Chèle arts & design By : Michèle Parent

2006-06-01T05:17:00.000-04:00

Michèle and a camera!

2006-05-19T18:17:00.000-04:00

A Day at the Park

2006-05-08T22:13:00.000-04:00

Born and raised in a small town, I dreamed large; as large as New York or Paris. I was going to become a famous artist and designer. No one could stop me, well beside “ME”. Instead, I created my nest here in Sudbury Ontario. You could call this place a large town or a small city, all up to you I guess. My favorite part of this town is Bell Park. It’s where I love to go when I need to reconnect with myself and my dear love Michael. Today I created Images for you to enjoy and appreciate. A proof that the fast life paced that I’ve always dreamed of, also needs a refreshing break once in a while. This place is a lot better than what I’ve originally heard of. Take the time to get to know somewhere the same way you’d get to know someone. It’s worth it!

Last year's memorie has just been photoshoped

2006-05-05T13:59:00.000-04:00

New Addition to Yesterday pictures

2006-05-04T02:26:00.000-04:00

A moment of creativity

2006-05-02T01:08:00.000-04:00

At this point, I should be dead of exaustion, but no matter how tired my body is, my brain never seems to stop. I'm no creative genius or anything , but I love art, colors and photography. here are a few picture that I have had the oportunity to create. One good camera and a computer, the world is mine...muah ha ha! in other words ( shut up dork and show the pics) Now enjoy and if not, well sucks to be you!

I would love to thank everybody that lets me take a snap shop of ya'll in the moment. I'm just training you to become supah stars...well maybe getting use to my constant flashes dosen't make you a super star but it defenitely makes cool pictures.

A Night Out for a Good Cause

2006-04-01T23:53:00.000-05:00

This is the second year that myself and some friends of mine have been supporting Access Aid through there modeling show. Yesterday ( that would have been march 31st / 06) we took part of there try out. It was great, I had a blast. So me, Helen, Katie and Johnson all made it through the next round which will take place April 21st at Zigg’s our fabulous local gay bar. Here are some picture of our evening. And for the one concern, good job guys!

And exactly a week from this date, it was our opening night for the show “Of the Fields, lately” A David French play, set design by Helen “the tall one” Musgrave and costume design by myself Michèle “the short one” Parent. And last but not least, Stage managed by Crystal “the loud one” MacDonnell.

The shape of a Girl

2006-03-08T15:44:00.000-05:00

bullying

We've just ended another show called "The Shape of a Girl" It was a play about bullying and the parallel between the true story of reena virk, the young 15 year old girl that got killed by other girls in victotia B.C. in 1997. They brutally beatened her, then burned a cigarette to her forhead then one of the girls "kelly Ellard" held her head under water with her foot while smoking a cigarette till her body stoped moving . By the end of the week the whole school new about the this awfull story, but no one told, fearing there own safety. They found reena's body one week later flowting in the river. This was a tragedy. A monster in the shape of a girl, a girl in the a sape of a monster. girls killing girls.as the play and every newpaper describe the tragedy. The play was dark, but very realistic in an odd way.

This are picture of the play we just did with the amazing and talented actress Mary Krohnert.

If you ever got or being bullyed at the moment, I is o.k. to say something to a trusted adult. You are not alone and it's not o.k. for anybody to make you feel that you're worthless. You have the right to be different and respected for it. This is your life, you are in charge of making a success out of it. It is alright to doubt and fear. But it isn't alright for others to dictate and control you by fear. You are strong and beautiful persone. Talk to someone and if for any reason they don't give you the security you need, talk to someone else. Good luck!

And if your not the person being bullyed, but everyday you come in contact with a bullyed persone. Help them, they are human and all they need is a hand. And if you fear for yourself by being seen with that persone. just tell an adult about it so they ca help them. it is also your responsability to save a life!

Say cheese!

2006-02-27T20:26:00.000-05:00

New camera!

Yesterday, I purchased a new digital camera. It’s a Fuji FinePix S5100 and thank god for tax returns.. So for the next little while, I will post new picture of my surrounding on my blog. Beware there friends, your just a snap shot away from being on the internet.. muah ha ha. Yeah I know, I’m mean..and soon I'll become absolutely annoying!!! No problem, my pleasure, really!!! Here you go, this is the last 48 hours of my life, well in between dead battery issues and tiny memory card anyway! And for the one of you that are confused of my choice of subjects, well I work in a theatre, and today was light focusing day. the show is called "The shape of a girl" And for all of you that are in the pictures, good job guys...and girls.

Happy valentin's day

2006-01-29T18:41:00.000-05:00

Like the greatest opportunities of life, love just happens when you expect it the least. The day you become the most important person in your life, you’ll be given the chance to true love. If you love and respect yourself, you will recieve it in return. I once believed that love was hard work and you had to compromise everything in order to make it somewhat work. The truth is, yes in a relationship you’ll have to compromise, but never compromising your values and morals. Never lose yourself trying to please someone else. Love is a powerful emotional state, make sure it is a positive one also. Don’t confuse emotional dependence with love. Love has to be healthy and positive.

The 14th of February is the celebration of love. It should be the day where you say thank you for everything, but it shouldn’t be the only day. It’s very easy to take everything for granted or for a relationship to become old and meaningless. Everyday should be a celebration of your love. Just say thank you for everything your appreciative of.

My special thank you this valentine’s day is for my sweetheart Michael. I just want to say how much I love you and how much I appreciate you. There is not a morning I wake without feeling like you’re my ray of sunshine for the day. And I thank god every night that I have the chance to lay beside you. I feel so special when I’m in your arms. I also love how we laugh and goof around all the time. I have these butterfly in my stomach whenever you tell me that you love me in the most unexpected moments or the look in your face when you stare n my eyes. I love how you compromise on random little things, in exchange of a smile on my face.

I would give you the world or the moon, whichever would make you happier if I could. I love you so much, it almost hurt inside. I want to spend the rest of my life with you and hope everyday that I mean the same for you. My life is a better place since I know you and I believe we can grow stronger. I love you so much baby!

Beauty is in the Eyes of the Beholder

2006-01-09T03:13:00.000-05:00

Beauty; what is beautiful for me, might not be for you, and vice versa. I believe in the beauty of imperfection, but yet, I’m a pure idealist. I need to literally understand and analyse everything, yet I have a strong passion for abstract and contemporary art. An art were no subject is ever fully concrete. It usually is, a reflection of an emotion or a state of mind, while still pleasing the eyes. I find beauty in simplicity, like the sun reflecting is astonishing colors through the multi layers of clouds. Beauty is also vulnerable, like in the eyes of a child walking toward his loving mother with harms wide open. Beauty is also very sensual, it flows upon every women’s curves like a gentle caress. Beauty is raw; like two body’s intertwine with love and warm sweat dripping into every cress of there skin. Beauty is for ourself to define, not for the media to impose. These are a few pictures that inspires me beauty. what do you define beautiful?

Un Petit Bonjours Pour Tout le Monde de Hearst

2006-01-09T00:54:00.000-05:00

Bonjour tout le monde. Je voulas faire sure de ne pas exclure persone, Donc pour ceux que l’anglais c’est pas leur affaire, je vais vous donnerz un peu de mes nouvelle en francais. J’habite maintenent Sudbury depuis le premier décembre 2003. Avant j’habitait Calgary Alberta, je suis aller passer du temps avec ma petite soeur Geneviève.

En ce moment je travaille au theatre de Sudbury. Je construit des costumes et je design les costumes des prochains cinqs piece de theatre. Sa fait maintenent près de deux ans que je travaille au theatre. Mon Chum ce nomme Michael. Nous sommes enssemble depuis Halloween 2004 un peu plus dún ans. Il est le directeur technique du theatre.

Donc si quelques un d’entre vous passez par Sudbury , laissez moi un message. A bientot, et prenez soins de vous.

My Friends

2006-01-08T21:54:00.000-05:00

Do some of you remembers the day you said to a best friend(s) of yours, that you’ll be friends forever? That you’d go to the same school, live in the same town, date the same kind of guys/girls, be maid of honour or best man at each others wedding and be each others godmother’s or godfather’s for there children’s? Yeah I did too. The thing is, life changes, so does our dreams and values. I personally turned out very different from my friends from high school. I don’t know if it’s because I grew up in a relatively small town, but most of my friends turned out to have nothing in common with me or they have a multitude of children or they live somewhere else in this vast country of ours.

I think that the hardest part is the process is from point A to point B. Let’s not even talk about point C to Z yet if you don’t mind. The thing is, we are meant to change, to evolve emotionally, mentally and spiritually. I believe that each one of us needs a reason to be. We need to understand our past, learn from it, and let go of it, so we can built a better more balanced and healthy future. Nobody said it was suppose to be easy. Everything past the moment right now is pretty much unknown and un-controllable. Most people would just rather live everyday, never questioning a thing. I guess what you don’t know doesn’t hurt you right. False: what you ignore will hunt you till you face it. There are so many beautiful thing out there, why waste some space in your heart on regrets.

We all make decisions in life, and they all have consequences , positive or negative, the point is: if you have to make the effort to make a decision, better just make the best one in the first place. Today I still feel like I’m in a constant change. But I’m a lot more mature and conscious at making decisions . I made new friends since high school , some o.k. friends, some good friends and some great friends. We all learn something new about ourselves trough every friendship.

I would like to say hello to everybody that made an impact on my life, even with only a single laugh, every bit count. Thanks

My Love Hate Relationship with Sewing

2006-01-08T05:00:00.000-05:00

Ok, how would someone explain loving something they hate so much at the same time? Ya I don’t know either. I started to design fashion at the age of twelve, so by the time I turned 16, I felt like my design were a waste. Once they were drawn, they were gone. So one beautiful day, I asked my father (whom didn’t have much money) if it was possible to have a sewing machine three month ahead of my birthday. After much laughing at me (mostly because I’d never use a sewing machine before that day), he rolled up all his coins, 250$ of them, and bought his daughter a sewing machine.

My first item! A jacket, obviously without a sewing pattern, (mainly because I couldn’t understand there sewing vocabularies) so I stared for a while at another jacket of mine, stopped breathing for like 2hours and pray to god or whom ever cared up there to help me. oh! And for the record, I do have a sewing angel. I really should invite him/her out for a drink one day. Everybody could use a little martini here and there.

Going back to my story, the jacket work out. Don’t get me wrong here. I screw up A LOT of stuff on my sewing journey. My motto: just make it up, don’t worry about screwing it up. It will onlyt make a great story later. Whenever I`ll savour my success as a fabulous fashion designer. I really got better since. So I’m not yet a fabulous fashion designer, but I’m certainly making my way up as a costume designer…and for the fabulous part…I’ll let you decide if I’m worth the title.

Here are some recent and older outfit that I design and made. some from my graduation pictures from 2000 and the others have been made for opening nights at the theatre. Hope you enjoy as much as I enjoy wearing them.

2006-01-08T02:43:00.000-05:00

This would be me,
a little french canadian girl
from nothern Ontario

My Dear Love For Design

2006-01-07T23:48:00.000-05:00

D esign; there are many t hings one can design or innovate out there. Where should I start. Oh, let's start with my first love; Fashion. I wante d to become a fashion d esigner before I knew that it wa s cal l ed "fashion design". At three years of age, I would make dresses in front of the mirror wi th a bed sheet and whatever was laying around.

B y twelve, I started to draw. Not bad…my people had no feet, no hands and no head. It was to hard to do. I had very little concept of a proportio nate human body then.

T oday, wel l I still wish I was better. I will always wish I was better, but the point is; my people lo oks lik e people, mostly like healthy models…I can not draw any anorexic women. I’m idealistic not crazy.

T hese are a few sketches I made recently. I`ll try to post some in color soon.

Building Theatre Costumes/Prop

2006-01-07T22:33:00.000-05:00

We just opened a show called Aladdin before Christmas , and I had to make this crazy French camel. I had to sculpt his head out of Styrofoam then cover it up with fabric. It was realy stressful cuz I didn’t really know how to do it in the first place. So I had to remind myself that if others could make it..I could too. I felt great when all the children laughed so hard a the camel. Nothing is more honest than a child's laughter.

A Little About Me

2006-01-07T22:04:00.000-05:00

Hey! I’m still new at this so bear with me a little. This is me. I’m 24 years old, and love almost everything creative. I’m presently working in theatre as the head of wardrobe / costume designer. My style grows everyday, so do I ..well personality-wise, emotionally and mentally anyway... but at this point, I believe that I will never grow past my 5 foot nothing *greatness*.

My Second Love for Design

2006-01-07T21:47:00.000-05:00

I grew up with verry little money. After my dad`s accident our income got reduce by half. From that moment, I removed myself to my fantasy world most of the time. So from that moment my obsession with innovating or creating things grew stronger. I began to design furniture. I love their purpose, I love there style, but most of all, I love the statement one could make with a single piece of furniture that reflect one’s personality, while organizing your life and *beautifying* your surrounding.

At that point in my teenage mind, I was certain to be doomed to the miserable life of a struggling artist. In my mind, I would be living downtown Toronto, Montreal or New York in a tiny loft, which every inch would've had a major purpose. At that point I started to design useful furniture that would also please my eyes. Here are a few designs that I made a few years ago.