I seem to have lost a lot of my drawing skills so I cropped and printed the b&w image as big as it would go onto A4, put it on a light box and traced through onto calico using black fabric paint. I wanted something that wasn't to accurate so just made marks to follow the dark bits I could see underneath. Once I had that I painted in in bronze fabric paint with turquoise bits, and then went over highlighting some in white, and then touching up some of the black detail. While the paint was dry, I threw fine bronze glitter over the top lightly...

I was thinking of you, and that skirt we dicussed with star shaped cut outs...I can see these working as appliques on corsetry, or on a swing jacket, especially running down sleeves with other detail of the patterns from the larger image used as trim.

Will do the same in a much larger scale with the dragons from Bank station as they'd look great on a cassock type long line coat

The thing is, a lot of the clothes will be made for specific people. Even though they are being created as art pieces, I want them to have a life in the world. After all, no point in putting in all that work for garments that are just going to hang in my closet. So the Bank Cassock is for my sometime compatriot on the tubewhore adventure midnightxpress who's marvellously tall at 6'7", and can totally carry off a cassock...I can make technically advanced clothes, so tabards don't excite me. Also, where do you wear a tabard? Cassocks might take a little natural flamboyance to wear, but they are a useful garment to wear.

Likewise, the embroidered and applique waistcoats using the Finsbury Park balloons have a wearer in mind. He has nearly two dozen of my waistcoats already, including ones with dinosaurs, quilted mushrooms, and lime greeen appliqued frogs, so I know he can wear something a bit showman, a bit 19th century circus ringmaster...