Finding Zen

Still working on the peacock pillow! Prints to follow?

So I had this drawing of the peacocks and now I think I'm going to keep working on it for a print or two. I've been working on the pillow - and picked up some beautiful gold and silver metallic fabric paint to add just slight touches of color to the work in progress. THE PAINT IS AMAZING. It's not too bold or gaudy and it has these gorgeous rainbow pin-point sized specks in it! Just enough! I love it! Plus, it paints on smooth with no clumps. Anyway, so I added those touches and sewed the drawings onto the pillow this time... the pictures below are of the progress so far. I have yet to sew the front and back of the pillow together - so if it looks wrinkled or strange, that's why!

My new sewing machine!

Say hello to my new Brother sewing machine! It's computerized and regularly sells for over $160.00. Thanks to ebay, I got mine for only $85.00! This is really going to help me in the upcoming weeks. Time to speed up this process! I can't wait to get it in a week and play around with it. Hopefully, I can remember how to use one.

The Peacock ... destroyed!

Here are some pictures for you to see of my peacock pillow I'm currently having fun working on... I'm trying something different with this one... A lighter material with the drawing on it, over the darker base fabric for the pillow cover. It'll have a more rugged and ruffled in terms of feathers (!) cut and sewn look between the two materials - but with the drawings over them will give a purposeful, pretty edge. We'll see if this works out the way I'm hoping it will. Take a look...

Workin' hard...

So, it seems that all I've been doing lately is getting ready for the Second Storie Indie Market...I've been illustrating and reproducing prints like crazy, while sewing and illustrating pillows at the same time - all by hand! I don't have a sewing machine or a gocco printing system, which I am desperately in need of for fast reproducing. Here are a few pictures to preview what I will be debuting at the event this year! These pictures are from my owl theme and some "crow" work. Enjoy!

Nutcracker inspired drawings...

Some nutcracker inspired elements which I am planning to collaborate into some upcoming designs/prints...

Crow Paper Patterns!

So I've been inspired by these pesky crows that seem to arrive in the city of Buffalo in Autumn and live in our dead trees through the winter until Spring. They are very noisy - and at a thousand deafening "caws" per second, you'd be irritated too! New York State has actually passed a law that allows you to kill these birds, because they are the number one bird breed to carry disease and the bird flu and are pesky with their nasty demeanor and loud noises. Anyhow, they inspired me a bit, so I drew one. Then played around with it to create a dizzying pattern or two! Fun with crows, take one! Click on the image to see it in full scale and detail!