I am having  ISSUES.  lol


I continue to work on enlarging "Walking While Black" for the looming exhbition date, and because I did the original piece with encaustic and can't for this show, after spending 26 (yes, TWENTY-SIX) hours  making the background and handstitching down all the letters (because I am afeared that the fused letters will not stay on what with being packed and shipped and unpacked and hung and packed and shipped and unpacked and hung and... etc. for two years)...

I have spent a further 22 hours (so far!) trying and failing at different methods to a: enlarge his face and b: give it the distressed look of the original.  So far, no joy.  I haven't been photographing the process because I have (wrongly) assumed each time that it would work. 

So unfortunately, you can't learn from the carnage.  That said, I brought it to last night's Drunken Quilters meeting and Jennie Wood had some GREAT ideas which we're going to try out at her place tomorrow night.

I promise to photograph that process. 

And then, the large new piece that I was working on has ALSO gone awry. I'll show you pics of that tomorrow... haven't had a chance to upload.

Aiyee!