GALLERY
JULIE WEISS These drawings are costume sketches. They belong to the actor. They represent their character as wearable notes and changeable thoughts. They began with the script and the director. Sometimes they were drawn on napkins, car mist or through other peoples’ memories. Some fabric has yet to be cut. Some zippers yet to be zipped. Some sketches already part of the story. The director will continue to direct. The actor will discover. Research will be re-researched. New dialogue will re-describe. The camera will land. The focus will not be on the golden shoes absent in the “close ups.” Odds are, I will succumb to death by asphyxiation due to Pink Pearl eraser dust. But it is the curiosity of choice that will lead to longevity of imagination. Sharing the tale. Knotting the knot. And just one more thing… We are a community of different voices, different styles that have the responsibility of delivering a costume that will clothe the actor in a world that now has left the sketch on a table of choices that will be missed until the next time. My sketches will remain rough until they are turned over where there hopefully will be illustrations of darts, seams and hemlines for the reality to take shape.
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The Costume Designer Winter 2011
–Julie Weiss PROJECTS: Top, left-right: Frida, American Beauty, The Missing Bottom, left-right: Frida, Twelve Monkeys, Bobby Sketches courtesy of Julie Weiss & Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
MATERIALS: Anything within reach: chalk, white-out, Winsor & Newton #6 & #7 brushes, eyeliner, pastels, oil pastels, Conte crayons, guache, swatches, #80 Bainbridge board, brown paper, matte board, velum, Winsor & Newton dried-up paints, Q-tips, Prisma colors, charcoal sticks, Sennelier oil pastels, Pink Pearl erasers, Dixon Ticonderoga pencils, watercolor marker brushes. Winter 2011 The Costume Designer
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