On Tuesday I met with Ketih and Jess to do a Poison Ivy/Harley Quinn photoshoot in Sugar Grove. Even though Poison Ivy is one of the sexiest costumes I have created, I never got a good professional photoshoot as her and Keith really wanted to do something with the character so we collaborated. Jess also wanted to do some work with Keith as well and being she did Harley Quinn, it only made sense to invite her to the shoot. We had a blast.

Jess was a little weary and cranky from a long day of work prior to the shoot and the 100% weather, but once she got into costume and started posing she lightened up and Keith got some fantastic pictures of her!

Keith usually prefers to work indoors where he controls the backdrop and lighting completely, but I convinced him to so a few shots outside amongst some really creepy foliage and he really enjoyed it and the shots outside might have been the best from the day. I hope he tries to do more outdoors and in less controlled enviornments because I'm hoping to connect him with some work where flexibility with environments is a must, and I think he'll find he's extremely good at it.

It will take him a week or two to start working on the photos. If he decides to make a gumprint it will take even longer than that, but I'm extremely excited to see how they turned out. I'll post them here as I receive them!

I met up with Keith Gerling for coffee and we discussed plans for a photoshoot with my Poison Ivy costume and also another photoshoot where I'll be his assistant as he photographs professional model Claudine. He also gave me some of his artwork!

Keith is extremely talented. Using old techniques of gumprinting and tintyping, he creates unique pieces of art that almost look like paintings rather than photographs. It's a time consuming craft that is almost extinct now; the gumprint he made of me on the left took him a whole month to complete. He has done a few other gumprints and tintypes of me in other collaborations.