Making my Deer moulds into hats!

I've been interested for a while of turning my deer casks into hats, or head piecing as I've been looking alto at Isabella blow and Philip Treacy.

I love Isabella blows work with the lobster and the deer antler type head pieces so I thought it would be interesting if i did my own.


Isabella Blow




Isabella Blow



Isbella Blow



So to do this, i asked my friend Arlene if she would model for me in our preliminary photographs, just so I could get an idea of what they would look like.

We spent the afternoon doing her hair, backcombing it and pining it so the hair pieces would stick and then giving her very dark and sultry makeup.
I chose the head pieces I wanted to use in the bright colors like grey, pink , black and white and directed her how to pose. I then placed the head pieces in her hair and photographed them with a black background.I didn't have a lightbox so I tried to change the lighting by getting a desk lamp and bringing it from behind and in front of the corner we were working on.It seemed to work well for what i was going for.