Spent a full day in the studio Thursday. Inspiration showed up and I had a painting frenzy on canvas. Hardware cloth is one of my favorite surface design tools.
This lovely piece is growing up to be a square fabric box. It was made to hold items of a certain size I wanted to contain. I can see more of these being born in other sizes, maybe some nesting.
These are cut from old mat board scraps. They come in handy to frame what part of a larger piece you want to use in your design.
Flat brass strips in graduated sizes from
K&S are used in book binding, but they made my seam allowance measurements so much easier.
Acrylic paint to do an all over treatment on a larger piece of
canvas. Got the fabric wet first so the acrylic acts like water color
& bleeds.
To prove you can learn anything on Youtube I investigated
how to draw ovals
for the base of this vessel. It's in my Pinterest board for circles,
which now needs to be changed to circles & ovals apparently. Of
course I have made several different sizes.
Masking tape with sides labeled is a must. I have pinned & sewn wrong sides together more times can I care to admit. See the second picture in this post.
I will post pictures of the finished items. soon.
Looks like lots of fun, Linda. We head to Hawaii on Saturday to stay in Roslyn's studio. Watch for photos on Facebook.
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