I made a few small art pieces with bees on flowers several years ago. A recent sale of a couple of them led me to wanting to paint a few more. I have hundreds of pictures of bees on flowers, and it was hard to narrow it down to the ones that I thought would look good as art pieces. Here are 2 that I landed on:
The technique that I use for this kind of art quilt is to trace the details of the picture using a light box. I don't draw the background, though. That part comes with the painting of the blurry details. Here are the tracings of the photos:
Next, I took the tracings to my favorite print shop in Portland and had the tracings enlarged so that they would be 12" on the long side. That seems to be a size that is attractive to buyers.
I hope to show you some progress on the actual pieces in the next post.
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