Yellow Roses From My "Hunny"

Actually, I often refer to him as "Dr. Bobby Hunny" (mostly, just Robert)...my husband of 28 years, as of yesterday, gave me my favorite roses...yellow....

As a young girl, growing up on a farm in Kansas, my Mama always put them in my room on my birthday, as we had a yellow rose bush....brings back loving memories....

LOVE TRULY DOES MAKE THE WORLD GO ROUND...AND ROUND...AND ROUND

Backwards...Opus...

This is the end result of weeks of hard work...I have everything backwards here...(it would seem I'll never get this right)....I now have my left thumb in a brace, and my right wrist and thumb in a brace..Didn't do the left thumb from making this guy...my guy was opening a door just as I was going out on the other side...dislocated it..gah!!!

He looks so different, when photographed indoors......................

At a certain point, I ripped off his bottem "feathers", as they were too bright, and I hated them...

See what I mean...I also covered his white "nose crest"..didn't like that either....In fact, I nearly chucked the entire project, but the gallery owner, Sonia, came and talked me down...

I used several shades of silk....fused together with a product called "Heat Bond"...in order to stiffen it, then cut hundreds of "feathers" and glued them on...hundreds...and hundreds.

I made his "base" from silk..(don't know why, as it didn't show), but it was lighter than other fabrics...I sewed it to buckram, and then, stuffed fiberfill in him (sort of "trapunto" style)..then, quilted him..to keep the fiberfill from falling...Then, I sewed him on the canvas using copper wire..cutting myself alot...Hey, this wasn't easy..

How to make an eye...backwards, of course

His "pupil" is a velvet-covered button I made..then, I glue Swaroski (sp?) crystals to make the "catchlights" (that's a photography term for the light in an eye) This shows the "fusion" process...This was not an easy project...

The whole point of this is explained on the Stinger Studio website...go - read - enjoy-

http://www.stingerstudio.com

Happy Valentine's Day, Ya'll

Well, I have been gone (in case anyone noticed)....Blogging takes time, and it takes responses to keep one going...I do appreciate the responses so much, and to be truthful, just got discouraged. But, I am sucking it up, and moving forward.

Happy Valentine's Day...I made this card for my husband, who said, "that's nice", and then, I had to ask for a hug...this is turning me into a curmudgeon, isn't it? So, here..have a lovely day...(maybe I should have finished my coffee before this) Actually, if you can guess what this is, you are amazing...This is why I've been so busy of late...
Stinger Studios here in Georgetown, Texas has put out a "call for artists"..It's called "Art for a Song", and Sonia, the owner, has taken a wonderful song, (I won't reveal it yet), and we all chose a line from it to interpret...My line is, "And the nightbirds cease their song"...I have lost my mind.
Below, is the drawing, taped to a huge canvas..(that's the foot of my bed it's leaning against)..the canvas is five feet X 3ft.

I have the background in place now...(the entire thing is going to be velvet and silk)..the rest is a secret...Right now, it reminds me of the cartoon character, "Opus"..remember Opus..?

I will do my best to keep you posted...now, off to make feathers...

XOXOXO