Wednesday, October 15, 2014

It's Reveal day again! CONTRAST is the word.



This is my rendition of Contrast. I chose the word, then I did what everyone else in this group probably does, just go blank and scratch my head in puzzlement. What am I going to make?

So I played around with the word….black & white is contrasting, so are a lot of other colors, but I wanted to make something totally different and out of the ordinary. I decided to do, my daughter Sarah, who has very light skin and dark hair = CONTRAST.

First I asked permission to use a photo she had which was a gift for a friend - well she is an adult and I didn’t just want to take her photo without permission.
Then I did some photoshop stuff with it, like change it to “posterized” which gives me about six colors to choose from, rather than look at the subject/colors all at once. It broke the tones up so I could see where to make transitions.

Because the original pic was square, I had to get this enlarged somehow, so I used the copier at work and did it in sections. (Since then a friend has given me an enlarger!)
I then outlined the sections and used a black magic marker to divide up the colors, and then numbered them. Luckily for me, I found a person who does fabric dying in all the shades I was looking for (skin tones) at the Mancuso show in August.

The piece is not sewn, but fused, and I framed it as well.  I thought it would look better this way. I did try some sewing, but it was very distracting and I just wasn’t happy with it.
Check out more fun work at Off The Wall Friday!

4 comments:

  1. You have a pretty daughter and made a very beautiful portrait. Congrats with this finish.
    Thanks for sharing
    Love from Amsterdam

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  2. The image is very artsy.... no sewing needed. Great eye and great contrast, you nailed it.

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  3. Very good job on this! I hear you about the sewing, whenever I try faces the quilting always shows every stitch and you are so right about being distracting. It's not like your going to wash it. I don't know why I feel like I have to quilt everything down :-/

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