The Featherstonehaughs Draw on the Sketchbooks of Egon Schiele

Jon found me some postcards about this, I would love to go and see this but it is in about a week and is 111 miles away.

Images of Costumes in the Show:

https://www.liveatlica.org/whats-on/the-featherstonehaughsegon-schiele

A clip from the performance:

Some of Egon Schiele's work:

Illustration 21st December 2012:

I have added this artist into my illustration portfolio because I think my drawing is quite similar to his. Very scratchy and messy but you can still see what I have drawn. I also like his work because his costumes drawings was turned into a stage play.

Quentin Blake

I listened to this a couple of days ago and it is a radio program where Quentin Blake is talking about music he enjoys and his life. He talks about how he began illustarting and he trained as a teacher at Downing College, Cambridge.

This is some of his work below, I want to create one of the costumes that look like Quentin Blakes drawings. A bit like this that I researched into at the beginning of the year.

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Other Pictures Quentin has done Another costume/ puppet that use an illustration to create it is Royal Opera House ballet version of Alice in Wonderland. The cat is created from John Tenniel's original illustrations from the book. source A Clip of the Cheshire Cat More I researched into about Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - The Royal Ballet Illustration: His style is very like mine, slightly childish, very messy and a bit scratchy.

Evaluation

For the project I wanted to create one or two costumes inspired by Roald Dahl, to get to making these costumes I wanted to follow steps costume designers in the industry follow. 

I started of with seven characters from various books by Roald Dahl. These included Mike Teavee, The Grand High Witch, Centipede, Giraffe, Mr Fox, Mrs Silver and Roly Poly Bird. I then did initial drawings and ideas of these. I reduced the group of costumes to four and research and experiment into these. Finding more out about the character I drew more designs and chose the two costumes I was going to make.

I chose Mr Fox from 'Fantastic Mr Fox and the Giraffe out of the book 'The Giraffe, The Pelly and Me'. I thoroughly researched into these characters, ways of making the costume, designs for the costumes, styles, Quentin Blake and much more. I also went to see different plays and helped with two at the theatre. This helped me realise what costumes are appropriate for children.

The making of the costumes went quite well with some hurdles, I had to find the best way to make the Giraffe neck with research and experimenting I made it work. Mr Fox change throughout the project because I read the'Phaidon Theatre Manual Costume and Make-up by Michael Holt' book and read about costume designers find costumes. I went and found a costume with this information because I felt I would have learnt more altering the jacket than making one from scratch because I have done this in the past.  

If I was going to redo the project I would have chosen to make other characters costumes to make and would

Final Pieces

Exhibition Spaces and Lincoln

A lot of the exhibitions had business card and postcards. I am going to make some postcards and use  some business cards from last year. Exhibitions have a theme running through them and are very simple. I'm going to make covers for the business card because they don't quite work for colours I'm using within the theme. 

The Second Mask Review

I have finished the second mask and this one is a lot better than the first, The ears stay in the right place and it doesn't look like a pig. The mask can be seen through and fits Ashley very well. The mask didn't need to loko like a cartoon as the fur would have covered that up anyway.

Final Exhibition