“Eye Spy”, digitally printed fabric and hand embroidery. Cotton fabric, rayon & silk thread. 8″ x 8″.
I made this piece to donate to a fundraiser for the art center in the city where I grew up. They have an anonymous auction every year where artists donate pieces but you don’t know which artist belongs to which piece until the end. So I had to wait until after the event to show this off. The owl is one of the education owls for the U of MN Raptor Center program. He was very photogenic. The “eyes” design I drew digitally and the “feathers” are a pencil sketch that I scanned. Printed at Spoonflower. I then went in and embroidered feathers on top in shiny silk and rayon threads, so it has a little depth and shimmer. You may recognize the design from a skirt I made a while back; I liked it so well I decided to play around with using it in other formats.
Thank you for supporting the arts in RC!