Many years ago, I had the privilege of seeing the magnificent cave paintings of Lascaux in France. Well, to be strictly accurate, they were the paintings in the reproduction of the cave! Never-the-less they made the type of impression that stays with one forever.
Call me crazy...(you wouldn't be the first!)...but I have a pseudo cave painting in my garden! It's high up a tree, but every time I look at it, I see an auroch or some wonderful horned beast with a fluffy white tail.
Do you see it?
This was my muse for today's weekly art challenge!
I started off with a couple of drawings, first a pencil exploration to capture tonal differences & then a play with line & colour. Drawing is a very important component of any preliminary work I do for an art piece. Drawing is where the eyes & the hands join forces to feel their way around a subject & then play with & manipulate it to their bidding. It is an essential exercise.
Settling on a design & then drawing up a 'map' of how I was going to proceed, I then sorted through my fabrics & finally settled on this combination.
I like to prepare the background first & in this case, it meant a little bit of strip patchwork.
Once complete the top sandwich of fabric layers were sewn into place...
...before I started cutting back the first layer...
...and then the second.
Finally the third layer was cut back to reveal a fluffy white tail & an interesting outline.
Further stitching to one side added interest & weight.
Voila...the final result...a way to remember my cave painting in the tree!
Today's project was the quickest I have worked on one of these samples so far; what you've just witnessed is 2 1/2 hours of concentrated work!
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