Decoration

Decoration

The decoration on our costumes is meant to look like petals blowing across the bodice from the right side down to spread across the net. We were each given different colours mine was a dark blue, so we had to mix our own paint to try and recreate the correct colour. I used the dynaflow silk paints and mixed a copen blue and ultramarine blue with a turquoise which has created a great blue which is the same colour as the swatch I was given.

I cut our petals from the spare net from the tutu. I used a template shaped like this;

I had to cut out 64 of these and then paint them by hand building up each layer. I didn’t paint the very centre.

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