Plastic Baby

Maybe the only baby you'll ever have will be made of plastic.

Baby Dolly

She's been hiding under my bed, tucked into a sketchbook, since February.

on the wall, on the bed

Latest Snippets

bits and pieces of schoolwork....

Holly Baby

Back at the beginning of the year i worked on an exciting new method of making pictures - hand-painted photographs! All because of a collaboration with photographer Micaela Hoo - Based on the classic film Breakfast at Tiffany's, and utilising a prior photoshoot that she snapped so lovingly.
 Micaela and i decided upon a technicolour theme and so i decided to alter her photos in a way that was reminiscent of the process of hand tinting film, the way they used to do it in the old days. It was a fun concept to play with - embellishing ready-made images instead of creating them from scratch, and i hope to play around with this idea a bit more in the future. (if i can fin any time apart from this gruelling study schedule i've got going on...)
Enjoy!

Photography: Micaela Hoo (http://www.micaelahoo.com and http://www.drifterandthegypsy.com)

Collages and Painting: Caitlin Shearer (http://www.caitlinquiet.blogspot.com/)

Styling: Ashley Abtahie (http://www.ashleyabtahie.com/)

Hair and Makeup: Mikaela South (http://www.joyus.com/host/mikaela-south)

Model: Lindsay at Stars Model Management

a page

... an excerpt from the 'Cupid's Realm' zine.

kisser

hello?

Promise i didn't fall down a wishing well and disappear - all i have time to do these days is focus on studies. At least a diploma in fashion design allows you to draw lots of girls in garments for homework.

ZINE FAIR!!

Hey Sydney-siders - some friends and i are holding a table at the annual MCA zine fair at Circular Quay this coming Sunday. Pop buy if you wanna grab a baby brooch or an issue of my first ever zine. (of course it’s printed on pink paper!)

flowers in a vase / flowers on your grave
NEVER ASK A FLOWER TO UNFURL ITS PETALS.

30% off (prints only) with the coupon code STUDYBUDDY.
https://www.etsy.com/shop/caitlinshearer

Caitlin Shearer for La Lune

Some sneaky little snapshots of some work i did for fashion label La Lune... (textiles to come soon!)

Mermaid Girls

Three wonderful women wearing the illustratedMermaid dress.

Here we have: Hannah of Leopard and Lipstick, Grace of Milkclouds, and Shona, my babely buddy.
Order your own  over in the etsy shop.

Audrey Grace + one of my dresses...

The 'Marie Antoinette' illustrated dress, photographed by Masha Mel for the Audrey Grace boutique.

Autumn vacation means getting back into making things for fun.

A notice from yours truly...

Perhaps you know, perhaps you don't - this year i've begun a diploma of fashion design. The hours are long, the work is intense - so i'm going to have to say a partial goodbye to this blog, to the world of illustration and to the vast and incomprehensible space of the internet for a while. Time is scarce and my priorities have changed. The attraction i had to painting has also shifted and now i feel it's time to recalibrate and learn to reignite the feeling of how much i loved it in the beginning. (When i didn't have to show it to anyone and it had nothing to do with commerce.)
Now is the time to focus on something different - I'm now learning a new set of skills from the ground up and am excited to embark upon this adventure of the mind and hands.

I shall still be here behind the scenes, so if anyone would like to contact me, then please do.
The etsy shop will still be open, and the illustrated dresses will still be for sale - perhaps i'll pop by with a new picture every now and then, but i think i'm going to be content just focusing on life for now.

It's been a pleasure - a delight - and now for something new. Wish me Luck.

mermaids

watercolour mermaids which where then utilised as a textile design for this dress.

something a bit different...

My friend Lauren Anseline created a magazine for her final year of fashion school at UTS and i contributed a bunch of Guy Bourdin inspired pieces.