I belong to a wonderful group of art quilters, called Dirty Dozen Fiber Artists. We try to have some sort of exhibit every year and we often have a group challenge as the “entry fee” for participation. On several occasions we’ve used a photo as our inspiration, with all of us using the same image. We’ve had some very interesting results with this approach.
Here’s one from around 2007, I think. We purposely chose a rather busy photo, knowing that different people would be intrigued by different things. We wanted lots of options and this photo from Maui did the trick. Photo credit Ruth Anne Parker
The resulting quilts from this challenge were pretty amazing.
Ruth Anne Parker
Peggy Strauchman
Peg Horsfield
Paula Ferguson
Barbara Bilbo
Marylin Salvador
Mary Dyer
Jill Brown
My piece, Tropical Fruit
Elizabeth King
Diane Smith
Can you believe how different they all are?
The reason I’ve been thinking about challenges is because we have another one going on right now. Watch for my next post, in which I’ll show you the inspiration image, along with additional results from other challenges.
Ellen Lindner
P.S. There’s lots of information about the Dirty Dozen on this blog and my old one. Both have search functions at the top right, so you can easily search for Dirty Dozen.
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