One of the projects I have been working on lately is this lily pad piece. I recorded a frame every time I added a piece of fabric. It is a rather tedious process. This piece is still in progress with many more details still needed ...... and there will be a frog in there somewhere since the title is "Frog Heaven"
Friday, August 26, 2011
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Labor of Love
Here is a recently finished piece. I know these darling children, so the pleasure of working on this fabric collage was doubled. I tried to capture their joyful smiles
I had the most fun with the girl's hair. I used several different fabrics to explore the play of light on her hair. If you look closely, you will see 6 individual fabrics just on the hair. You can achieve a greater amount of depth when you use more fabrics of different values.
Here is a very short clip of part of the progression of this piece. At one point, I decided I did not like the fabrics I had chosen for the face and began again. The tools I use the most are tweezers, a ruler and small, very sharp scissors.
Quite a bit more tweaking was needed to get to the finished version, but at the end of the clip you begin to see the direction I am headed
I had the most fun with the girl's hair. I used several different fabrics to explore the play of light on her hair. If you look closely, you will see 6 individual fabrics just on the hair. You can achieve a greater amount of depth when you use more fabrics of different values.Here is a very short clip of part of the progression of this piece. At one point, I decided I did not like the fabrics I had chosen for the face and began again. The tools I use the most are tweezers, a ruler and small, very sharp scissors.
Quite a bit more tweaking was needed to get to the finished version, but at the end of the clip you begin to see the direction I am headed
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