I am coming to the end of my 3 years at university, this is my last term, I finish in June; so this term is all about pulling it all together and finishing everything off rather than making. So I haven’t had the time to make much to post.
But in the process of getting my portfolio ready for marking I have been bulking up my costume drawing section. I did these over the past few days, just a bit of acrylic and pencil.
Do you recognise any of them?
It’s been speedy speedy working on this costume, a pretty short deadline. Not quite finished here, still work to do on the skirt.
I didn’t do much on the finishing off of this, mainly making very very long tubes for very long ruffles.
But I had to post the finished result all the same.
Even though she never actually said it, Marie Antoinette's most well known saying is without a doubt “Let them eat cake”, so what else could we make into a hat other than a cupcake.
We used plastazote, Denise carved the top and I sorted out the case and the plate. We started off with a pattern for a miniature top hat and built it out from there.
After a couple of coats of latex its starting to take shape. It needs a few more coats, some shimmery paint and some airbrushing, but it should look pretty cute.
Denise recently wrote an article on being inspired by history to create a dress, but not actually making it historically accurate. So to go along with it we are making a dress inspired by Marie Antoinette.
Its quite a quick little project, and starts out with netting. Lots and lots of layers of netting.
The sewing machine kind of got buried in it all.
Denise found two silk wedding dresses for £5 each in a jumble sale, and we are up-cycling them in this costume. Here is the skirt from one drawn into a new waistband as part of the underskirt.
The top of the skirt involves a pink and purple silk swag, we are just playing around draping and pinning until something looks right. I really like it pinned up with the flower.
