Foxy Fun & Happy Accidents...

Well, I finished the quilt I gave you a sneak peek of last week, but I’m still working on getting some good pics of it, so here’s a look at a little something else I’m working on in the mean time…haha, turns out it’s a work in progress too!

I thought it might be nice to get out of my little box and try something different. So… I signed up for a short (3 session) screen printing class. It’s taught by a local artist in a studio that’s a bit like a skinny storage attic, and we all huddle around a shopping cart that’s been turned into a make-shift exposure unit and printing station (sounds crazy, I know).

I wanted to print a fox and make them into pillows. (You can see I’m still not venturing that far from my comfort zone yet). Here’s the original drawing I made on tracing paper using my trusty technical pens. But…

… you know those projects that doesn’t quite turn out the way you planned? Turns out when I went to draw directly on the plastic, my technical pens didn’t work. I had to use a Sharpie, so my artwork ended up with thicker lines and less detail, but I was still on track with my pillow idea…

or so I thought!

Introducing Mr. No-face Half-a-Fox, haha…

Ugh… all those fur lines, gone! I was initially disappointed, but then I realized that this was exactly what needed to happen. I took this class to get out of my comfort zone, but here I was still trying to do the same thing. Now I was being forced to do something different. So, I printed him on paper instead, and then… then, the ideas started flowing, I could do so many things to it. I could draw on top of it, print another screen over it next week in a new color maybe, collage it, paint it, stitch on it… whatever I wanted.

So now I have four half-fox prints waiting to be experimented on, and next weekend after my final class I will show you the final results… good or not so good. You won’t want to miss it!