Do you know where I was when I took this picture? Click any image for a larger view. I was in Charlotte, NC, at the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art. Don’t you love the mirrored sculpture out front? Especially when seen in front of the old church and “The Green” behind it. Charlotte has many wonderful […]
When I last showed you my Flower Power Challenge piece, it looked like this: Click any image for a larger view. Since then, I’ve made a few changes. I: – over painted the leaves in the bottom right quadrant. – added some pink to the top left quadrant. – rearranged the two pieces on the […]
***Challenge spoiler*** If you’re participating in the flower wagon challenge, you may not want to see my progress. After examining the flower wagon photos, I decided to use just three flowers in my collage. I sketched my idea, below. I noted some elements of the sketch that might need changing and then got started creating […]
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 […]
“Be inspired by your photo, not owned by it.” Sticking to this as our class motto, the ladies in Design Your Own Nature Quilt produced exciting work. This often required working slightly outside their comfort zones, but they were willing to do so, achieving great results. Donna used a photo of two Trillium. She rearranged them within her […]
On my second day in Sarasota, I taught Design Your Own Nature Quilt to a great group of women. This is my favorite class to teach because the students gain a lot of skill and confidence. However, getting there can be slightly intimidating since the students put several new concepts to work. Therefore, the class […]
I was worried that the stems for my little collage might be too chunky for the petal/flower shapes. I auditioned the combination and got this: Just as I suspected. It looks more like birthday candles than foliage. (And the colorful flowers will need a much better arrangement, as well.) So, back to the drawing board […]
After making good progress on my cosmo commission, (on live TV,) it was time to tweak some of the original flower petals and to add a few more. Click image for larger view. Because my original sketch included one or more white flowers, I did some experimenting with that. I liked these little spiky shapes […]
I’ve been working on a commission piece, featuring cosmos. I started with this computer sketch: Since this piece is only about a foot square, I was able to use a lot of my scraps. First, I used them to create the black background. Then, I tore fabrics to create rows of fuschia on the left. […]
