lesson three and screen print

I took one of the patterns from the cut outs of lesson one, traced it to make a line drawing then cut two stencils. The first one was screen printed using multiple colours of ink. Not a good scan, (the background fabric is lime green).

This is the two stencils over printed

The image on the right is part of the print. It is starting to have possibilities.

I don't know whether this is what we were supposed to do with exercise three, but I have decided to move on to four.

somewhat better

And true to what our elders used to say -practice makes perfect. i took another shape traced it (second row right) and started playing sort of mindlessly. The drawings, if one can call them that, reminded me of jewelry drawings. And the outcome was somewhat better than the previous try. Goes without saying that the embellished shape is far much interesting than the plain outline shape

neki desu

woes

i'm not having much luck with this exercise. Find the results visually boring. Changed the cut out i used from ex#1 and made something new. Still...

Got discouraged and stopped. Let's see if tomorrow i can improve. If not, time to move on.

neki desu

Exercise 3

I decided it was time for me to move on to the next exercise in the book. Exercises 1 & 2 were extremely useful and as a result, I have numerous new quilt designs in my sketchbook. I don't plan to abandon Exercises 1 & 2, but to keep adding to them as I go along. The goal of visual Exercise 3 is to alter flat, solid shapes into line drawings. I started with an 8" square of black paper and randomly cut it with my rotary cutter. I traced a 9 1/2" square onto white newsprint and expanded the square into this design. Then, as the instructions say, I traced it (using another piece of newsprint...easy to see through). As you can see in the tracing below, I used my bendable curve ruler to re-trace the lines. Then, to complete the goal of Exercise 3, I drew patterning within the lines. I plan to use this as a quilt block (or small quilt) and the patterning lines will be my machine quilting lines. Now, I'm stuck on whether to put designs together to make larger quilts or make smaller ones like below. I suppose I can do both.

The line drawing is a bit smeary as I drew it in pencil. Anyone know of a pencil that doesn't smear when you sketch? I even asked in the art store and no one had a clue. Now, I'm off to play with some fabric.

Exercise #3

The next challenge was to trace over the rearranged shapes using a variety of lines and marks. At least this is how I read the description. I wouldn't have gotten that idea from looking only at the example sketches on the page. So I'm wondering if I really did interpret the exercise the way it was written.

My favorite is the last one. I can see it as a quilting sample.