine Portrait

Thank you Claire! :)

http://www.brokenpencil.com/news/the-canzine-portraits-emily-taylor

In-class Doodle

I'm actually going to try to make more of an effort when drawing hair on my characters - usually it's a last minute thing after I've finished their faces :s I was playing with a stomp last week during class and liked the results ... maybe I'll do more..