Presenting Jonathan the Lion
Monday, September 19, 2011 at 04:50PM 
What do I like about this piece? I like the way that it is an abstract while still maintaining a figure. When it was finished, I was so pleased to see how my abstract work these last two years is now breaking into my figural art. If I look only at elements of the rug and not the whole piece, I am viewing colors abstractly flowing into each other and tiled against each other. But when I take in the entire rug, not only is a lion clearly in view, but a very particular lion. There is no mistaking that this is a picture of Jonathan the lion at the Houston Zoo.
2011. Jonathan the Lion. Original. 25" by 30". Designed, dyed and hooked by April D. DeConick. Red Jack Palette Wools used: 8-value packs~Hubbard Fig 119; Butterfield 122; Sunkissed Gold 157; Somerset Sunset 104; Goodfellow Yellow 105; Black Orchid 146; Highland Lilac 133; Faune Brown 114; Milkweed 115; Sea Shells 142. Texture packs~Hubbard Fig 119 (value 5 and 8); Sunkissed Gold 157 (value 5); Goodfellow Yellow 105 (value 5); Faune Brown 114 (value 2 and 8).
