The 12 x 12 group topic this time was "Whimsical" ......."I
love turtles". Of course I had to eat the chocolates first :)
I then heat
shrunk the wrappers and attached to black background fabric for the body of the
turtle. That cost me a few needles, let me tell you! Head and legs are also of
black fabric with copper painted on for contrast to the dark background. I drew faintly on the background where I
wanted to place the turtle, then attached the heat shrunk cellophane (floral
wrap) to show bubbles in the water. Also
the background is actually 4 small pieces of my hand dyed gradation fabric sewn
together. After the "bubbles"
were sewn down, I added the quilting lines.
And finally I added the turtle, binding etc.
Now...... where did I put that other box of
chocolates.....
Sad how some of us suffer for our art! Chocolate wrappers rarely looked so good. Great way to introduce yourself to the group.
ReplyDeleteMargaret, I love the affect of the chocolate wrappers for the turtle's shell. Beautiful piece!
ReplyDeleteThis is great Margaret. I love turtles too and suffer whenever I can! It's amazing how the wrappers duplicated the turtle's "carapace" so well. And your dyed fabric looks fantastic.
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