Batik

For our next assignment, we were asked to first of all draw realistic drawings of something we would find in nature.

Then we were supposed to draw a "stylized" version of the same thing that we might find in nature.  Here's my stylized drawings of butterflies  (I really hate the top one!)

 

We were then supposed to use some of our stylized drawings in a repeating pattern on fabric using the ancient Indonesian art form called batik that you can learn more about here.

I liked the idea of glue, but I already knew of something that would work better.  I do vinyl lettering for a living and I knew from some 4-H projects that my sister did that vinyl would work well instead of glue.  I created a butterfly and flower design digitally.  I actually decided somewhere in the process of creating it that I would like to turn this into a pillow cover.  Here's the digital mockup:

 

  But somewhere along the way, I decided I wanted more color than this and here is the main panel of my future pillow:

 

I still intend to make it into a pillow.  I have the fabric for it and everything!  But I haven't had time to do it yet.