Muslin City

📋 ✂ 👚WELL DEARS! TODAY IS TIME TO SKETCH FOR DRESSING. EVERYDAY WE CAN LEARN SOMETHING.

poppykettle

Fresh on maternity leave before bub#2 arrives earthside, in possession of a recently-received pattern order from Marfy (from their Evergreen #2 catalogue), AND with the urge to epically introvert and sew – I figured I’d use some of this time to pull together a whole bunch of muslins, ready for fitting on the other side when the time permits – that and I was just so keen to do some sewing!

This is probably all aided by the fact that I’ve now got a sewing room – and have finally unpacked and sorted my sewing supplies which have been sitting in boxes for some 4 years now. Having everything to hand, being able to properly catalogue my fabric and pattern stash, and not having to unpack and pack up each time I feel like sewing, is hopefully going to mean I can do some sewing throughout the next year.

Wish…

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Super Power CJS2020: Day 18

💁WELL LOVELIES, MAYBE YOU WILL LIKE THIS GENUINE AND POWERFUL WORK.

Mary's Creative Activities

Gwen Lafleur’s artistic super power is to understand products and how to use them.

I absolutely loved this lesson on creating a Paper Doll making it look ancient.  I learnt a lot from these techniques with what I had at home. I love how Gwen made her doll part of her journal.

My background for the dress was a Gelli Print, then added stencilling and some Distress Inks and Crayons.  The dolls, I worked with my Derwent pencils and I aged her with a bit of Matt Medium, touch of gold paint and other colours that I threw in!  I had so much fun with this lesson.

Thank you Gwen, I just adore your Paper Doll and making them.

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Procuration

👀👓 HI SISTERS! ISN’T THIS WONDERFUL ? WE CAN SEE ANYTHING WE WANT.

Désert Occidental

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Maintenant que la porte est close
Restons assise à la fenêtre
Quand l’ombre des nuages passe en coton
de noirs oiseaux tracent les liens au dessus des maisons.
Un moelleux de mousse vert sombre
colle aux pattes, à l’ardoise
Immobile, je les suis dans les airs, je voyage.
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Mirliton
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Un banc comme une crête
au milieu de la mer.
D’où l’on voit la galère et
le tous azimuts.
Pas besoin de fracas,
la vague en fait déjà.
Là où le temps trouve maison,
le poème a mille saisons.
~
Caroline D.
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Coronavirus and Mona Lisa

😷 OH MY SISTERS! I’M REALLY ASTONISHED.

Café culture addict

Is is time to panic yet? Miss Mona Lisa took her precautions…

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Covid 19 and Mona Lisa – copyright Florence Valerie Vitel 2020

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Vernissage at the Hyvinkää Art Museum

💁 HELLO DEARS. SOMETIMES A DRESS CAN BE ENOUGH.

Costume Sketches 101

🎩👒 👠👚 HI LOVELIES. LET’S CHECK A WAY TO SKETCH COSTUMES OR FASHION.

Across the Pond and Back Again

I remember a Costume prof telling me once that you didn’t have to be a great artist to be a great costume designer. You just needed to be able to represent the body and explain how you wanted the cloth to fall on it. Even so I still get a bit of an inferiority complex when it comes to comparing my costume renderings to the rest of the design community’s. So here are some tips on how to do a solid costume rendering.

1) Always start with the body. No matter how good your ability to represent clothing, if your proportions or angles are off in the body, it just won’t look right.

This first sketch does not have to take that long or be that detailed, it just needs to give you as the designer a solid foundation to go back to when layering the clothing on top. Also…

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Tree of Babel

🙋💖 WELL SISTERS, QUARANTINE IS BETTER WITH ART.

40/2020

🎨 WATCH AND FEEL. HELLO LOVELIES, SOMETIMES ART DOESN’T NEED EXPLANATIONS.

Lucy’s coloring book

New little stamp and matching watercolor 😉

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Procress

👭 HELLO BEAUTIES! I ALWAYS LOVE PHASES PICTURES, AND TODAY WE’VE GOT AN INTERESTING WORK MADE BY ‘SISTERS SU-PYO & MINGI’. THEY ARE A LOVELY DRAWING STORY. ENJOY!

drawing story

Beauty of procress. Not only the high quality of results are triumphant, those shorty glimpses of each process, steps, moments are essential parts of the beauty itself.

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Ilustradoras que aman las flores y la naturaleza (XX) : Bodil Jane

🌍🌎🌏 HELLO DEARS ! I LOVE ‘GLOBAL VILLAGE’. AN ILLUSTRATOR DUTCH WOMAN POSTED IN SPANISH AND NOW REBLOGGED IN ENGLISH.

creciendo entre flores

Bodil Jane es una ilustradora holandesa afincada en Ámsterdam.

  

http://www.bodiljane.com/

Ilustración: Bodil Jane

https://www.instagram.com/bodiljane/?hl=es

MªÁngeles Pozuelo

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