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While the style and the pose owe more than a little to Dior and the New Look, the medium would cause them to balk. Constructed from that weird thin styrofoam that is frequently found in electronics shipments, the strange materials…
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Sorry, that title was really a stretch. It was barely even a pun. But lately I’ve been playing a little bit with bookbinding. I always carry little notebooks and have a lady b***r for paper, so it’s a natural progression….
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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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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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