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Meg Max | After many months of waiting in anticipation I am happy to share the new portraits fully of Meg Max (and her ...
04/15/2026

Meg Max |

After many months of waiting in anticipation I am happy to share the new portraits fully of Meg Max (and her beautiful hair, look how gorgeous!)

Meg won a portrait session with me for donating to support the Ottawa Trans Library turned into a full end portrait production for her rebrand that she worked tirelessly with to create.

Meg is a writer and multi-media q***r/ neurodivergent( we love) artist working in so-called Ottawa. She works as a facilitator for other neurospicy baddies to process and create as a radical act of self care.

The portraits needed to tie in the grounded and supa cool 😎 nature of Megs work, while still remaining relatively professional (whatever that means). She also wanted to ensure we showed off all her neat little crafts which are also featured as part of the website design!

Thanks Meg for the trust and Casper for making it all slick and rad 🔥

If this sounds appealing to you - Meg has an upcoming online workshop “Too Tired for Words” on April 19th from 10:00am - 12:00pm

If you need website design support hit up Casper ❤️🫡

Thanks for having me CAWI City For All Women Initiative: une ville pour toutes les femmes IVTF!
04/07/2026

Thanks for having me CAWI City For All Women Initiative: une ville pour toutes les femmes IVTF!

March Light Study - Omar Apollo Ivory This one was honestly tough, it was a busy and a bit of a in the feels kind of mon...
03/30/2026

March Light Study - Omar Apollo Ivory

This one was honestly tough, it was a busy and a bit of a in the feels kind of month. Which meant I was listening to a lot of similarly toned songs as one does! I was listening to a lot of Chavela Vargas who was a Q***r Mexican singer who came out when she was 80, and gained recognition for her interpretation of Rancheras. These types of songs usually cover the themes of love, heartbreak and/or nature.

So anyway, initially was considered doing one of her covers but rain into issues; namely I’m not Mexician nor do I live in a location with consistently nice weather.

So returning to other music, I ended up listening to .apollo Ivory, specifically the song “ En El Olvido“ reminded me of the Vargas songs and I opted to do this cover instead.

This one was a tough one to do, I believe the original cover had opted to use a net flag for the transition between light and dark, which is something I have been putting off for years of actually purchasing. So unfortunately we had to use opaque card flags, I also did posed the wrong way and you know….bunch of other happen stance things lead to a near but not quite exact result. But that’s the fun with this, learning and exploring light to become better at this kind of thing.

This one was particularly challenging to recreate and get into the headspace for, and I take it as a win as I did learn a lot and what I can do better for next time!

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