Hot, Hot, Hot
Our community, like many around the globe is hot. I can’t help but think of the all the jokes that begin “How hot is it?” Would you believe the second answer I saw while searching for punch lines was: “it is so hot I saw a robin pull out a worm with an oven mitt.” How very apropos for my latest artwork.
Anticipation
Isn’t that photo fabulous? I knew I had to interpret it in fabric the moment I saw it in an email. So, I asked my friend for permission to do so. Thankfully, she gave me a thumbs up. Being me, my brain leap frogged through numerous ways to tackle this project. Talk about heat, my brain goes into over drive zipping through ideas, recalibrating so quickly, if I were a cartoon my head would have steam rising from it. Now that’s hot!
The biggest challenge was the nest. Frankly, they are messy and I am not. My natural go to way of working is with zero raw edges. Time to leap out of my comfort zone. This nest would be 3D with raw edges and messy.
In my last post I asked if you could identify what the object(s) in the photo below is? One reader did respond correctly that there were grocery store elastics. What I did was mold the 3D section of the nest on a cantoloupe. It provided the perfect, gentle curve I needed. Once the fabric dried it held the shape.
Hot Off My Needle
The big reveal! Yes, very early on I did swap the setting from an old shed to a tree.
Rainbow Scrap Challenge
Now that Anticipation is complete I can turn my attention back to the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. My plan is to begin with light blue next week.
I’m linking up to the following posts:
