I forgot to mention that I got an image of a tree from 123RF, an online site that gives royalty free images for a low cost.
I used that image and tried it in Photoshop. I put colour on the leaves and trunk, then put in some backgrounds. I tried a few. Here is one, not quite how the final piece ended up but it gave me the overall perception that my idea would work.
My idea is about how we perceive things, influenced by what is around them. Did I say that the theme of the call for entries is Vision 2020? Anyway, I love the way that background colours change our perception of other colours. So the leaves are all the same colours/fabric in each tree but the differing backgrounds change how we perceive them.
I tried some fabrics I had for the trunks but realised that I don't actually have that many browns, especially ones that don't have other colours in them that would have distracted from my idea.
Off to GJ's again! (I am trying to use what I have and not buy more but that wasn't going to work this time.)
I bought 25cm of 3 browns. The warmest one worked best. I used some little bits to double-check.
Then I Vleisofixed (new verb!!) the selected fabric and cut out 5 of the tree shapes. They are all the same, or almost the same. It is very hard to cut them all exactly!
I ironed them on to the background.
Then came the tedious job of cutting out the leaf shapes, using the same colours for each tree.
Then sewing them on!! I tried to cut them the same and place them the same but there are some slight differences. There is even a deliberate change in the number of each colour on one of the trees - Spot the Difference!!
I say tedious but I was very glad to have something that needed some concentration and removal from the real world. The real world is not great at the moment, especially if you live in the east of Australia (with apologies to those Australians not in the east but still suffering from fires. And now floods.).
If you want to read a very interesting account of how Brenda selects the final pieces, go here. She actually had to eliminate her own piece!!
2 comments:
Thanks for sharing your design and construction process. It is a relief to be diverted by games such as Spot the Difference in these weird pandemic times. Who knew how 2020 would turn out?!
Thanks Brenda, I am disappointed that the exhibition won't be shown yet but, in the midst of all this chaos, it is good to keep looking at the ones that are being revealed on your blog.
I had forgotten about it for a while, what with the AQC being cancelled.
It was good to be doing the thinking, just hope I can keep up the enthusiasm for more challenges in the coming months.
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