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Archive for December 20th, 2008

Working in a Winter Wonderland

Saturday, December 20th, 2008

snowyday

This is what it looked like outside today, but I felt like this:

heh

I had so much fun in my studio.

My first item of business was to make a screen for the glue to add foil to the dome. This is the best way to foil, using a stencil or some other method to manage the glue. I wanted to just do some highlights. Here is the screen and the glue test on muslin.

domescreen

Here is the dome photo after I trimmed it and glued it to felt batting.

domeslicesmerged

Here is the test foil:

foilingtest

Looks good to me. Here is the real deal. You can see that I have started quilting the wall.

foileddome

I finished theĀ  Bet Sha’an ruins piece. I decided that I did not want to sandwich it with batting so I painted some canvas for the background.

paintedcanvas

Here is the piece finished: stitched to the canvas with some thread painting.

batshannoncanvas

All photos are clickable. You can see more snow photos on my Flickr site.