Project Quilting 15.2 - Sky Color

 For this week's Project Quilting, the prompt was Sky Color. The twist was that we were to use less than 10% of sky blue. This is my piece, Winter Sunset.

Just like last time I did a sketch in Procreate on my iPad and then printed it out on a sheet of printer ready fabric.

And once again, even after doing a printhead cleaning and realignment I got pink horizontal lines. They were lighter this time and the image came out better. So who knows? There's plenty of ink and so forth.  I went with stitching horizontally with a lighter pink thread.

Then I used a dark brown to go over the branches and the writing with free motion quilting.

Did I print the image out on the wrong side of the printer fabric, ie the paper? Why yes I did, but look how cool this is, with that column down the center. Where that came from, I have no earthly idea. I almost added in a tulle net column on the quilt to try and mimic this look, but decided to leave it as is.

Procreate Class

I'm taking an online class in Procreate offered through Carla Sonheim with artist Lewis Rossignol. I really like the platform that Carla has created, the classes are presented very professionally and clearly, it's all very easy to use. In this class, Lewis is showing us how he combines digital and paper work together. It's so interesting to see how this is done and get to know how to use this powerful program just a little  bit more. 

The above was my starting point drawing of a face. No laughing, please! I haven't drawn a whole lot lately, and haven't drawn a face in quite a long time.

After watching the first lesson I did the work on my iPad outside because it was so nice. We used a separate scan program to get the image into Procreate and then the fun really began. The power of layers (just like in Photoshop) was brought home to me once again. 

I like a lot of things about my picture so far. And some I really don't, which is easy to replace/erase or transform in Procreate. The possibilities are endless with this program, which is a big part of the reason I've never gotten too far into learning a digital drawing program, that endlessness is frankly rather paralyzing to me. But I'm diving in and trying to push myself to get a little further along this time. 

I found that the Apple Pencil was a little hard for me to hold for very long at a time because it's quite slim. I got myself a barrel grip thing and it really helps my hand. That's what that red thing is on the white pencil.