Art Deco Fabric Design

I'm experimenting with fabric patterns again. I think I am getting a little better at them but I'm still not fully satisfied. One that is more up close is just an experiment that shows the process I went through. When I repeated it, I changed the colors but it still has the same basic pattern.

Kiss

 Friends of mine got married and had posted wedding pictures online. I asked if I could draw some of the photos because some of them really captured them as a couple. Maybe I was being a romantic today but when I saw a photo of their kiss, I just had to draw it. There are two different versions of the digital drawing I did. It is just a quick drawing I spent no more than one hour on. I was getting frustrated with getting the right colors when I decided that maybe I will just do it in gray-scale. I think It came out a lot better since I changed it. It makes the piece more dramatic and personally I think it makes it more look more romantic.

Totally 80's

I helped out at the local swing dance club decorate because they were having a themed dance. The theme was 80's and it was a lot of fun picking out music and trying to be creative with decorations. I researched things that were invented or became popular in the 80's. Things like post-it notes, pac-man, rubix cubes and more. It is a little difficult to see but I painted a mirror with a pac-man game, and on the other mirror used post-its as a writing tool. When it came time for the dance, you better believe I dressed up! It was a lot of work to find/make my outfit. That is one thing that I am glad about the 80's is over. I don't think I could handle taking an hour and a half to get ready every day. (my hair is usually in a normal pony tail, and usually straight, not curly at all)

Quaker style Wedding Certificate Sktetch

So my brother is getting married in may and has decided to have a Quaker style wedding where everyone who witnesses the wedding has to sign a certificate. This is my first sketch of some things that might be on the certificate. I'm going to design a border with blossoms, birds and maybe berries. (Not sure if the deer will stay). After I sketch it out how I want on the tablet, I will hand draw and paint it on textured paper where everyone will sign. It's pretty cool that everyone will sign my artwork. I will also have to typeset his and her names and all of the information that they want on it.

First Attempt at a Fabric Design

I know this is a very simple design but I am just playing around with a new website I found where they have weekly fabric contests. This weeks theme is "Outdated Technology". Not exactly an easy theme to start with. I based mine off of typewriter keys. I guess in a few days I will get to see what ideas others have come up with. I think I did ok for doing it the night before the contest deadline. Now I can start on next weeks!

Farm Show

While visiting the PA Farm Show this year, Tina, Lars and I decided to go on the Carousel. It was difficult to take a photo while we were moving so I decided to take a video. Not taking in account that we were all moving at different rates so it came out very comical. 

Farm Show 2012

While walking through the animals I couldn't help take a picture of this little boy taking a nap with his enormous cow. Many may be frightened of these animals (Sometimes I am myself) you can see in this photo that sometimes they just like to cuddle :)

Sparkles!

That's right! I have a pet cow. My brother works for a milking company and while visiting a farm, a farmer offered him a baby calf that had been born only hours before on December 13, 2011. He texted me and asked me if I wanted a cow and my response was... "Who doesn't?"  Needless to say, later that night my brother came home with a beautiful baby Jersey cow. I named him Sparkles, not sure why but when someone asked what his name was that was the first thing that came out of my mouth.

 Luckily I have an amazing boyfriend who knows all about calves like my father. So he had the supplies needed to raise one. Like a bottle, milk replacer and all of the right shots to give him to prevent illness. He is still doing great and I am actually currently working on a wood burn drawing of the calf. Hopefully it turns out good!