The Process

 This was my third collaboration with Kate from Parties and Paint by Kate. Kate owns and runs her own character entertainment business and working with her on character shoots is one of my absolute favorite things! We first did an Alice themed shoot then we did Tink in spring 2022. For this third session I knew we would be shooting during wildflower season and so I wanted to have Kate be a character that could lend itself to the greenery and flowers. The giant flower braid that Rapunzel wears seemed like a perfect accent to a field of flowers. Because Kate comes with her own hair, make up and costumes I get to focus on location, props and posing. To figure out props for a character shoot I always go to the source. I watch, listen to and look at many different versions of the story the character is from. I try to choose a variety of time periods to source the material from to give myself as broad of a perspective as possible.