Up a little later this morning, I'm confused, I thought it was Monday... No, its Sunday, we had a public holiday on Thursday and I'm out of kilter.
This morning I'm experimenting with two new things, techniques, whatever you like to call them.
I had this image of a wooden statue. I found it in a garden centre in Taos. Its a good image to practice on.
Statues are great for creating portraits because of the sharp contours on the face.
I've been doing portraits with cheesecloth for a while, but I decided to try a few different techniques.This one is just pure white.
The next one will be in shades of grey so on Tuesday, maybe today, I will dye the fabric to match.
I'm not going to go into all the details of how I've done it... you need to come to class for that.
However, I will share the quilting and for the first time I'm using my GoPro camera to capture the images as I sew.
The GoPro is used mainly for extreme sports photography.Its even got a housing so I can use it when I'm surfing or skydiving.!!!! NOT
I reckon we could introduce it to quilters.
I've been experimenting with it for a few weeks, I used it at the last quilt show, walking the aisles etc, but I lost the footage in Iphoto when the computer crashed. A bit of work will locate it and now the tiny wide angle camera is stuck on my sewing machine.
It seems to be working a treat and capturing the images well.
I'm happy with the quilting too. It adds contour and dimension and texture to the image I like the way it softens the edges of the fabric.
This is just darned exciting.
