Practicum Work

A lot of people have been curious about what exactly I'm doing for the local theatre group I'm volunteer at. I can't really say much under till closing night.

I took some pictures of samples of different materials used in costume work. These are samples that my mentor Sherry Kinnear did for 'The Wizard of Oz,' these are sample works of part of Tin-man's outfit.

The materials used were insolation, craft foam, and flex glue.

These are samples of the different textures you can get for the flex glue.

March Break Madness 3

The next day, I did all the pleating on the hakama pants and it took a good long while to do. I'm glad I got that all done, so I can sew them all up.

Remember the shibori, here it is after the we add multiple layer a pearl gray to it. This is the first layer that we're putting on, the next layer is baby blue.

Here is me and Morgan working on the sleeves. I should mention that the collar and sleeves that were printed yesterday, are being steamed to seal the ink in.

March Break Madness 2

Friday Night, me and Morgan met up started printing and preparing on shibori for the next day.

Here's two of the two front pieces of the Winter's kimono. We attached the silk to some tubing. Then we took a few inches from the bottom and tied resist tape and rubber bands around so the bottom would stay white. After we attached resist string to the tubing and started to wrapped around the fabric. As we wrap, we push the silk up to tighten the string in order to create more of a texture.

After preparing the shibori, we started laying out the happi coat fabric for printing. We just did the collar and the sleeves.

Here are after looks of the print jobs; first layer we used the same orange as the primary colour, and the second layer we used dark burgundy red. We also added spots to create more texture. They're not quite finish, we're going to be add gold to give it an extra.

March Break Madness

During the my March Break, I started my volunteer work at my local theatre company. There's always something to do, never a dull moment. This months show I'm working on is 'Little Shop of Horrors'; it's a rock-musical with a man eating plant. I'm making epic plant costumes. I can't give any details till the play closes. It's very exciting work.