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!!
