Beasts Least Seen, prototypes

Not feeling too creative, except when talking about Gary Busey, or limping legs, or scratching out comics at work with eyes look in different directions.

Feeling that I should be doing more, but not certain to what it is I should be doing. Not sure what to do next with Beasts Least Seen, or how we're going to put our app together. Would feel better if we had a gallery, or somewhere wanting our work.

Passing the time drawing on a banana at work, propped it up on a mug facing my colleague with a speech bubble "i'm watching you", my colleague and I agreed the banana would probably drive a van and offer kids candy.

bonnet

a quick bonnet experiment. I had an idea for a pattern, and wanted to see if it's work.

yeti bib

A quick prototype of one of the BLS sketches.
THe nipples are just sewn fabric, but would be cast latex in the future


It's a play on a tuxedo styled bib.
Materials: white cotton fabric for bib and nipples, black stretch poly for the waist tie, grosgrain ribbon and brown suri fleece (from Grace Jones)

Head dress

Beasts Least Seen: Head dress
Lace, toppers, madonna rounds, beading/pearling, hair, yeti parts, nipples, tongues, feet, claws/nails/talons

Veil

Beasts Least Seen: Veil
Hair, deer feet, binding, embroidery, pompoms, beading

breastplate

Beasts least seen: breastplate
Chain, patent, hair, string, yeti parts.

Collar/neck piece

Beasts least seen: Collar/neck piece
Mixture of yeti hair en masse, thin chain, fabric strips, pompoms, claws

Cape/mantle

Beasts Least Seen: cape/mantle
Eyeball covered capelet. Hand sewn detailing, full coverage of eyeballs (cast resin), interior lined with shiny/lurex/patent fabric. Large bow tie front.

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!1!

Blitzing on caffeine and custardy yoyo.......caro and I now have a new focus for the Yeti project. and I can't wait to get a sewing and a making!

yeti yeti

Initially working towards 10 distinct Yeti creatures....so far have 8. These are the first step up from blue biro on scrap paper. Working on some 3D sewn experimentation with a few, to make some things a bit clearer and see how materials respond/react.
Obsessed with Pom-pom veils!

Yeti play

Yeti hand, 2010, acrylic felt, raw suri fleece, cotton glove, florist wire.
Having a quick play with materials. It's all part of a proposal for an exhibition collaborating with Caroline McCurdy 'Beasts Least Seen'.





Most of my sketches have these creatures with long elongated fingers and limbs, so i had a quick play, modded a glove, sewed on some talons and got to see how suri fleece and the glue gun mix......pretty much as I hoped they would.