Mixed Media Knitting & Painting Exhibition

The past 3 months I and my dear friend Penelope Teapot have been working on ideas for an art exhibition.Which we hopefully would like to see happening by the end of this year.Sara is the best knitter and crafter i have ever met.You should follow her from the link above.
The exhibition is to be a mixed media of painted canvases and textile ie knitting, crochet, sewing etc.We had this idea to attach fabric and knitted things to the canvas.For example the finished picture i painted of Sara Teapot, which is actually an acrylic painted version of the same picture i painted in coffee a few months back (check older posts)..In the picture she has her hands up knitting a scarf.So we came up with this idea to replace the painting of the knitted scarf with an actual knitted scarf still on the knitting needles which could be glued to the canvas.Then using another canvas i can draw the hands and cut them out and have them holding the needles.So basically its an acrylic painting of Sara Teapot knitting a real scarf...cool idea amirite?

So we decided on some colors .These were chosen by Sara.As we both new we wanted pastel colors so it was just a matter of which ones Sara felt inspired to knit with.She decided on pink, blue and cream.Or as i call them "kawaii ice cream colors'.

So Pretty :)

                                                 

 

This is what you call professional tension

                     
This is the portrait that this beautiful example of professional crafting will be attached to.

Step1: pencil sketch and first layer of skin tone

Step2: Building up the skin and hair color and tone

I always leave the eyes till last.As adding the eyes is when a painting becomes alive.

Step4: Buy a new camera :S

Step5: seriously...new camera !

Step 6 : Give Life

We have since changed our idea so that now I am to paint another portrait.this time of my self.and the knitted scarf will hang down to this canvas either underneath or at the side of,and be wrapped round my portraits neck.
Keep your eyes peeled for more updates and creations for this exhibition.Eventually we are hoping to be selling all of it.
Thanks
Bob