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I can't believe it's been nearly 3 months since I've properly blogged - and longer still since I've been in my studio!
For those of you just catching up - we moved at the end of May. That meant my studio was packed up almost since the beginning of May. You'd think that would mean that I'd be back in my new studio by the middle of June - at least I did; but you'd be incorrect in that assumption. What with one thing and another, (and another and another! the details with which I will not bore you); I didn't actually get to start unpacking my studio until last week.
There's still more to be done, but it's usable now (and I have begun a small step in that direction!); so I thought I'd show the very last thing I got done before it all went away for so long.
I started with..
This scrap piece of "failed" dye cloth I had. This piece is much smaller than it actually looks - about 15 inches long and perhaps 5 inches tall at its widest point. I've saved it for years because I liked the way it felt - it had a really lovely suede-y texture and I thought maybe someday I could use it for something. But I refused to move it... and I had decided to participate in the Canadian Quilt Talk Canada Day Postcard Swap. (That's a mouthful isn't it?)
Of course, I immediately regretted my decision, but having signed up, I had no choice but to proceed!
Above you'll see my sketch for my postcard - and that was where I started. Then I splatter painted some black broadcloth with orange, yellow and a bit of red acrylic paint.
I used my paper pattern to cut out a leaf shape from fabric..
and proceeded to paint the leaf. I wasn't exactly sure how to get the result I wanted, but as usual, I reasoned - it's not brain surgery, and if I screw it up - I'll just begin again!
I just kept layering the paint on...
...but by the time I got to this point I realized I was in trouble! lol
So I put some water in a little spray bottle and got myself one of my favourite hard bristled brushes (on the right) and spritzed and brushed and spritzed and brushed.
By the time I was done, I still wasn't exactly sure I had gotten the result I wanted, but I decided to go ahead anyway. I let it dry, and then fused it with some double sided fusible.
And cut out the rest of my vein pattern.
I cut out my post-card shape out of some flexi-firm, and wrote my message and address on some heavy white cotton, which I fused to one side of the flexi-firm
Then I fused the leaf to my splatter-painted background fabric cut to size; and from there, it was a just a matter of fusing that to the front of my flexi firm (marketed as flexi-fiber at Fabricland).
I did some cross-stitched x's around the border with black DMC floss to prevent unravelling (I didn't get a picture of that before I popped it in the mail - oops!) and...
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Ta Da!
My first postcard. It was received in good shape by the recipient. And now I know how to make one.
:)
See you on Wednesday, with the beginnings of something new...
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I always get such a kick out of your "process". You are one of the most fearless artists I know. You dive in ice water and come out looking like a million!!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! I hope the one you get in return is as lovely and created with such care and thought.
ReplyDeleteLovely! I too enjoy seeing your process...and how you 'see' so clearly what lies at the heart of your selected materials, what they're going to become. :-) Glad your studio is operating again.
ReplyDeleteReally effective and I enjoyed reading about the process.
ReplyDeleteLovely and fun. That's a good match. Welcome back.
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