'United in love for all eternity...'

As promised some images of my final pieces from the Swan Lake project.

'The very idea of a faithful love...'

Odette is an enchanted princess under a spell of the evil sorcerer Von Rothbart; she has been transformed into a swan by day and can only regain her human form at night. She has many companions under the same spell, who have made her their queen, hence her title "The Swan Queen."

As a side project from the ballet inspired coret I look in detail at the famous ballet 'Swan Lake' and allowed it to influence a minor project.

The brief was to create a sketchbook and a final piece exploring a theme of my choice and developing a brief from a previous fine art lesson.

I chose to develop a brief where I was to use cardoard a base and then manipulate it paint it rip it, add to it to create a piece of art work.

So I began creating sketchbook pages, developing a colour palette and then finally creating 3 final pieces on a small scale (I will add photographs of my final pieces when I can)

'Every Prince has got to have his Swan...'

My final piece for the corset project! And I love it!

Made purposefully not to be worn but to be mounted, as if it was part of a genuine ballet costume put on display.

I decided to combine various aspects of the two samples I blogged about on a previous post. I used the embellisher to attach a fine white silk to a calico base which gave a beautiful feminine, delicate look to it. I then used the straight stitch on the sewing machine to mark out various lines, trapping threads between the calico/silk and a third layer of fabric.

I then followed the rest of the process before constructing the final corset and mounting it.