Clare Tough

I recently dicovered British textiles designer Clare Tough. She is considered as a visionary in constructed textiles. Her collections are recognised by the combiation of oversized over the top shapes and stremlined silhouettes embellished with clever details.

 I love how she uses a variety of different knitting techniques to bring together and fuse wool yarn with other materials, heavy ones such as metal and chain, and also more light weight fabrics like georgette.

As a keen knitter myself I would love to have a go at creating some of my own variations on her designs.

Run Run as fast as you can, you can't catch me i'm the Gingerbread Man.....

I heard this song by Devlin and it just really hit a chord with me......
take a listen :)

 Devlin- Runaway

The human canvas.

So I got bored of drawing on paper and decided to try something different........

I got thinking about a film we had watched at Uni, 'The Pillow Book' using the idea of writing a story on the body I thought I would try using the body as a blank page.....

I had a look about and considered all the different ways the body can be drawn on, Body Paints, Mehndi, Tattoos.....

I had a go at a few different ways.....

I really enjoyed experimenting with body paints and mehndi.
I think I would like to explore using the body as a canvas again. :)