Final Headpieces/ Accessories

As I am wanting to have something in the hair for my final piece, you can see below from the images what I had found to work with. 

It started with small pearls and jewels, as when looking at portraits from that time and Queen Elizabeths Portraits they where covered in beautiful jeeps and pearls. I was give some beautiful pins from my partner mother Debbie! 

They are royal looking and beautiful they fit with any design and I was going to actually have the blue gem with gold around it in my final piece but I though with the boats it would just be too much.

As to the boat idea it started from my finding this amazing boat at a flee market in Lewis, West Sussex; Its huge I think I was just too excited about the idea of it being a head piece and actually realised it wouldn't fin on my head and I didn't have enough hair to cover it! but I will have to use it in another project as My stepdad made it so it would fit on someone head… if they had enough hair!

The cap stuck to the bottom was made out of a plastic toy army hat! made me laugh! 

As I was getting worried about the size of the first ship I found I went on the hunt for a smaller version; Luckily there is a store in West Quay shopping centre in Southampton called Nauticella, that should small boats I would just need to but it on something to hold them to the head.

 I thought that I will try and create a small scene in the hair with the smaller boats. I didn't want them to be the natural colour so got some white spay and sprayed them white and attached them to a headband I had with glue, then I just got some hair given to me by Helen and rapped it around the band so it would hide the colour and match my his so it was easier to blend in.

As my idea as seemed from the Armarda Portrait, ?i wanted to include the St. Georges flag. So I painted this on the side of the ships and on one of the sails. 

The feathers where to create a wave effect and the influence came from the portraits colours in the painting Elizabeth had behind her. They are such rich colours, and I thing they will work perfectly with the white ships. 

As to the 'rats' I made these out of tights-socks and wadding from Fabric Land, I find this much better than using tissue as you can mould it better to the shape you require. I then got brown hair nets and rapped them round so it hinds the flesh colour more and it also help for the grip of the        booby pins that need to go in it to pin it to the hair.

To complete my full look I have made a ruffle out of curtain tape as it does give the authentic effect of the Elizabethan era! Plus I just love the ruffle!