Hello everyone. Sorry I havent been able to update my blog lately due to Uni committments. I hope to be a bit more regular in future. I have been purchasing Ebooks ( and regular books) from a site called www.interweave.com. This site specializes in Quilting, Mixed Media, Art etc etc and has a wonderful range of products. At the moment I am researching various methods of image transfers and the free pdf's I have received from this site are wonderful.
I am also testing out some "Portrait Quilt" techniques. Two failures so far, but I will get there eventually...The method I am using was the subject of an ebook called "Making Faces". This involved printing out 3 or 4 copies of a head and shoulders only picture, on my inkject or laser printer, in A4 size.
Four different materials in monotones, ranging from very light to dark were used, and Steam a Seam2, a type of Vliesofix, but double papered, is adhered to the back of all except the lightest material(which is the background). The paper is removed from one piece of Steam a Seam 2, at a time, and one of the print out pics is pressed onto the back which then has another sticky part. The procedure then is to draw around all the lightest parts with a pen and cut them out( from the material and the photocopy) peel the photocopy off and press down onto the first lightest material. On the subsequent pieces of material, the other copies are adhered in the same way, but the next tone up has the next tone cut out of the material and photocopy). This is repeated using all the papers and finally you will have a small portrait with different tones for the different features. Ie, a light background, beige facial features, darker beige shadows etc right on up to dark hair and extra dark shadows. I am having a problem at the moment getting all the different monotones of the materials to look like a set.-Doesnt it always look so easy when other people do it.....???? I used entirely mismatched materials the first time and it looked awful. The second time the materials matched nicely but the portrait does not look like the original in a million years... Well I am still into shadows and reflections for this uni module, so I will get back to it now. Have a look at that site and get some free "how to" articles, definitely recommend it.
Bye for now,
Jennine
