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While a minimal, bias-cut gown is the hardest to wear, it’s the easiest to draw. A little cut-paper detail at the bottom is sculptural but still understated.
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This one is all about the veil- as sometimes it should be. Pearls of various sizes and shades were sewn to the tulle. Everything else is secondary.
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Rocking the fancy dress and baseball cap YEARS before J Crew started doing it… I was in second grade, and all I wanted for Christmas was the black velvet dress with white chiffon sleeves. Ok, that’s not true, I probably…
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The punched flowers I used on the skirt have been crushed beyond recognition- but they’re still perfect for sewing to this watercolor sketch.
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So obviously I’m on a bit of a lace kick. I’m really liking incorporating appliques into the sketches- the shift in scale takes them from a minuscule, ditzy detail to a big, almost sculptural element. In shape and thematically, this…
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Anyone who knows me knows I have a thing for glitter. If it sparkles, I can’t get enough of it- which is good, because if you use glitter for anything, you NEVER will get rid of it, and that’s a…
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For this sketch, I relinquished control and let the paper tell me what it wanted to do- after drawing the face and body (and losing interest around the hands, you might notice), I sat down with some scraps of paper…
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Although in my youth, I sported British flags on the 4th of July to protest those traitors to the crown that let us down the path to not being English (I really wanted a cool accent), I have now come to…
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Well, today marks the 1-year countdown- or as Nick very sweetly put it in a text from China this morning, our “one year pre-anniversary-” to our wedding. When I think about how fast the past 4 months have evaporated, I…
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