Alice In Wonderland Hair Pieces

The following photographs are of some of the hairpieces I created for a Japanese themed Alice in Wonderland photoshoot.  Each of the pieces are made of beads, a deck of cards, ribbons, chopsticks which were all hot glued to an origami shape.
The process took a lot of time, most of it spent cursing at the paper as I tried to get to the cardstock paper fold properly without ripping. My main reasoning for using cardstock paper rather than origami paper was one of convenience and durability, especially since these pieces were going to be pinned into hair and would have to stay there for a couple of hours.
For more information on origami please check out the following link, Origami Resource Center.

Mad March's hair piece made up of a broken silver watch face, playboy bunny key and various tea and cup charms.

The Door Mouses Hair piece. This was the first of the hair pieces and therefore the most difficult to make. The color selection was based off of fabric used for the Door Mouse's kimono. The charms chosen where all heart shaped.

The white rabbit hairpiece is by far one of my projects and is made up of a house of cards, a single antique looking watch face, a key and a few rose shaped brass beads.

British Columbia and its' animal residents.

These sketches are a continuation of my previous post. I finally settled on this style which relied more on cross hatching and varying lines to express shading rather than painting shades in with india ink, which I found took away from a few of my spreads. I still have a few more sketches to draw but here are the first few.
Enjoy!

Oh look! A pretty blue jay

Blue jay's nest

Some random mountains

Commission made of sunflowers and wildlife

The images below are ink pieces that I've drafted for a book commissioned by a fellow co-worker. Once I've settled on a definite style the intent is to lay them over the background photos for visual interest and to carry on the mountain British Columbia/Alberta theme throughout the entire book. The pieces were painted with india ink and were refined with my handy collection of pigment liners.

-Enjoy!

I've always wanted to draw an elk however when it actually comes down to it they've got bizarre proportions. I mean who has  antlers that take up half your body!

Mixed emotions about this piece. I love the treatment on the stem however when it came to the flower itself, the petals have a very fluid appearance next to the core, which seems too detailed considered the rest of the flower's appearance.

I love this piece simply because I was tired and decided just to go wild.

Same deal as the one above.