This project has been made possible by donors to the College of Fine Arts Fund for Excellence, the University of Arizona's School of Theatre Film & Television, and the individuals who have generously donated to the Medici Scholarship Foundation (specifically Ms. Robyn Kessler and Robyn and Jeff Timan) . Thank you for all your support!
Hello!
This past week, I had to take some time off to deal with some personal things, so I haven't been able to much.
I did think about display in the exhibition, however. The costumes themselves are complete works of art, and they all include some sort of headpiece. I think just placing them on top of the mannequins would do the whole piece a disservice, so I am currently exploring head creation...
This is one of the patterns I tried, and I think it is my favorite. (Paid) pattern can be found at https://dali-lomo.blogspot.com/ I am going to re-work the pattern so not only the head is smaller, but it will have less seamlines on it. I don't want the head to distract from the rest of the pieces.
So last Tuesday I was able to get some work done on the male cage top, and I originally created a time-lapsed video of my progress; it was a two and a half hour video that I condensed into fifteen minutes, and I watched it a few times and decided that it was super boring and that I'd try again on a day that I am actually doing something interesting to viewers... honestly it was just me stitching the cage. The following are some progress pictures of the cage (which I am currently burnt out on) and you can see how I've stitched it. I've since had to take out much of the stitching due to the fact that it was simply not sitting well on the body.
SO FRUSTRATING.
Anyway, yesterday we moved to the pants, and I have a few ideas on how to accomplish the balloon style pants, but we are going to try them out before I commit. I drafted a basic pant block using a method that my faculty adviser taught me (top secret!), and altered it in a way that makes sense to me.
I originally thought to add more shape all around, but the picture I am using seems to only balloon at the low hip and taper to the knees before becoming fitted at the bottom. I added 5" to the largest part and tapered it up and down to the knees. My patterns aren't really trued up, but we are going to go ahead with this mock up to see what I need to adjust or change, or if I have to just start over.
I have my mock-up cut out and ready to be stitched, so that's what we will be focusing on today.
Thank you for reading!