Victorian Underwear

Whilst making the Alice in Wonderland costume, I decided to make the undergarments to go with it but I never got round to photographing them.  So here they are.
This corset really shaped my model and fitted her really well.
All garments are made from white cotton, and gold eyelets and fastening at the front.

Shakespeare

For our second project of the semester we had to design 2 make-ups and 2 costumes for 2 different Shakespeare characters.

My first Character is King Oberon from A Midsummer Night's Dream. We only had to make one of the two costumes, so for this one I only made the crown.  I'm really pleased with how this came out but I wish I had made the costume to complete the whole look.
I purchased the jewellery from a high street shop and applied the make-up myself.

 My second character is Beatrice from Much Ado about Nothing.  I decided to set my character in Medieval England when men played the female roles on the stage.  I made the whole costume for this character.  I feel that this costume went really well, and I'm really happy with how it turned out.
I purchased the wig from a popular costume shop in London, and applied the make-up myself.

Shakespearean Portrait

Our first Make-up and Costume brief of the university semester was to find a Shakespearean Portrait and re-create it. I chose a miniature of Lady Jane Grey to reproduce.

Original:

 My image:
When the original photo was taken I was not particularly pleased with how it came out as the lighting was completely different to the original portrait.  Once I managed to get hold of the images, I played about with the lighting on the image in Photoshop and managed to make it look a lot more like the original.  I'm very please with how it came out this time and I feel that it looks much better than the photo taken on the day.

FMP

I haven't been on here in a while because I've been working hard on my Final Major Project.

For this I decided to recreate the costumes for 2 characters from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. I wanted to go back to basics and read from the original book, rather than from the many adaptions that there have been.

I created for Alice and the Mad Hatter.

Catch up

Right, so back in December I promised you better photos for the Miss Worcester costume and I finally have them.

Tarot

Recently i have been working on our tarot project, we had to pick a tarot card and turn that into a costume using different ageing and distressing techniques. I had the tower costume.

The Witches

This week we have been working hard at the Malvern Festival Theatre doing the costumes and Make-up for their productions of 'The Witches'.

In the run up to Christmas we were busy working towards finishing the costumes and make-up designs.