Odd Hair: Pony Tails and Scary Mouths
Time to work on the pony tails of my odd hair quilt. I planned to use little bits of a variety of fabrics represnting dark blonde hair.
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Soon, my table looked like this. See the ponytails under contstruction on a fused base fabric on the left.
Hey, they turned out pretty well! Later, I added more hair fabrics to the top part of the head.
Wow, I had no idea mouths were so difficult to draw, size, and place properly. I spent A LOT of time drawing a bunch of them! Some with braces and some without.
Finally, I decided on the perfect mouth and put it in place.
Ahh! Scary mouth! Look away!
Geesh, that was bad. I tried again.
Oh my, that was worse! I was beginning to think that the mouth should have no color and that it should be more cartoon-like. Anything to relieve the pressure of getting it exactly right!
While I let that idea evolve, I went back to work on the figures and was happy with my progress. (MUCH easier than mouths!)
Another idea: could I leave the nose off too? I almost giggled when I thought of that!
Since I wanted to call attention to the pony tails, I began to experiment with blue hair bands. They seemed to add the emphasis I wanted.
Ellen Lindner
