Dressing and undressing

I spent last weekend making my desk area a more attractive space to work, after reading this article. So this weekend I had time to work on some new drawings I've been wanted to start.

 

 

Who needs a light box when you have a window : )

 

The drawings are about clothing and dressing and undressing. I wanted to try out ways of representing fabrics in my drawings. And I've been wanting to introduce more collage to my work for a while. My clothes are very colourful and often patterned too so they make an enjoyable subject for me.

 

 

Some of my favourite things to wear.

I'm really enjoying colourful clothes at the moment.

A grey velvet 90s dress

Daisy face jewels

Flowery trousers

Glitter nail varnish

50s pink capri trousers

Pink pencil skirt

Patterned maxi dress which I made

Penknife on a string

Pink tie-dye crop top

Jeremy's Mum's glass bangles

Grey crop top that I covered in flowers

Silver socks

70s green floral waistcoat.



Flower Power

I haven't been around much lately.

There hasn't been that much crafting or drawing going on.

It's a bit of a strange time, not in a bad way.

I did however, manage to make this great Tshirt to wear for going out dancing. I bought and old Tshirt from a charity shop, cropped it, and sewed lots of flowers on it. The flowers are a mix of stiff polyester, satin and cotton. I also used vintage glass beads in the centre of each flower.

I hope you guys are doing good and well. My apologies if I haven't stopped by your blog lately. I hope your summers are going nicely. I won't stop raining here in London! 

Glitz Vans

I made spangle sparkle glitsy trainers! There's pencils, a frog, scissors, trainers and cola bottles on these babies.

Maxi dress

We're on our summer holiday in southern Spain. It's hot! Remember, I made a maxi dress? I thought I'd share pictures of how it looks. It's crazy, colourful stripes. I used an old 70s skirt pattern for the bottom part and made up the shape for the top part. It has three flower buttons up the back with elastic hooks. I'm pretty pleased with it. I also made some cotton trousers which I'll try and show too, although, Daniel isn't to pleased with having to be my photographer (I made him do two different photoshoots for the dress! hehe). At this rate I might actually get to be one of those people who make all their own clothes!

She loves pink and yellow

So I'm enjoying this new tshirt love of mine. I've actually been drawing tshirts in my sketchbooks for the last year or two and now I'm putting those ideas into stitch, so to speak. After I showed last weeks tshirts I got a lovely request to make a kids sized heart tshirt for a little girl. I was stitching the heart on my underground commute this morning and as the business men watched I hoped it was bringing a little cheer to their morning.