My piece, Caring, has just won Best of Show in a local exhibit. How nice! At 40″ high, this piece is nearly life-sized. To enhance the message I’ve included little thoughts throughout. He thinks, “I rely on you.” She thinks “I’m here for you, you can count on me,” and so forth. This piece is part…
My friend, Marilyn, taught our fiber art group how to make fabric books. Hers were lovely, with pale pages, lots of embellishments, and amazing contents. I had just whacked off a good bit of an already quilted quilt and thought that piece would make a good start for the cover. This is what it looked…
“Deconstructed Screen Printing.” That’s a mouth full isn’t it? Perhaps the alternate term is a little more self-explanatory: “Breakdown Printing.” This technique uses thickened dyes applied with screen printing and it often yields extraordinary results. Like this (detail shot.) Don’t you love the squiggly irregular shapes and “halos?” You probably know about screen printing…
“Sale price: $128.75 (or trade for organizing a computer desktop exactly how I would do it.)” Pricing is just one of the creative examples in this fiber art exhibit.
Well, after LOTS of trial and error, trouble shooting, and rearranging, I finally finished my latest abstract piece, When Fuchsia Came to Play. A detail shot of the fabrics – most of them dyed by me. I showed you my plans for rearranging in an earlier post. As part of that, I whacked 7+” off the…
My magazine paper collage, Three Cherries, is now complete and I’m very happy with it! I love the texture that the text of the pages adds. Cool, right? This technique is super easy: spread/paint matte medium on your surface, add a little bit of torn paper, and smooth on another layer of medium. The only tricky…
Don’t you enjoy finding little unique aspects of the places where you travel? If so, you’ll definitely want to visit the REAL, original Mast General Store the next time you’re in the vicinity of Boone, NC. Although there are lots of retail shops called “Mast General Store” in the area, they can’t begin to compare…
Inspired by the work of Derek Gores, I decided to make a glued collage with magazine pages. I’ve done this before on a small scale. This time I moved up to a whopping 16 x 20. This was my inspiration photo. It’s a combination of 3 photos which I manipulated and merged on my computer….
Have you ever finished a quilt and then began to have doubts about it? That happened to me with this quilt. I was happy with it and began to quilt it. But, you know, quilting is a slow thing and it gives you time to think. I slowly began to suspect that the quilt just…
After recently starting a new abstract quilt, I entered the exciting and frustrating world of trial and error. I deviated from my drawn design right away, due to the size of my favorite fabrics. And it just kept on from there. These photos represent maybe a third of the things I tried. As always, I…