* Pictures taken with flash and without. I've lost my camera (thank you Barcelona) so I've been making do with a basic one which I can't seem to work out how to control.
As you know, I've been hard at work
re-designing and re-working pieces from the Men in Trees series. But sometimes a girl just needs a break. There is no reason however why breaks should be unproductive. For this reason, I subscribe to the school of "productive procrastination", whereby to alleviate the guilt of procrastinating, one puts their energies into creating something else, so that by the end of a period of procrastination, one has something to show for it.
This piece is a procrastination piece. It came about while I was planning a costume for a friend's upcoming Halloween Party. I was trying to work out an Augustus Caesar costume ensemble using pieces from my existing wardrobe, since cleaning up the Barcelona Incident has left me rather skint and I could not be bothered sewing up something new. I tried sketching a few styling ideas, but then one sketch gave way to another and, well...now you're looking at it. It's a far cry away from "Roman Emperor Chic", but I like the result.
Below I've included the initial sketches, a digital colour mock up I did to get an overall sense of the piece, and the near finished painted piece. The finished piece is done with black felt tip pen and metallic acrylic paint on cartridge.
Hope you like it.
S.
PS. The Augustus Caesar costume was never resolved. It turned out to be a Hawaiian themed pool party anyway.
