SNOWY OWL IN GEORGIA

Sold my art quilt "Snowy Owl" today.  His new home will be in Georgia!   This guy just spoke to me and is a hard one to sell.  I really loved working on him as well as how it all came together.
Now someone else will love him like I did.

"Snowy Owl"

 "Snowy Owl"

24 1/2" X 23 3/4"

Original Design

Rawedged fused applique

Machine Quilted

March 2013

Working on the Snowy Owl was perfect for me.  I loved the colors and experimenting with his feathers.  I feel I achieved the fluffy lightness of this younger Snowy who still has his camouflage
colors.  He may be fluffy and still a baby, but he is a Raptor and you can see it in his eyes.

Head Lines

He has a head!   I like to put the head shape up first and cut holes for the eyes using the tracing paper as a guide.  Once the holes are in I fuse the eye ball and pupil behind the white fabric.
Then the beak is put on as it is buried in feathers just like the beak on the Barn Owl.  Once that is looking good I start building  the feathers.

Body Building

 Well it has been fun days in the studio because I am locked up here since the workmen are in the kitchen finishing up.   Really can not do much else right now anyway so it has made for some very productive. time.     I made feathers for part of the time and added them one by one to the body.
The center chest feathers have tulle over them to tone them down since they have a lot of downy fluff around them. 

Once again I took it to the machine and quilted each of them.  There will be some highlighting quilt lines still going in but I will wait until his head is on.  He definitely needs his head!

Feet First

 Today I began the owl.  First it is his feet...the furthest from the forefront.
I build them on my teflon sheet.

 Once I trim them they are placed in the right position using my tracing paper sketch as a guide, and fused in place.

 Then I take them to my machine and quilt them.

Results !   Pretty good even if they look funny all by themselves. 

Ghost Image

Okay....here is the owl sketch on top of my stump.....added a couple of reeds, more will or may come but will wait til he is done to decide if it needs more.  Now comes the hard part but as you can see from his face he has built in personality.  I want him to look pudgy and fluffy.  Hope I can pull that off.