Showing posts with label wearable art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wearable art. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Atelier Update + Incredibly Super Belated Halloween Post

Wait, it's December already? When did this happen?

 Atelier went amazingly well. It was a bit stressful, true, but nothing major went wrong. I was very lucky to have some awesome people to model for me at the last minute. When I do another wearable art show, I'll have to remember to have my models lined up months and months in advance.

Here's a photo one of my classmates took (or found to give to me) of my second piece at Art Central.



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 In other news, I haven't shown off my Halloween costumes on here yet. Halloween, of course, is my absolute favourite holiday. This year I decided to be incredibly ambitious and make two costumes: one for a party, and the other for a drag show.

Here's a sketch. I drew it after spending hours drawing fashion figures, which is why the legs are so long and deformed.



I'd never made digitigrade legs before, with the padding to simulate a leg that bends the opposite way to our own, the way that certain animals' legs do. It was an exciting challenge - exactly how I like my Halloween costumes. *grins* The costumes turned out great. There are a couple things that I need to fix - there's a slight gap between the pant leg and the shoes where the fabric doesn't go down far enough, but for my first attempt at making something like this, I'm pretty darn proud of myself. And I ended up winning a costume contest, too, which was awesome.





Both the above photos were taken by the lovely Cheri. And here is the werewolf costume in action, because costumes in action are always more exciting.

Saturday, October 29, 2011

Costumes and Wearable Art


I was fortunate enough to see Glenbow Museum's exhibit of movie costumes last September. I went with Cheri Pintrix, from the Vintage Lesbian Project, and it was quite a nice show. I expected it to be a bit larger - it was only one room, with the costumes on manequins all around the edges and a few in the middle. But still, it was impressive to be able to see the costumes close up, and in detail, which you can never do in movies. The research and attention to detail in these garments was really quite impressive, including the undergarments which you never actually see in the movies at all.


The only other issue I had with it - other than the small size of the show - was that I wasn't allowed to touch anything. I really had to hold myself back! I'm terrible in museums that way. I want to touch everything.

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In more exiting news, the wearable art class that I'm a part of is putting on a show! It's called Atelier, after the French word for 'workshop,' and is happening this Thursday at Art Central in Calgary. Did I mention it's free? It is. We've been working like crazy making really amazing pieces of wearable art for the show, and I'm super excited.

I'm also going to be on Breakfast TV this Tuesday promoting the show. Eep! I've never been on tv before, so it should be an exciting experience! I shall do my best to write more about that after it happens. Hopefully I don't get too nervous and make a fool of myself. *crosses fingers*