Art goings-on
Mar. 2nd, 2006 11:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
st_aurafinaI made an icon for arty entries... So, this icon-making business, it's kind of addictive, yeah. I'm lurking at ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
icon_tutorial where there are lots of tutorials in the memories that will hopefully help me navigate PSP and all those mysterious layer thingies. I'm a total PSP n00b, but the tutorials assume as much, and soon I might actually be able to make up an icon that is more than a cropped image. I wanted to make an icon with an echidna on it (we saw one on Tuesday, undulating across the road), but I stuffed it up and had to have a time-out from the computer.
Art-wise, there have been many achievements in the last few weeks.
Mostly there's stuff because end of month = deadlines for swaps, and so stuff gets finished.
Board book challenge: a one-for-one swap, altering a child's board book.
I hve a set of small alphabet board books, and used one of those for this swap. It's a small book, but with a surprising number of pages, enough for me to do 4 spreads and a niche. I took words from an incredibly awful pirate romance. The heroine had eyes that change colour depending on her mood. Blue = happy. Green = angry. And her hair was flaxen. There were lots of really florid descriptions, though, and that makes for interesting reconstructions.
One of the main problems I had with the board book is the gutter, which kept cracking. I solved the problem by glueing narrow strips of mulberry paper over the spine. (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lilacsigil's idea, she saved me from varnishing myself to the wall in despair.)
Cover of the book:
One of the spreads:
I'm in a year-long art quilt swap, and have been experimenting with ways of altering fabrics, based on what I've picked up from Quilting Arts Magazine and Cloth, Paper, Scissors Magazine.
Experimentation has largely involved burning stuff. Yeah, the stinky stuff. *reels from fumes*
Nappy liners bonded with black fabric using vliesofix:
Painted vliesofix ironed onto black velvet ribbon:
Making chiffon sandwiches is seriously the best fun, you get to use all the glitzy, loud fabrics, and there's burning. It's stinky, and probably toxic. But it's fun and really pretty. I've cut little heart-shaped pieces out of this sample and appliqued them onto my angel sampler quilt.
Chiffon sandwich, stitched then burned back to reveal different layers of fabric:
Xpanda print is a kind of artist's puff paint. I'm not as happy with this product as I'd hoped - it's expensive and it doesn't mix well with paints, so the only colouring option is to paint over the top once you've "puffed" it. The black version of the paint is good, but restricts the colour scheme you can use. Still, I'm happy with this sample, which I've sewed over on the machine using metallic thread. This square is also going into my angel sampler quilt - I've since embroidered the word "Joy" on it, and embellished it with green and orange beads.
And lastly, my young apprentice, Baggins, lounging on the art table:
He's all leggy-like now. *sigh*
icon_tutorial where there are lots of tutorials in the memories that will hopefully help me navigate PSP and all those mysterious layer thingies. I'm a total PSP n00b, but the tutorials assume as much, and soon I might actually be able to make up an icon that is more than a cropped image. I wanted to make an icon with an echidna on it (we saw one on Tuesday, undulating across the road), but I stuffed it up and had to have a time-out from the computer. Art-wise, there have been many achievements in the last few weeks.
Mostly there's stuff because end of month = deadlines for swaps, and so stuff gets finished.
Board book challenge: a one-for-one swap, altering a child's board book.
I hve a set of small alphabet board books, and used one of those for this swap. It's a small book, but with a surprising number of pages, enough for me to do 4 spreads and a niche. I took words from an incredibly awful pirate romance. The heroine had eyes that change colour depending on her mood. Blue = happy. Green = angry. And her hair was flaxen. There were lots of really florid descriptions, though, and that makes for interesting reconstructions.
One of the main problems I had with the board book is the gutter, which kept cracking. I solved the problem by glueing narrow strips of mulberry paper over the spine. (
lilacsigil's idea, she saved me from varnishing myself to the wall in despair.)Cover of the book:
One of the spreads:
I'm in a year-long art quilt swap, and have been experimenting with ways of altering fabrics, based on what I've picked up from Quilting Arts Magazine and Cloth, Paper, Scissors Magazine.
Experimentation has largely involved burning stuff. Yeah, the stinky stuff. *reels from fumes*
Nappy liners bonded with black fabric using vliesofix:
Painted vliesofix ironed onto black velvet ribbon:
Making chiffon sandwiches is seriously the best fun, you get to use all the glitzy, loud fabrics, and there's burning. It's stinky, and probably toxic. But it's fun and really pretty. I've cut little heart-shaped pieces out of this sample and appliqued them onto my angel sampler quilt.
Chiffon sandwich, stitched then burned back to reveal different layers of fabric:
Xpanda print is a kind of artist's puff paint. I'm not as happy with this product as I'd hoped - it's expensive and it doesn't mix well with paints, so the only colouring option is to paint over the top once you've "puffed" it. The black version of the paint is good, but restricts the colour scheme you can use. Still, I'm happy with this sample, which I've sewed over on the machine using metallic thread. This square is also going into my angel sampler quilt - I've since embroidered the word "Joy" on it, and embellished it with green and orange beads.
And lastly, my young apprentice, Baggins, lounging on the art table:
He's all leggy-like now. *sigh*
