I have new artwork on my wall and I love it! It’s Sea Star, created for me by my good friend, Jo-Ann Jensen. Here it is installed in my hallway. Click on any image for a larger view I love this location. The colors look great together and this is a spot where it will [...]
My good friend, Jo-Ann Jensen, is a talented fiber and mixed media artist. She’s particularly adept at batik and various fabric dyeing techniques. So, I was delighted to recently preview her latest class, Double Vision. Since a picture’s worth a thousand words, let me show you what we did. First, we each created a fabric collage [...]
I’ve finally decided on a name for my series of silk pieces: Sketching with Silk. (Each one is a fabric interpretation of a recent sketch.) Here’s the latest piece, Sketching with Silk #3. It measures 9″ x 36″. Click for a larger image. You can see a larger image of this quilt, along with a [...]
Here’s the sketch for the third tall and skinny silk quilt, on the right. Click any image for a larger view. And here’s an in-progress detail shot. Isn’t the silk gorgeous? I love it! Ellen Lindner
My small art quilt group, the Dirty Dozen Fiber Artists, issued a challenge in which the proportions of the resulting pieces must be tall and skinny (at least a 4:1 ratio.) I made my challenge piece and found that I really liked this proportion. I began to have many ideas about fitting things into this [...]
