Aurora Borealis and Sailboat

 

While participating in a quill-along, one of the group members posted this picture.

I liked it so much that I decided that I would take the challenge to quill it.
Therefore, I proceeded to print it to an 8"x10" (20 cm x 25 cm)  size.

Well, being a lake or pond scene I thought it needed something else. After thinking for quite a while I decided that a sailboat would be appropriate

I found the perfect image of a sailboat in one of my church’s bulletin. So, I cut it out and glued it on the picture with the Aurora Borealis as a background.

To make the sails I first outlined the “veins” with dark gray paper strips:

 I took a full length of a paper strip, and fold it in half.

Glue the halves together.

Folded it in half once more.

Glue the halves together. Therefore, I was working with 1/4 strips as a time.

Measure each “vein” and cut the segment.

Glue each segment on the “vein” (black horizontal line).

Hold the “new veins” in place by propping them up with straight pins.

 

After I had all the “veins” ready, I filled in the spaces with marquises or teardrops.

To make this picture I used 5mm wide and 22 cm long paper strips in different colors 

and shapes.

It was a real challenge to come up with the right colors for the Aurora Borealis. I tried several things and finally came up with the solution. I glued 2 different colored paper strips together (pink and orange, blue and teal, dark blue and black). Each color was 11 cm long.

 

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I used a ruler to make sure that I followed a straight line and that I stayed within the boundaries while gluing the shapes on the border.

For the corners I used straight pins to keep the rulers propped up while waiting for the glue to dry,

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Once the picture was finished I wanted to create the Aurora Borealis effect: the stars and the star dust.

To make the stars in the Aurora Borealis and the phosphorescence created by the waves when splashing against the sailboat I used “fairy dust” as created by fellow quiller Diane Boden

To create the effect of the star dust in the Aurora Borealis I used about a half teaspoon of white glitter mixed with an ounce of white glue and then spread it on the surface  using a sponge brush.

Once the glue was dry, it was ready to frame.

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Tree silhouette - mosaic

This tree silhouette is a Quill-Along-Project  that I made following Erin Perkins Curet's instructions and also putting my own spin to it.

 All the paper strips are 6 mm wide and 21.25 cm (17 inches) long. However, each shape is only half a strip long. 

 First I chose my background by making a web-search. This is what I liked. 

 

Trying to come up with something similar to the print, I painted my background with acrylic paint on a 25 cm x 20 cm (10" x 8") canvas.  

As I am not a good artist and did not want to spoil my "work of art", I drew a tree on a white piece of paper to see that I liked its shape and final appearance on the background.

Once I decided that I liked the tree, I cut it out. 

I placed it on my background to find the proper setting.

 

 I traced it onto my background using a permanent marker.

 

I painted the tree black with a permanent marker.

 

Carefully I outlined the tree with a black strip of quilling paper. So that it would be sturdy enough I glued 3 strips together. 

 

I filled the tree using loose closed circles that I shaped as necessary to fill in all the spots. To fill the tree I used 56 strips that were 42.5 cm (17")  long and it took me 3 hours. Unfortunately I forgot to take pictures of this step.

Using the same method, I continued filling the rest of the picture. This took me another 11 hours but I did not count how many strips I used in all. 

 

 Finished!  Work Completed!

 

I finally framed my piece and you can see the final product at the beginning of this tutorial. 

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