As we started craft night I realized I would need to come up with my own idea of something since I don't have a household that needs an assignment type of chart. Here's what I decided on....'olelo no'eau...Hawaiian sayings....this one is from the Baibala (Bible) in Corinthians. I used the Cricut to cutout the vinyl letters and although a professional sign maker told me the layering should go dark to light--when I did the first round of cuts the layering wasn't working for me. I decided on the large letters in the background ("LOVE IS..") to be light and the next layer to be darker. After I was finished (and getting those darn letters straight is more of a laughing matter than anything else) I thought it needed more. As I've been researching Hawaiian tattoo patterns and their meanings I found a combination that I myself would have on my body (some place where the sun don't shine on it). This is the sketch step. It is all that I have time for just now. In a few days I will handpaint in the details. I like it a lot. It's about 12 " x 24 ". Noe says I should sell these for twenty bucks!
