L'enfant et les sortileges

I'd designed some costumes for the Tempest before this project. The Masque Goddesses- Juno, Ceres etc were all on stilts. This inspired my design for Mama too. I believe she's been portrayed as a giant pair of legs before so this triggered the idea to make her abnormally tall.

I wanted her apron and the bottom of her dress to look like her son had scribbled and splattered paint all over them, just like he's scribbled all over the rest of the characters.

I found this lolly and the jelly beans after finding the artwork of Hundertwasser- his trees reminded me of lollies.

I love how this lolly pop swirls around, almost like a scribble.

The Arm Chair is a giant puppet that comes alive. He features scribbles for eyes and his mouth comes from under the cushion.

This is the clock. His pendulum is a lolly to fit in with my candy theme.

The main body of this costume would consist of fabric hanging from the character's shoulders so that they weren't constricted by a bulky shape.

The Frog was inspired by the artwork of Hundertwasser, and in particular his painting "Tender Dinghy" (shown below).

Frog is a puppet, featuring scribbles.

Fire was designed to look like some sort of Chinese Dragon. I think if I redesigned this piece I'd design him to look a little bit more like the other characters.

Cinder is covered in wispy smoky scribbles.

This costume would be a lot of fun to make- just think of all the gorgeous cobweb-like textukres you could make.

This was a sample for Cinder made from metallic voile.

Before I learnt about hot air guns I just used tea lights to melt through fabrics.

Melted and bleached fabrics with curls of red seed beads.

I wanted the Princess's hair to be one big hair piece that stuck out in those curls- perhaps it would have been more fun to have made her hair even more scribbly.

The Princess is a character, from one of the boy's storybooks, that comes to life.

More crayon doodles, bleached fabrics and some quilted silk painting.

I love the idea of having a scribbly child's drawing of a sheep on the shepherdess's dress. Seeing as I used crayons in the designs it would have been fun to experiment with batik.

The Shepherds and Shepherdesses were characters on the little boy's wall paper that came to life.

For the Dragonfly I was primarily interested in his cloak/wings. See the sample below.

I thought about how I could make a scribbly piece that was also diaphanous. Here I've tried sewing "scribbles" of yarn onto the reverse of some blue organza.

Moth was one of my favourite designs. I imagined her to be covered in soft Rennie Mackintosh style scribbly roses.

I liked the idea that she looked like a cocoon when her wings were folded.

As I loved the above costume design so much I decided to experiment with making my very first art doll, using the design as inspiration. As you can see, I did change her a little from the original design. I wanted to experiment with Queen Amidala hair pieces!