Featured Piece of the Day: “Antlers II” and Progress on New Piece
Thursday, November 19th, 2009I am reducing prices on my work for the remainder of 2009-Read more here
I am featuring a piece of my work every day or so through the end of the year. Here’s today’s piece:
"Antlers II" (c) 2008 by Tracy McCabe Stewart
“Antlers II”
2008
By Tracy McCabe Stewart
33”lx24”w
Hand dyed, painted and commercial cottons. Machine quilted.
2010 price: $1200
2009 price: $890
I have also been working away at a new heron piece. Here are some pictures of the process:
I start by having an outline of the shapes of the birds cut out in batting. I then fuse on a base fabric, in this case black and start cutting and fusing on individual feathers. I build them up in layers. Here I am using a hand dyed fabric of mine. Here are the larger tailfeathers.
larger feathers are fused on individually
From there I cut out individual stringier breeding plumage and add those individually:
individual feathers for breeding plumage
Here’s the whole bird. I have yet to add legs, eyes and beak color. I will be shading with colored pencils and paintsticks to add depth, as well. I’ll post more as I go:
