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| Queen Guinevere - from the BBC production of Merlin |
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| Angel Coulby as Guinevere |
I partly based my new Queen Guinevere doll on this photograph of Angel Coulby. I think she looks lovely. The gown is sophisticated but she still looks innocent and very pretty.
Usually Guinevere is my least favourite character in the Arthurian Cycle. She tends to come across as vain and shallow and completely unworthy of Arthur. Angel Coulby is different - she makes the character far more sympathetic and likeable and I've thoroughly enjoyed the series as a result..
The photograph is (I think) a little bit different to the others I based the earlier doll on and I'm not too sure about the result I've finished up with here. Portraiture is not one of my strong points - luckily for me neither Angel Coulby or anyone associated with the show are likely to see my efforts!
The doll is not the best I've made either. I'm afraid I rushed through her a little bit to get to the dress . . . .
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| Guinevere - Queen of Camelot |
And what a dress! I don't think I've ever seen a colour that is so gorgeous or a dress so flattering. Its just as well that I am not a teenager anymore. I would be designing a new wedding for myself based around this dress (I wrote about my tendency to do this in my Sulamith Wulfing post.) As an aside - red would not have been a strange colour for a wedding. I think I've mentioned before that the Victorians introduced the concept of the white wedding (for purity). Prior to that brides never wore the colour and centuries before the traditional shade was red with its connotations of fertility. (For that reason I decided to dress my character Saraid in red for her marriage to Rowallan in the book I'm trying to write. (So much to do, so little time!))
With all the other dresses I've made my scanner has reproduced them fairly accurately with regard to colour. This one unfortunately did not come out as well. The colours of the original are far more vibrant than anything I can reproduce - it must be the rich dark shades. As a result I've included two scans - the first is the result after I have 'auto corrected' the image in Microsoft Picture Manager. The second is the original scan.
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| Guinevere - Velvet Burgundy |
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| Guinevere - Velvet Burgundy |
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| Queen Guinevere - Sketch |
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| Queen Guinevere - Initial Sketch |
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| Guinevere - Velvet Burgundy Sketch |
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| Guinevere - alternate version of completed gown |
Queen Guinevere's blue dress can be found here
The original Guinevere paper doll can be found here
Guinevere Early Days can be found here
Guinevere Pretty in Pastels can be found here
Guinevere Almost a Queen can be found here
The original Morgana paper doll can be found here
Copyright Sharon Souter - not to be used for commercial purposes 
6 comments:
I've watched her in this show, and I think she's adorable. Love these dresses. You have a knack for making paper doll outfits that are beautiful.
Lovely, simply lovely.
Sumptuous! Not a word I would normally use, but it’s the first one that popped into my head. I love the rich colour of the gown, and the fact that I can almost feel the weight of the material. It would be lovely to wear something like this – make a nice change from jeans!
Love that dress!!
Her dress looks like a good glass of red Sharon, but that's not the reason I'm writing...I've finally found your Carlotta, I knew it was in the shed somewhere...I'm on my own at the mo, so it took me a while to move boxes, furniture, junk etc to get to it.
The frame is a little bit on the wonky side, I hope you won't mind (I don't think you will) but the print is perfect. I'll wrap it carefully over the weekend and post it on Monday x
I actually think both shades of burgundy look pretty amazing. So much talent, my friend.
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