spn J2 Big Bang ART POST

[meesasometimes]

YAY!!! My first Big Bang art post EVER!!! So exciting. I was thrilled to be able to pick up this charming, lovely, dark story by i_o_r_h_a_e_l called A Little Bear and His Wolf. Jensen is an adorable troubled shifter bear and Jared is his concerned hot shifter wolf teacher and it reads to me like a J2 Grimms fairytale and how wonderful is that?

Never having done art before I wanted to just play to my strengths and do what I know. So I designed and stitched the title banner on linen and went for that fairytale feeling.

Then I decided to create these companion portraits, which I stitched in black, then watercolored, put on fabric backgrounds and added the text from i_o_r_h_a_e_l 's story. I had a great time working on these. I hope that shows.

I know everyone says, if only they had more time...lol...how true, there is a scene that involves cake that I would have started on next. Alas.
Thank you so much to the wonderful i_o_r_h_a_e_l , a perfect first writer for me who just let me go at it and was all in from the
beginning for whatever wacky thing I created :) ♥  And thank you to my sweetheart big_heart_june who gets my crazy messages and loves me anyway and to meus_venator who gave me the pep talk and hand holding I so desperately needed for my first foray out. And thank you everyone for inspiring me to just jump right in and have fun doing what I love and sharing it with you ♥

And now that I've posted, I can't wait to get started on the next project and catch up on some Big Bang fic...can you all believe I haven't read a single one yet. Geesh.

Comments

[tebtosca.livejournal.com]

WOW! This is so cool and incredibly unique. Great job :D

[meesasometimes.livejournal.com]

awwwww, thank you :) It was great fun to work on.

[spanishbaroque.livejournal.com]

This art is amazing and I love it THE MOST! Bear Jensen looks so cuddly, I just want to cuddle him. I love the mixed media approach and you totally capture that fairy tale feeling. The title embroidery is just <3.

[meesasometimes.livejournal.com]

thank you so much, bear!Jensen is giving out free cuddles, you're in luck :) I just had this idea in my head when I read iorhael's summary and ran with it, I'm happy that it's coming across. The mixed media thing was sort of a happy accident when I was trying to add text digitaly and I had that idea. It just worked I think♥

[aire-blair.livejournal.com]

Your wolf and bear are gorgeous, but your linen banner is AMAZING! I'm totally in awe of it!

[meesasometimes.livejournal.com]

*blush* thank you so much.

and bonus points for using a stitching icon :)

[alycat.livejournal.com]

I made an actual "OH MY GOD!" squee at seeing this art. I love embroidery and t see it done as art is just pure brilliance.

And that you designed it yourself? It's amazing! Fantastic job here and you made me want to pick up one of my half-finished stitch or knitting projects again.

The banner is simply perfect, I love the feel of it!

[kelios.livejournal.com]

Oh, these are fantastic! What a great idea :)

[firesign10.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD!!! That title banner is amazing!!!! It perfectly gets that fairy-tale feel, and the stitching itself is just gorgeous!!! (I used to embroider and cross-stitch, but it's been a long time.) The other two pieces?? Also beautiful! I love how creative and imaginative you were making these, with the combination of watercolor, stitching, and fabric. Really lovely work!!!

[galwithglasses.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous stitches. What a great design. For some reason, the little stone path really caught my attention and is adorable. I love the way the bear is sitting in the second picture. All three are clever and creative and you've done lovely work.

[meus_venator]

OMG I LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT Gives me total SHIVERS up my spines. It's GORGEOUS!!!!!!! I could totally see a children's book being done in this style. Or buy art panels of these.

THE BEARRRRRRRR Sitting all lonely on those crazy round dot pattern. And the Wolf all tilted eyes and pretty. And the main banner/book cover is so welcoming. I want to curl up and read this forever.
Such a great job and I love i_o_r_h_a_e_l's writing.

Job well done hon! You deserve SEVERAL cookies!

[quickreaver.livejournal.com]

Oh my golly, theses are adorable! I love it when artists think out of the box!

[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

That is absolutely amazing, so much detail and you can just feel the attention and love that went into creating it. What a genius and very novel idea. Don;t think I've ever seen cross stitch bb art before! :)

[confuzed.livejournal.com]

Now this is nifty art! The wolf is just so adorable.. :)

[jimbobjoe.livejournal.com]

This art is just so freakin' cool! EMBROIDERY!

[fufaraw]

What a marvelous, unique idea of embroidery as story art! And how well done, too. The other art is well done, but the stitchery is just awesome as an idea, and in execution.

[whiskygalore.livejournal.com]

I haven't had a chance to read the fic yet, but I had to let you know how much I loved the art!! It is freaking awesome! It's such a great idea, and so brilliantly done. The affect you achieved is stunning! The title banner on linen is gorgeous; it looks like it belongs on an old book of fairytales and the two portraits are beautiful, I adore the colours in the backgrounds.

Great job, well done and thanks for sharing all your hard work :D

xx

[ephermeralk.livejournal.com]

YAY. YOU'RE SO COOL. I love your embroidery, bb. Really beautiful stitching. It's so sweet, and wonderful, and I love embroidery so much. It's ridiculously fun.

WONDERFUL!!

[ashtraythief.livejournal.com]

One of the things i love about artists in our fandom is how endlessly inventive they are. This is no exception.

I am utterly amazed by your stitching talent (can you call it that?). I did a bit of needle work when I was younger and wow, this is really amazing! And the designs are beautiful and adorable and the colors and the whole thing *flails*

This is really, really good *nods*

[i-o-r-h-a-e-l.livejournal.com]

You of course know how I LOVE your art from the way I got all SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. :D Still I want to tell you again (and again and again) that it's just such a great, unique, one of a kind idea of pieces of art done for Bigbang. I thank you once more for picking up my story (thank you SO much for your generous words for it) and creating lovelylovelylovely thing for me.

*hugshugshugs*

[cassiopeia7.livejournal.com]

♥ WOW! This is absolutely AMAZING! The wolf and bear are beautiful, but the banner . . . oh, wow, the banner is incredible! Fantastic artset, bb, just fantastic. Brava! ♥

How long did this take?

[harrigan.livejournal.com]

This is *ingenious*! You are SO talented!

[beelikej.livejournal.com]

Hot damn, this is cool! When you told me about the stitching, I was already excited but I never imagined how far you would take it; absolutely stunning design, bb. The mixed media pieces are fabulous, such creativity, very inspirational:) Welcome to the BigBang Art Club, I hope you join us again for other projects. *chinhands and scrolls up and down and up and down*

[brutti-ma-buoni.livejournal.com]

This is *amazing*! You've got great skills.

[dimeliora.livejournal.com]

MEESA MEESA MEESA!!!

How gooooorgeous these are! Oh my god! And what an original idea to stitch them! It fits the idea of fairy tale so well and it's soooooo pretty! Congratulations on an amazing job because oh my god woman it's BEAUTIFUL!!!