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Fragments of Alba - how they came to be
Posted by Penelope O'Gara on February 13, 2022 |
Rumour has it that some folks are interested in how inspiration strikes and a collection develops...
In this case, I was intent upon creating a group of burlesque-inspired figures and had got as far as trawling Pinterest for pictures to form a mood-board when I began taking a correspodence course with the fabulous Johanna of The Pale Rook. An early exercise was taking a sheet of tissue paper, subjecting it to whatever folds, twists and pinches came to mind and see what it suggested.....Every last one of my experiments looked like a Victorian lady :
