CRAFT

CRAFT
verb: to make or produce with care, skill, or ingenuity

Monday, October 23, 2017

Suffering for your Art


Those that know me, know how I feel about having my picture taken.

And selfies?  Just, no.

Yep, the pain is real.

But, a couple years ago, I really wanted to do a portrait quilt.  And so many artsy people do self-portraits.  Time to bite the bullet.





I used Roxio photo editor to simulate the fabric I had in mind to use for the hair.








Oops. It wasn't until I had applied the fusible web to the fabric that I realized I forgot to reverse the image.



















Trying out border ideas.











In the end, I went with a simple, straight border.



Okay. That wasn't toooo bad.









Fast forward to the present.  Let's try this again.


This time I used acrylic paint and a digital drawing program called Autodesk SketchBook.

For this picture I poured paint on freezer paper and let it dry, creating paint skins that can be peeled off and used as collage material.  I laid the pieces over the selfie printout and took a picture.  In Autodesk, I traced over the face and glasses and then erased the photo underneath.
The finished product is only in digital form at this point.  For now.

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