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‘Sphinx Eyes’ Kit from Revlon’s 1962 Cleopatra collection

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Happy Halloween 🎃🕷 #scarecrow

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Such a beaut Autumn Day 🍃🍂

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Primary textile drawing.

Sketches from my research images of Donegal. The first sketch is in watercolour and the second in pro marker. 

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Sketches at Valley Park, Co.Antrim

Again I have been sketching from the landscape for colour and texture to influence my textiles.

I have also been looking a lot at Celtic Knots and shapes for this project (more imagery to follow). So I though I would start working my landscapes from my textile drawings into some of these key shapes. I concentrated on focused ares from my imagery of the valley park and worked them into circles. I love the overall look and I know these shapes of colour will be integral to my final textiles. Need to start getting them worked out on fabric!

I have been extremely inspired by Ireland and the landscapes as an artist and I am proud to live somewhere so beautiful. I really want this to come through in my textiles.

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Sketches produced in textile drawing sessions. 

In textile drawing we were challenged to produce a textile drawing from our own imagery in a different style. Numerous image bundles were passed around that focused on different areas/ mediums/ ways of drawing-  colour, pattern, monochrome etc.

Above is an image of the pattern work in progress and a final image of what I produced for the colour challenge.

I took my image of Tullymore Forest park and  took the colour from my blood moon sketches. This design took around 40 minutes and is all done in pastel. I love the way it turned out and the colours are perfect for the character of Aoife (evil stepmother, who turns the children into swans).

I plan to go into my character development and breakdowns a little bit later when I have more art work to share for them. 

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Pretty skies this evening on the way home from uni 😍

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As a good starting point for my costume design I like to imagine my characters faces/ profiles. I base their poses of their traits from the text or the choreography the charter is normally given!

Obviously this is a completely unrealistic luxury and normally costume are given actors/ performers who look NOTHING like the descriptions in the text.

Eventually I will be making for two of the six characters I design for and will have to source some Irish dancers that I can make look like my imagination.

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The Cast of Aladdin Before and After Costumes 

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Primary photography of Donegal. Providing me with the PERFECT colour scheme and starting point for my textile drawing for The Children of Lir project I’m working on this year.

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