Harder better faster -- better

 

I'm attending to an art course dealing with human and real models. It's all very new to me, because I'm no artist. I'm anyways interested in this project - I rarely participate in anything this.. artistic. Of course I work with P-pas prints and outlook and stuff, but this kind of a more traditional art has been out of my league. I once tried to draw, it was year ago, but I couldn't find that my thing that would have kept me expressing myself. Maybe I'll get excited and continue sketching and designing.

I'd like to adopt a more graphic style when it comes to drawing. It's easy to work with pencils and pencil shading, but plain lines are more challenging. I fancy pop-art and minimalism, so I'm going to turn these two pictures above into pop-arty drawings à la style below. It's easy to manipulate photos in the computer, but we'll see if I manage to get some coolness done with my bare hands and black marker pens.

 

 

I usually don't play with my photos this much. There's just been something really temptating with pastels and fresh colours. Anyways I always wear black, white and grey. Occasionally brown, too. How boring (or normal..) can a design-entrepreneur look?

Have a nice weekend!

xoxo, Essi


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A promise is promise

I made some food yesterday, because I had promised my mom and grand-mother to do that. About six hours before the dinner I started to think about the menu. I don't do fast food or other simple shiet when it comes to real dinner, so after a while of thinking I came up with Italian foods like these:

Starter

Parma ham and cantaloupe

figs, crostinis, honey-almond-brie

&

coil-salt,

honey

and 

a bit of truffle oil

Main course

risotto in white wine
with

mushrooms,

bacon

and 

sun-dried tomatos

Dessert

Cheese cake

with

fresh vanilla

and 

hints of orange&lemon juice and peels

accompagned with

orange&lemon sauce

Mm-yeah. It was okay.

Tomorrow I'm going to be interviewed on a local newspaper, which is great. I might get to Finland's biggest newspaper aswell, but it's still uncertain. But what is certain, P-pas will be seen on a popular Finnish women's magazine (free advertising space, niiice! - even though it's just a small-ish note) in a few weeks.

What else? ! Jingle Bell Rock -jewel collection has come out. Check it out here and tune in Xmas spirit! Whoa.

xo,

Essi

The horror dawg

I didn't work much yesterday. The main reason was my mental coma, but an otrher factror also affected me: my hunnybunny Toto, who had a small surprise under his bandana scarf. The dog was wearing the scarf to cover  two operation cuts from the day before yesterday (Toto had two sebaceous glands removed from the neck area), but it turned out the Bandana didn't protect them too well. When I had a look under the scarf, an unpleasant suprise hit me.

The 15-cm-long seaming had partly teared so that the freshly-stitched skin opened up nicely. I told myself not to take it too seriously, because the cut hap opened only 2-3 cm. I just shivered a bit and tried to fix the damage. Bandaid-coverage seemed like a good idea, but when Toto decided to scratch the itchy cut on the back of his neck, I had to face the the most unpleasant surprise ever.

the cut before the actual tearing

The teared cut had doubled its size. There was a wide, bright pink hole on the neck, which caused a slight panic among me and my mother. I screamed and laughed (in shock) and almost cried and ran around the house and tried to figure out what to do with the monster dog from hell. Toto really looked like a killer dog from a B-class horror movie. He shook his head, which only made the open cut look worse and more.. wide.
Thank God we got to the vet nearly immediately. It was 9 PM when all of this happened, so reaching an available veterinarian wasn't the easiest task on Earth. But luckily Toto was tacked and closed up in only 30 minutes from the big horror scenario. No great damage caused - aside the traumatising effect on me and my mom.

Pinkie-boy recovering and having a good night's sleep

Besides this drama, I have some exciting P-pas news:  I decided to let the Vintage market go, because more is less and P-pas is better off without second hand. I do use second hand and other recycled materials on Stay Tuned -clothes anyway!

- Essi

Inspirations

As every person, every object has its history. In this case every one of these pieces have an interesting story to tell, because they belonged to my artistic grand parents. Now it's time for them to find new home, because both of my grand parents have passed away. It's a shame I didn't get to know then too well, it would have been interesting to talk about ethetics, art life (the circles are very small in Finland so almost everyone knows everyone) and.. just about whatever. They would have had amazing stories to share, but it's too late now.

I don't feel like I've followed the footsteps of my family. Of course I'm related to normal people aswell, but there are many persons working with art or design. I'd like to be as talented as my cousins (other is magazine photographer, other a graphic designer who's worked for Marimekko, for example) or my grandmother, who was really dedicated to graphic drawing and painting.

Outi Heiskanen, a graphic designer

Instead of being really productive on fine arts, I feel I'm more a.. visual person. I like to see, observe, visualize, but the executing isn't my thing. Or at least not as much as organizing and doing ten thing at the same time. I enjoy hussling and planning more than concentrating on one thing. I like the big picture.

Even though it might seem that P-pas is just a label among others, it's 100% about esthetics. Everything I and my partners do to make P-pas better and better could be described as art. Art of daydreaming (because I don't sleep at nights, ''ha ha''..), art of creating, art of carrying through. I could do a posting about how a print collection is born, but there's no brief versions to describe the process. It's about loads of planning about

a) themes

b) shapes

c) colours

d) materials

e) quantity

f) quality (which is always excellent, obviously)

and much more. It's exciting, frightening and inspiring. Exciting, because it feels wonderful to give talented designers a chance to show their abilities - there will be an amazing collection designed by Maria Niemi round New Year! Frightening, because as a 18-year-old student/entrepreneur I can't afford too many bad choices on things that could cost me a fortune. And inspiring, because everything P-pas does is so goddamn cool you can't not get exhilarated about all the ideas and visions and creativity.

That's all I have to say.

xo, Essi

Visual shit

Some psychedelic-like snapshots of framed Get Decorated -photos. They look really cool on size A4!

Check out the latest Get Printed arrivals: the eco-bags!

Now I'm off to sauna instead of going to sleep. I must tidy the whole bathroom, it's been awhile since I've last done that. It's also been awhile since I've done my homework. And since I've really slept. Darn.

xo,

- Essi