Self Portrait

We had a great Thanksgiving, lots of family and food.  During the next few days we put up the tree and spent time with the grand-kids.

Martina wanted to do a self-portrait, so I got out all may fabric paints and helped her figure out how to go about creating a portrait.  While Jeff is a great illustrator, in pencil and ink.  Martina and I are more skilled in fiber arts.  So, not feeling confident about drawing, we explored several ideas.  Finally settling on using a photograph.  Martina is a skill photographer.  So, she selected a photo, we ran it through Photoshop and changed it to black and white.  Then we taped the photo to my glass door and taped a piece of cotton over the photo.  Martina traced the photo on to the fabric and then used assorted paints, chalk, ink, etc. and created....

 I have also being doing the last things for the Black Sheep Weavers Guild Show.  Be sure to check it out.  There are a lot of  great artists participating, a great place to get a unique gift for Christmas or yourself.

Pam