I look Better With Braids!

Someone told me today, he is glad my braids are back on. He looked at me, gave me a kiss on the cheek and said I look pretty. I said thank you!

I look Better In A Fro!

Someone told me today she likes my Angela Davis fro. She was happy to see me. Thank God, I no longer have the braids. She was thinking about the weight on my head, they must have been heavy . I said no and she replied, oh!

I look Better In A Ponytail!

Someone told me today that I look better on a ponytail. Yeah, that's right, a ponytail. Case closed. The customer is always right, right?! But wait, hold your horses right there missy, who's talking to you horsy?! I heard the tail begging me to please not put him on a corner, oops my bad, on a pony. So, I didn't. I let him be, free as a cucumber to rejoice his glory. So there, he is a tail in a pony and feeling great about it. And... Because I am happy!

Just Me In The Mood + Face

Guess who? I love her face and next thing I know, I began sketching it. Hope I did her right!

The Making Of Crazy About Face

It begins with a sketch somewhere. I am known to not discriminate. I sketch wherever I can lay my hands on; there may be on a piece of paper, a napkin, a leave, whatever...

The sketch is then blown up at Kinkos and traced into fabric. I use cotton but have also used silk, one of the most strenuous fabric to work on.

Now, this is what I consider to be one of the most complex of the steps, the selection of the colors. I seldom use the basic color. I must confess, I never select them in advance, never sit to arrange them beforehand. It is just not me. The color combination comes in tandem as I move along. Sometimes, they are painted on so to harmonize, others are situated "as asked". You will see what I am referring to later. They are always mixed to create my own color. So, the motto, no one piece is the same because the colors can never be recreated. They could but a hue will be a tad altered somewhere.

I was drawn first to the leave, why I don't know. I just did since it is in the middle. The color was later replaced with a more suitable green. 

I did not put much thought into these three colors. They harmonized so perfectly that everything else took off from there. They served as a base and the remainder of the colors were worked around them. 

The face begins to take shape. Other colors are introduced. 

Much of the face has been done but clearly, there is just something wrong with this picture. It is too heavy, dusky and not gracious at all.

Yes, his nose is no longer brown but placid. What a difference a nose makes?

Add the lining.

Tack and sew all the layers, there are at least three, together.

And voila. You got yourself a 64"x37" tapestry!

Drawing Is My Religion

I intended to pay attention to the Reverend, my religion professor, lecture‘s but it did not always worked. Appreciated the man but the class was boring. At end of the semester, I got the artwork and an A. Thank God for book reviews.