I'm playing with the whole idea of making art quilts in the style of my paintings. I want to do some actual painting on fabric but I'm broke! I spent all of my fun money on supplies for my show quilt and now I need to get quilting to fund the rest of the quilt and Christmas. (This is probably not the best business model, I know. I'm in it for passion not profit people. Though a profit would be nice!)
I don't know why the photos of my sketches came out so - digitized!?! They look really cool though don't they?
In any case this whole thing is actually for a blog hop I'm going to be in using batiks. I was going to just make a dragonfly but then I had to get carried away and do more. Because that's what I do. LOL
The dragonfly wasn't enough so I added a sun and now I need to add a girl. Me fifteen years ago? Maybe. A thinner, younger me. Possibly a Hindu me because she does have a bindi. :)
I sketched out the sun and the dragonfly in the same manner and assigned each section a number - I just forgot to take pictures of those. I did make some changes as I went to make pieces that would be easier to turn the fabric under. After assigning each piece a number I traced it onto freezer paper, then using the freezer paper as templates cut the pieces out of fabric.
I still need to turn under the tiny hair pieces today. Everything but the girl is from batik fabric. I'm thinking I'm going to play with shading her and her hair in a bit with my Shiva Paintstiks. If I don't get side tracked that is. :)
