Little shadow, to the night will you follow me?

I now have my basic cape!  It's been cut and hemmed and now its time to lobster it up.  A success so far although I did realise after hemming it that I forgot to pre shrink my fabric, oh dear.  Hopefuly it wont be too much of a problem.

We've been doing a drawing project in the studio this week which has turned from being quite enjoyable to rather distressing.  I chose a very personal and difficult subject matter in hope of gaining some sort of benefit from it.  I thought it would be some sort of release and way of venting my emotion but in reality it has just made for a very unhappy week so far.  I'm hoping that once I'm finished it will have the desired effect but at the moment it's definately not.

Hallo Karen O

The aim:

Later on this month the 4th year illustrators are having a rock legends themed fundraiser for their degree show and I've decided to go as the one and only Karen O.  After much pondering over which one of her wonderful costumes to make I've finally settled on the one that she wore on stage at Glastonbury last year.  

Karen O is someone I've always had alot of admiration for - her style, music and general persona.  To sum it up I think she's rather amazing.

I bought some fabric today so I can get started but I've yet to do anything with it.  My costume obviously isn't going to be anywhere near as good as Christian Joy's (the wonderful designer who makes Karen's costumes) but I'm sure it will still be very fun to wear, not to mention dance in.  Maybe the lobster cape will become part of my everyday wear.

Christian Joy:

www.christianjoy.us