Bow Project: Line Drawing

For my Objects project I chose a bow, something very important and meaningful to me. Not only do they signify innocence and beauty, but I feel naked without one in my hair. For the line drawing, I made a simple, elegantly graphic drawing of a bow:

and cut out a stencil with an Exactoknife. I loved the way it looked already, but I wanted to reverse the colors (and Mrs. Parker wanted something with more effort). Originally I wanted to do the bow on a plain black skirt, but my attempt with sponging fabric paint came out entirely too gloppy.

So I just got some spray paint so the bow would have defined edges. The first few tries were not so good, but..

The one at the top turned out best. It has its imperfections, but I enjoy them; the paint spray gives it almost a shading effect. Mrs. Parker once told me to work with my mistakes, so I am, and I like the result.

It really does look nicer in real life...unfortunately it does not photograph very well.
Here is the lovely model! I used a different bow for each project...

This project was done on black paper with "Shock White" spray paint by Montana Cans.