Wednesday, January 30, 2013


My rooster is finally finished and I am quite happy with it. I went in and added colored pencil. I was particularly happy with the pale blue that matched the sky and helped to hide some of the areas that the colors bled a bit to much. I added bead work to the cloud, the tail, the wing and I also found a perfectly colored stone heart. I believe it is a jasper. 
 I am quite into instant gratification, so doing the bead work was excruciating. Especially since I almost finished the first feather only to find out I didn't have enough beads to finish it and had to rip it out. I almost gave up right then. But every night I dutifully sat myself down to work on it. Phew! 
 The next piece in my mind would be a Mucha. I have a bunch of framed Mucha pieces in my bedroom and I think they would make stunning art quilts. Maybe I will wait awhyle  before I even go there because my original bright idea included bead work. Hehehe. Then again maybe it would look great without beads on it.  I think I will just play in my journal tonight.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow This is outstanding !!! I love it.............

Unknown said...

This is so pretty! Love the vivid colors. Thanks for stopping by my blog and checking out my work :)

Nicole Maki said...

I can't get over how gorgeous and rich your colors are.

Lovely work!

Stamping With Bibiana said...

great projects...i browse your blog and I found lots of interesting and different crafts...great Hugs bibiana
(carousel tutorial at SCS)

stampingbowd said...

Gorgeous! What beautiful work you do! I looked at your sidebar and see that you live in Wichita! We lived in Emporia when I was growing up! I have joined your blog! Have a great week!

Lynn Mercurio said...

This is an outstanding work of art. You should be very pleased with your results...it's amazing.

Unknown said...

Wow! I can't even image how much time this took. This is really beautiful. Even thou I am not a quilter I can appreciate what you have put into this. Really super.

Viki Banaszak said...

Thanks everyone for the encouragement.