Proofs - Flemish Peasant

This gallery contains proofs of yet more images of Maura--an incredibly talented costumer (she MADE all these costumes!), as well as a wonderful model and fascinating person. This particular shoot involves her in yet another costume of her own design--this time, a Flemish peasant. We almost came to blows over this shoot before we started shooting, because I saw the costume and was thinking Bouguereau and Tuscany--mostly because I had a lot of grapes and grapevines around that could be used to build a set, and a sort of brownish backdrop that could be vaguely Italian sunset-ish...while Maura pointed out that it was a FLEMISH costume, NOT an Italian one. I told her that undoubtedly she was a Flemish maid visiting her frieds in Tuscany, maybe getting ready to help them crush some grapes or something, and while I'm pretty sure she didn't buy it, the set was already built, so what could she do? ;) Regardless of our artistic differences, we both agreed that she looked heavenly in this costume...and that the Victorian lamp draped with grape leaves and a cluster of grapes (held on with a hair clip, no less!) did admirable duty as a handy grapevine. (And Maura truly deserves a "Good Sport" award for not mentioning the cherries I threw into the basket at the last minute...because, well, she'd brought them with her, and they very nicely filled in a gap in the basket..and they looked artistic...even if not even *I* could come up with a good explanation for what this Flemish-maid-on-vacation-in-Tuscany-to-help-with-the-grape-harvest would be doing with CHERRIES in her basket, as well. :P If I'd been pressed, I would've repeated the advice that Mrs. Jones, my high school English teacher would give us, after telling us how NOT to write essays, "...BUT--if it WORKS--then USE it!" It worked. I used it. 'Nuff said. ;)) You can view more of her amazing costumes, at her website: http://www.suspiciouscloset.com These images are proofs only - batch processed and lightly retouched for web viewing, and are not meant to reflect a finished product in any way. Click on the thumbnails below to view the individual galleries and/or larger images.

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