Hark, the Gargoyles of Autumn Do-Ci-Do!

Hullo...got some serious brainstorming done today! Yay for productivity. Didn't exactly start work just yet, but I did cut rectangles of burgundy suede to start working on (tomorrow?)...Today, I just sketched and messed around in my sketchbook, thinking about what would look best to me and revisiting what I had worked on briefly the evening before.

I decided to kind of go back to what I worked on in the first part of the project--the sewn heads on muslin squares. But not quite--the content isn't the same, so much as the looping, loose, contour-type sketchy drawing style utilized in the first part, as well as my self portrait sketches. So what I'm going to do is combine Lauren's idea with my own: I'll use the photocopy compositions with the mini-heads to "fill" the rectangle and project, but using gold thread on burgundy suede (which looks fabulous, by the way) to sketch out the compositions, occasionally adding a "real" photocopy cutout of a head painted iridescent gold. It looks pretty cool...at least, in my head. I just have to find a way to transfer the drawings onto the suede and sew in a way that captures the heart of the loose, sketchy style.

In other news, My mom and stepdad came down from New York this weekend to celebrate my late birthday...they're giving my sister and me food money for Egypt, which is great, and I got a lot of other fun stuff. Tomorrow, we're going shopping!

Alright...here're some sketches of my progress:

(This is the format of the whole piece, set on a long piece of moss-green sateen.)
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(And ideally, the product would be the result of a marriage between the left composition and thread, but in a more free style like in the one on the right...I'd add the gold face in, too.)

Night~!