I am toiling away at this commission and I am at something of a loss. It's those damned men's hose again, I swear they are my bane. I have the foot and leg, right to the thigh fitting beautifully. It's his behind I am having trouble with. The source of inspiration for this is "Adoration of the Magi" by Botticelli: (close up)http://www.wga.hu/art/b/botticel/21/21adorat.jpg (full length detail) http://www.wga.hu/art/b/botticel/21/20adorat.jpg Which is dated to 1465-67, putting it right at the cusp before connected hose. Contemporary art shows the behind mostly covered save for a small gap right were he would sit, and of course the front is mostly open. The back should look like this: http://home.earthlink.net/~lizjones429/francesco-heraclius-det3.JPG (Victory of Heracleus 1452-66) and the front: http://home.earthlink.net/~lizjones429/crivelli-st-roch-wallace.jpg (Saint Roch, probably 1450) As long as he is standing, I have it looking exactly right. It's when he sits that the problem becomes apparent - there is just no seat space. Yet there is no evidence of the typical saggy bum - I'm not getting it. Best I can figure is to cut back the back of the hose to the underside of his behind curving up to the hip then add in a curved section, a la http://home.earthlink.net/~lizjones429/hose-farsetto-shop.JPG (Castle Challant, Issogne, 1489-1502)
Problem is, the client is rather far away now, I have to do this by educated guess. I don't have the luxury of making him stand still while I stab him with pins for hours on end. Anyone out there done something like this that can give me some helpful hints on construction? The prototypes are made of linen with a 3% lycra stretch, the "good" ones will be made of a light wool. hopefully they react largely the same to the pattern and I won't have to redraft a great deal to account for differences in stretch. Kathy Ermine, a lion rampant tail nowed gules charged on the shoulder with a rose Or barbed, seeded, slipped and leaved vert(Fieldless) On a rose Or barbed vert a lion's head erased gules. Its never too late to be who you might have been. -George Eliot Tosach eólais imchomarc. - Questioning is the beginning of knowledge. http://www.sengoidelc.com/node/131 _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
