I picked the photo to work with to make the vellum portrait of my daughter’s house. The vellum is one I have from my father’s drafting vellums.
I drew out a pattern to work with and did a rough coloring in on my iPad.
Then I traced it out on the vellum. I usually use Faber Castell India ink makers, but mine were running out of ink so I used a sharpie.
Then I started to color it in with Tombow markers which I’ve used before. What a disaster! The sharpie marker mixed in with the Tombow markers. Then my dad’s pencil marking began to blur. Apparently sharpies are not all that water proof. And apparently not all drafting vellums are created equal. The Tombow markers beaded up on this vellum. I tested out several of my dad’s vellums and some must have more of a plastic component. So here’s the disaster.
That’s a far cry from what I ultimately want to get to.
I did a trial coloring as well as some trial stitching. What I’m finding most difficult is matching the green of the siding. An online color picker pegs it as gray. So it’s a very grayed green.
This is the closest I’ve come to matching it on this trial. It’s a combination of a green and a gray marker that are blended together. I can’t find the perfect marker. It’s amazing how many greens there are and how none of them match what I need. I did just order a Copic green gray marker so I’ll see if it works out.
So I’ve bought some more Faber Castell India ink markers and will trace the house on the vellum again. And I will use the less plastic vellum. And hopefully things go better this time!
Have you ever had a disaster? How did you recover?
Thanks for reading.
Chris
You seem to be coping fine after the 'disaster'. Learning which tools didn't work and starting over. I can't really recall a disaster or maybe I'm blocking it out. I did have to chop off the bottom of a wall hanging because the chalk line wouldn't come out. I guess, like you, cope and move on. After all it's only fabric!
ReplyDeleteYour process is confusing me quite a bit. I did not realize how much of it involved markers rather than fabric. As for personal disasters, one that comes immediately to mind is when I was fusing "bubbles" onto a mostly finished quilt top. The bubbles were cut from a synthetic fabric and I was doing this while the quilt was on the design wall. I remembered I had one of those mini-irons with the small triangular tips that would be more convenient and precise to use than even my small travel iron. But I'd used it so little I wasn't aware of how hot that tip got, the settings unclear, and that first bubble melted before my very eyes! I don't remember exactly how I "fixed" it but I did, enough that I doubt if anyone would notice it wasn't identical to the other bubbles (fused without disaster) but my eye could always tell it wasn't quite the same. I guess you are either the type to toss and start over or the type that comes up with a work around.
ReplyDeleteWow, how absolutely talented you are!
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