After getting started on two big leaf quilts, things went pretty smoothly. (The photos in this post show the left quilt.) Having previously drawn the design on a large piece of muslin, I auditioned which green to use where. Can you believe I had to buy MORE fabric? Very unexpected. Here’s the final arrangement of…
From the Ellen Lindner 1st Edition Art Adventure Dictionary: art-ing, v. the act of experimenting in an artful way Arting is just what I did on a long cross-country flight. These were the supplies I took with me: InkTense blocks, portable water filled brushes, latex gloves, a glue stick, and my sketch book.* First, I tried to…
Have you tried InkTense pencils and blocks yet? They’re water soluble ink in either pencil or block form and I’ve been seeing them on all sorts of quilts. I got a chance to play with the blocks recently and they were a ton of fun. My first experiment was to test their “smear-ability,” or how…