9/14/19 - CCLQ in the Wild with Deborah and Joy

Welcome to another edition of CCLQ in the Wild!!

 It's been a while.  Our roving reporter spotted two members of our Quilt Bee out and about in Carrboro.   This time, Deborah and Joy were found at a Playful Portraiture Class with Lyric Kinard.

Deborah arrived and got set up:

Joy had pencil and paper ready:

Class members, gathered around the scrap table:

Here's a look at the load of scraps we brought to share:

Here's Deborah, enjoying the Cut and Paste portion of class:

Joy is busy cutting ears for "Cartoon Andrea":

Lyric worked on each part of the process, along with the class:

Joy's partner worked on "Cartoon Joy":

Look this way, please.  Joy needed to get a better idea of nose and ears for her fabric cartoon character:

I think the ears might need a bit of a trim:

This is Deborah's cartoon partner:

Joy's table mate's cartoon partner:

Cartoon Joy is coming right along:

Some people chose to work standing up:

Lyric uses an inexpensive light box from Amazon:

She traces the dark areas first, then moves on to the lighter areas:

The photo below gives an idea of how she marks the shading:

Choosing our portrait for tracing came next:

Oh, shiny!  Our class portraits:

Another look at Lyric's tracing...

... And a better look at her chosen subject:

Lyric helped Deborah with her shading:

This classmate brought snacks to share,

along with some show and tell:

Here is a close-up of the knit bracelet with a collection of buttons from her travels abroad:

After lunch, Lyric shared some of her quilts:

She learns something new with each piece:

Lessons - Shades of ONE color, above.

Closer shades of one color, below:

Circles were hand beaded to...

On a quilt that Lyric didn't like, until asking herself one question:

What's the worst that could happen???

The following quilt was a photo of her daughter, put through an app that turned it into a line drawing:

Lyric then had the photo enlarged at a copy store and printed on fabric @ Spoonflower, after which, she painted, layered, and quilted the resulting image:

She made this fun quilt using Adobe Draw:

One last cartoon character, before...

... Moving on to choosing our own Lyric-made

Adobe Draw pattern to translate into fabric:

Another example (below) where closer shading would have worked MUCH better than the chosen fabrics provided:

A close-up of one of Lyric's Adobe Draw patterns:

TIP:  Take a phone photo in black and white to check values:

Lyric's next portrait in process:

Interpreting an Adobe Draw pattern into fabric:

Here is a face, ready to be applied to a background:

Joy chose to work on Ella Fitzgerald:

Lyric, conducting an end-of-class wrap-up:

Deborah with Lyric:

Joy with Lyric:

What a wonderful day!!