Collaged Hair and Such
In my last post, I showed you the large digitally printed fabric that I’m currently working on. Since the image was somewhat pixelated – which I expected – I decided I needed to at least partially collage the people.
I started with the hair, thinking that maybe it was all I needed.
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But, it was so effective I knew I couldn’t stop there. My procedure was to study the fabric and photo VERY hard, in order to find subtle variations. Once found, I drew these directly on the quilt fabric, and then cut each fabric to shape.
Since I was working on the backs of people, I didn’t have to be super accurate, so I didn’t make pattern pieces. I just cut into the fabric. And tweaked the pieces as needed.
I quilted each section as I went. Just to hold all those tiny pieces in place before proceeding. Don’t you think this collage result is MUCH more interesting than the printed fabric? I was very excited by it!
This was my set up. I had the laptop handy, with the same image showing. It had more contrast, so I referenced it a lot.
The photo above was taken late in the process. Because I was working on the lower portion, I actually got to sit down at the design wall. A first for me.
Ellen Lindner
See many more collaged quilts on my website
Yes! Waaaaay more exciting to see the collaged pieces, glad you jumped into it. More excitment and intrigue up close and basically same effect at a distance. Hmmmm, wonder if I can do this in oil…..thinking, thinking…..
Wow! This is terrific – an exciting new (sort of new) direction. Very cool.
Love the collage hair. Very interesting to see it up close. This is something I haven’t tried to do yet, but would like to try. Very effective!
Thanks, Maeve! I’m kinda loving it too.
Thanks, Cindy. I really like it too!
Hmm. How WOULD you do that in oils? I bet you’ll be experimenting.
Thanks, Christine!
Hello Ellen, A lovely piece of work. If you have a high resolution image of about 300dpi or at least 1mg., and fancy putting it into our new section of our magazine Through Our Hands, please do get in touch! Annabel x