Fabric in my shop

A.tatzelwurm fabric can be ordered from Spoonflower. I chose the drawings I like best and combined them to a pastel-colored, lovely panel of harmless and serene lightness, just right for halloween. Another may be added.

Tatzelquilt

The quilt is painted, ironed and I started quilting. I use another vintage bed sheet as a base.

I applied the paint in the background with a paint knife to get an irregular structure.

Working on fabric again

The time has come to do some fiber art. I made a drawing of the tatzel couple under the moon. The position of the worms shows the shape of Ketu and Rahu, the dragons "who eat the moon" when there is a lunar eclipse. I intend to iron the pencil to fix it, then color the object with fabric paints and quilt it.

It takes two tatzelworms

 

They carried on at night. 

Another Tatzelwurm?

While I was waiting, or: My contribution for Halloween

While my husband was working (Sunday work is an exception), I stayed in the canteen or went for walks. I checked the offers in his company and in the furniture stores in the neighborhood, looking for a nice, small and stable working table, and I guess I found it. Just did not buy it because I wasn't sure if I can still open the balcony door when I put it up in my working corner.
Then I took my sketchbook and worked a little in the canteen until it was time for J to pick me up. He was very tired, but okay, and he will work tomorrow.
When we came home, I took the inch rule and found that there is just enough space for the desired table.

Sketches are digitally colored.

just another picture in a story

Look, Darling, a Girl, and She is as Beautiful as You!

While I was painting...

 ... I tried to keep you entertained with other things until this would be finished. Gouache painting, approx. letter format. The sad story of the end of the Tatzelwurms ancestor. George stabbed him to death and became a hero. This scene is painted from the Tatzelwormic view which explains the color of the aura. No Tatzelwurm ever was named George which is easy to understand.

Do you find yourself sometimes involved in your artwork, thinking of blog reactions in advance? Does it influence/inspire/disturb your working progress? I have a serious problem with rising vanity thru blogging, but addicts can't just stop.

Dad is a babysitter

While Mom is shopping. Gouache, unfinished

Cutting lino

Upcoming creativity can be like the return of one's strength after being sick. As a matter of fact, I caught a little cold on our long walk through Luebeck. 3 hours in the cold wind -- that affected me a bit, but it's over completely. Well, today my lino cut knives attracted me tremendously, and while J had a long nap on the sofa, I cut this one. Printing is a certain problem, I don't have a table for this purpose. But I'll try the kitchen working space.

Tatzelwurms wakening

The.Tatzelwurm jerked up from his bed when he realized that he had forgotten to set his alarm clock. Would be be late? Would his boss bite his head off? Then he remembered that he was the boss, biting off his staff's heads whenever he was in the mood. -- Pen drawing with diluted ink, digitally overdyed.

Ketu and Rahu

This Tatzelwurm, Ketu, tries to swallow the moon. When I had finished this ink drawing, I noticed that its shape resembled the astrological sign for the Lower Moon Node. This is one of two points where the moon crosses the ecliptic. In Indian tradition, lunar + solar eclipses come from the heavenly bodies being eaten by monsters named Rahu and Ketu (the lower and upper Moon Node).
P.S. I thought it would be fun to print this drawing out in b&w and color it with watercolors. But it is boring. I'm disappointed.
P.P.S. Would you like to paint out prints like we all did when we were kids?

The worm is still going strong

There are not only dragons. There is also a Bavarian relative. This time again as an ink drawing on paper. I made a few versions of the same topic, something I rarely did in the past. Is it better to develop a motif or does it contain the risk to get bored and drop the project?
What do you think, how do you work? I used to get bored easily, but not this time. I have plans. Wait and see.
The easiest way to transform it is to color the scene, be it by hand or electronically. I'll try both methods. Then it will possibly go on to be transferred to fabric, either drawn/painted, lino-cut (problem: almost no room for printing) or another easy but more expensive way: To be sent to Spoonflower. A large choice! -- The embroidery got stuck somehow. Too many plans, maybe!

The Tatzelwurm Invasion is on

Here is a nosy red one, not yet finished. This time, the flower is a lotus. I started a try on a print: I made a drawing with ink and a brush and scanned it. I printed the drawing out in black and white, and now I have something I can color with pencils, so it is a print and an original drawing at the same time:
Or I can use water colors.
What do you think? Do you see such a mixture of print and coloring as an original?

In order to play, I can color that thing in the good old electronic way with PhotoShop:

Nocturnal Garden with Visitor

Plants and sky are finished.
The next one will be on a white ground because I think I'll try another fabric design or t-shirt. For cloth printing, the black background is a disadvantage.
Painting plants on a dark ground reminds me of nights under trees. Plants breathe like plants at day-time, but like animals during the night, consuming oxygen, as we do; could it be they sleep at day and are awake at night?

"A Rose is a Rose is a Rose",

said the Tatzelwurm. Now we know why there is such an expression on his face. And we understand that some who are believed to be monsters have a very fine sense for the beautiful things in life. And maybe they are not even monsters.
The painting is not finished yet. Progress is slow due to so many tasks in between.

No Stitching Today

This weekend, I can't go on stitching because of a little cut in my finger, very small though, it will be gone tomorrow. It's okay because it made me paint this: I took a sheet of my beloved black paper and started another tatzelwurm in gouache.
On Saturday, we took a walk in one of the lovely parks in our town. The scene with the artificial lake is very picturesque. In this pavillion, they can buy drinks or rent a boat, there is a public pool, and after its is closed down, people swim in the lake.

Tatzelwurm

The "tatzelwurm" (paw worm) is a mythical animal of Bavaria, the Alpine Nessie. I started a gouache sketch in a limited palette of brick red, slate blue, light purple, copper green, dark aubergine, clay and tangerine.
I'd like to remain rather abstract, in the style of Paul Klee, but I slip into the naturalism trap time and time again.