{"id":915,"date":"2013-04-07T13:35:43","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T20:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/?p=915"},"modified":"2013-04-07T16:32:57","modified_gmt":"2013-04-07T23:32:57","slug":"on-my-design-wall-dog-portrait-2013-04-07","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/2013\/04\/07\/on-my-design-wall-dog-portrait-2013-04-07\/","title":{"rendered":"On my design wall – dog portrait – 2013.04.07"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve been working on a new dog portrait.\u00a0\u00a0 This is Courtenay, an Airedale Terrier.\u00a0\u00a0 Here’s the starting photo, and the fabrics I plan to use.<\/p>\n

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I used Picasa to crop the photo, then used the ‘posterize’ feature to reduce the number of colors.\u00a0\u00a0 I printed the posterized image and outlined the colors with a Sharpie marker pen.\u00a0 The marker pen shows on the back of the paper which gives me a mirror image to use for tracing onto the fusible web.<\/p>\n

\"Courtenay-cropped,posterized\"<\/a> \u00a0\"Posterized<\/a> \u00a0\"back<\/a><\/p>\n

I took the posterized image to FedEx\/Kinkos and enlarged the front and back to the actual size of the quilt.<\/p>\n

I always start with the face, as that’s the most challenging part – once I’m happy with the fabrics for the face, the rest will be easy.\u00a0 I usually start with the lightest fabrics first then layer the darker fabrics on top.\u00a0 That way the darker fabrics don’t show through the lighter ones.\u00a0 I constructed the face by fusing it to parchment paper then peeling it off when it was complete.\u00a0 Here’s the face and one paw pinned to the full size posterized photo on my design wall.<\/p>\n

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I’ll construct the other paw and rest of the body before I even think about what colors I’ll use for the background.<\/p>\n

Check back in a day or two for more process photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  I’ve been working on a new dog portrait.\u00a0\u00a0 This is Courtenay, an Airedale Terrier.\u00a0\u00a0 Here’s the starting photo, and the fabrics I plan to use. 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