{"id":6414,"date":"2020-06-29T12:45:25","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T19:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/?p=6414"},"modified":"2020-07-01T12:21:33","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T19:21:33","slug":"clapping-hands-2020-06-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/2020\/06\/29\/clapping-hands-2020-06-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Clapping hands – 2020.06.29"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Have you heard of Ian Berry? He’s an artist who works in the medium of denim jeans – check out his website www.ianberry.org<\/a> to see his amazing artwork.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve been following Ian on Instagram<\/a> and Facebook, and was intrigued by his ‘I Clap For’ project. You can read about the project on this website www.iclapfor.com<\/a>. Recently, I saw that Ian was inviting other artists to make clapping hands for the project, and I decided to participate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I emailed Ian on Friday night saying I would like to participate. He replied, asking if I could have my hands done by Monday – because there are special displays planned for July 5th, the birthday of the UK National Health Service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s nothing like a tight deadline to motivate me, so I spent Saturday designing and creating my 2 pair of hands, and on Sunday I finished them up and emailed my photos to Ian. He animated them, and you can see my clapping hands with many other artists here<\/a> on the website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s how I made my clapping hands. I used Ian’s templates for the hands, which saved me a lot of time. I wanted to use wild colors, so I pulled out a lot of fabrics, and spent an hour or so finding 2 sets of fabric with light, medium and dark values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Auditioning possible fabrics, and checking values<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For each hand, I cut the entire hand from the medium value fabric, then added the shadows and highlights. I used Steam a Seam fusible, which I can finger-press in place. If required, I can reposition the pieces before using the iron to fuse the fabrics together. After cutting and positioning the pieces for the first set of hands, I checked to make sure the values were working. <\/p>\n\n\n\n