T-minus 52 days until Halloween

Hello readers,

It's that time of year again: time to draft Halloween costumes!!! 52 days until Halloween and I've already accomplished the following:
1) Sketch out ideas-Maleficent, Snow White's Evil Queen and Ursula.
2) Shop for second hand prom dresses to create costume- any full skirted dress is perfect for Halloween. I bought three dresses this year and all were under $10 per dress.
3) Start cutting and get to sewing.

Before I blog about my costume for this year though, I'd like to post pictures of my dresses from last year and the year before.


2012 Halloween (re-post with additional information)

Final look for my dress. Materials: Red dress, red tulle for under dress and sparkly tulle for on top of skirt. Ribbon, red and green, for the belt, flower and accents around the neck.

Hair and makeup. Materials: foam cone for under the hair, secured with bobby pins and rubber bands. Side braids, which could be braided around wire or pipe cleaner and secured to base of cone. Christmas decorations for head decor. Makeup- highlighted eyebrows, significant cat eye, red lipstick and a Who-nose.

Front office staff at my internship placement site, Dana Middle School: (left to right) Rudolph, Cindy Lou Who, The Grinch, me and another reindeer.

2013 Halloween

Started with a red dress, floor length.

Removed underskirt and tulle from red dress and began attaching to a black dress (see below)

Black dress was cut down the middle and sewed on an angle. Red dress was then cut, cinched and sewed into the straps of the black dress to make sleeves. Newspaper was crumpled and added to give "puffy" appearance.

White tulle was bundled and sewn into the collar.

Checker patterned material was then added to the front and layered on the fringe of the dress.

Queen of Hearts and Alice.

Down the rabbit hole...

In progress Alice...2014

New Art. New Year. Same me.

Wondering Alice #1

Grayscale Alice #1

Copyright 2013

This is Halloween 2013

Painting Again

Hello readers,
I've been swamped with homework, reading, work and other things that I haven't had the time to post anything new. Alas, I have some things to share.

We had "Tutor"ween at my work this past October where we had goodies and snacks for the high school students I tutor at work. They thought I was being comical with my play on words and encouragement of dressing up. I was and hoped they would follow, but only two bought in.

Anyways, I had the Halloween bug and decided to paint a couple of t-shirts as costume choices. I plan to do the same for Christmas. Photos of Christmas themed shirts coming soon. :)

-Becky

Queen of Hearts T-shirt (front)

Queen of Hearts T-shirt (back)

Jack the Pumpkin King T-shirt (main image)

Pumpkin T-shirt

Down the Rabbit Hole

This past March, my family and friend attended the midnight premiere of Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland.

To commemorate the event (and as a surprise to all the girls in our large party), I made crowns for all...10 total.

I purchased precut foam crown, glittered heart stickets, and sticky red and black felt at Michaels. I then cut extra hearts, diamonds and spades from the felt and decorated the crowns as can be seen below.

Starting my sister's crown. She's the Alice in Wonderland enthusiast, so she got a white crown instead of silver.

One of the ten crowns created.

My friend Kasey's crown. She loves pink and recieved an all pink and white "Queen of Hearts" crown.

My crown.

My friends and I at the premiere.

My sister and I after the movie.

Please look forward to a post on Easter crafts that I'll be doing with my 20 month old cousin come this Sunday.

Thanks for reading.

-Becky

Creative Projects in the works...

July 31st.

Monkey Panels
Currently working on a series of three 8x10 canvas panels for a friend's baby room.
There isn't a particular theme for the room, however I am working with green, palm tree fabric with monkey characters all around. I'll be creating the background of the panels myself and enlarging the monkeys from the fabric to be painted on last.

Bathroom Art

I am also in the process of creating a painting for my friend's bathroom. The color scheme is black, white and red. I'm working with a particular flower and will be coming up with sketches for that soon.

At Home Projects

A friend made some great comments about the "Alice in Wonderland" drawing I did for my sister some time ago and mentioned that with the new Tim Burton Alice in Wonderland coming out, it might be popular to do similar drawings and sell them. If anyone is interested in the drawing I did for my sister and would like a poster copy, please email me. I'll be posting some more sketches soon.

If you have a special art project in mind that you would like achieved, please contact me by email.

Thanks.

World of Wonder

Last year I finished an Alice in Wonderland mural for my sister. This piece started out as just a picture of Alice sitting at a table top with chair in background. It progressed into a finished product when I knew my sister would be leaving to do a Disney Internship last year. I added the remainder of the table, the Mad Hatter, March Hare and background within the last weeks prior to her departure. Here is the final product:

I used Berol colored pencils and a thin Sharpie marker to do the fine ink work.

Also pictured was a fold out card I created for my sister while she was away in Florida. Again, Alice in Wonderland (little there to hint what her favorite Disney film is). I drew the movie caricatures in 2004 during my 2D design class when I was coming up with ideas for a book. This card has quotes and actual pictures of me, my sister and our friend at their good bye dinner prior to their leave for Florida. We're Wonderland queens.

Have a good week everyone. Thanks again for checking in. Please leave comments.
Sincerely,
Becky