While She Sleeps Band Patch

Just to practise my textiles skills, I made a custom 'While She Sleeps' band patch to blend in with the back of a denim jacket. I used several techniques such as broken needle, reverse appliqué and appliqué using bondaweb which I improvised with no design as I went along. Overall, I am very happy with the outcome as my first attempt at band merchandise. My boyfriend loves wearing it :) These are some pictures of the process and the final product...

Beauty and the Beast Costumes

For my colleges production of Beauty and the Beast this year, I designed the costumes for the main characters of Lumiere, Cogsworth and Babette. I also constructed the textiles elements mainly from upcycling old garments, and with an extremely tight budget...

Costume Design Board:

 Babette:

For Babette, the feather duster's costume, I merged the idea of traditional Victorian maid and modern French romance/attraction, so the garment included tempting cuts and hemlines but with traditional trims of frills and inclusion of an apron, etc... As she is quite a sexual, seductive character, I used quite a provocative pleather fabric for the skirt with a thigh-high slit. As the enchanted objects have to transform back to their original human state, I created a Velcroed waist belt of feather boas which sat of her hip as this is where the actresses main movement came from in characterisation.

Lumiere:

After designing Lumiere's costume for the suave man he is, I was able to create the god suit-like garment, one of my favourite aspects being that the actor would be able to use their hands still as a lot of other costume designs for this character don't allow. I created flame ruffles in the cuffs but decided to have the main frame of the candelabra going across the shoulders. However, there were a lot  technical difficulties rigging this up and I ended up deciding to have it lower down on the back. The transformable parts of this costume were the candles.

Cogsworth:

 Originally, I was set to play Cogsworth in this production but I had to pull out, so I initially started designing a costume for myself and my characterisation of the enchanted object. But when someone else took over my role, I had to rethink aspects of the design. Without using a sandwich-board-like structure, I tried to create the shape of a clock, using a grandfather clock as inspiration with the pendulum the length of the body and face as the actual clock. In the transformation, the entire bodice comes off, head pieces and key for back... This was a more quirky costumes with elements such as clock handles as a moustache.

Newest Art piece...

Inspired by my previous piece, I focused more on a lone eye and created this... I hope you like it... :)

My Latest Painting Journey...

These are the pictures documenting my recent A3 painting journey... It started of as a pencil drawing where I vented the way I felt at the time onto a blank page but I felt colour would portray it better so I used a mixture of mediums including Faber Castell artist pitt brush pens (indian ink) and watercolour paints to pour more emotion into it... I particularly liked the eye on it's own surrounded by pencil lines earlier on in the process because it really stood out of the page (almost a 3D effect) so I have started work on another piece branching out from this..

Loui Jover Inspired Pieces

 These are some of my responses to artist Loui Jover, he used pages of vintage books as backgrounds but I have used newspaper as I didn't have the heart to tear up books... I have used inks like him but have also added in some water colours.

Kerry Ellis Portrait Drawing

           












                           
At long last, I have done a sketch of my idol Kerry Ellis :D I hope you like it, I was a bit out of practice but I finally got her AMAZING new album which inspired me :')

http://www.kerryellis.com/

My Latest Photography

Just a few tasters of my latest nature photography, you can check out more on my Flickr...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/theatrick/