Lyric Kinard recently issued a Reality Warp challenge on her blog. Since I love challenges I thought I’d try my hand at this one. This is my finished piece.
How this challenge works is you start with an item – in this case it was a scissors. Taking your first piece of tracing paper, trace around the scissors.
Now place #2 tracing paper on top of this first one and again trace around the scissors moving it around. Once traced, erase what you don’t want.
You can see that I had erased the handles in my first drawing. I decided when tracing #2 I didn’t want to include the handles.
Now place #2 under #3 and trace again.
Again, you can erase anything you don’t want in your image.
Now place #3 under #4 and trace again.
You can go on and on with this, but I stopped after four. Here is the final image.
I scanned this into my Portrait and cut the image out of card stock to use to cut out the fabric.
I decided I wanted to use three of these images for my piece. I used three of my favorite dyed pieces. And here is another picture of my entry.
It was fun to see what everyone did with this challenge and how different they all were. Here is the online exhibit of all of the entries and the winners here.
I really loved this challenge. I also loved that I actually completed a project instead of just showing a process. And as those of you who’ve been with me for awhile you know that my 2015 word is completion. I’m really working to complete stuff this year instead of just playing with the process.
I’ll definitely do this again with other item. Thanks to Lyric for this opportunity and this fun challenge.
Beautifully done! It’s always exciting to see how every person comes up with something completely unique in this exercise. I hope some of your readers try out the challenge and share it with you!
-Lyric
Lyric, Thanks. I did notice mine was quite simple compared to the rest. It was fun and I sure will be doing it again. Thanks again for the challenge.
I like what you’ve done, and your colors too! Can you explain why you had to keep adding sheets of tracing paper after each tracing, rather than doing it all on one piece?
LOVE this, both the challenge and your inspiration from it! What a marvelously creative exercise, and what a great end result!
Ellen, Thanks!
Kathleen, Thanks. Those was the directions from Lyric. You probably could just use the same sheet. Doing it this way showed the progress from scissors to the final design.