Still testing one of my blog features. Here’s a little eye candy in appreciation for putting up with this.
This is Carefree, on of my favorite pieces. It features my son and two of his cousins skipping down my parents’ farm road.
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Ellen Lindner
Like I said, painting fabric is more challenging than it looks. Especially if you use sort of thick paint to get hard edges, as I did. I wanted to create two coordinating fabrics: one with an allover pattern of sorts, and the other with large scale high contrast patterning. It was this second one that…
After altering the background of my quilt, so it didn’t completely copy the sketch, I took a different approach as I added the various elements. I decided to copy them fairly closely, but to give myself PLENTY of latitude when altering them. This is the sketch. And this is the background. I added the two…
Did you notice anything different about my newsletter and blog? Both have new headers, each with a new head shot. Yippee! (It was WAY overdue.) I had the photo taken by Bonnie McCaffery, while in Houston. She took about 100 and I picked this one, (even though I wasn’t sold on the background.) So, I…
Rollins College, in Winter Park, FL has a beautiful campus on the edge of a lake, with huge oak trees. It also has Cornell Fine Arts Museum, which I visited for the first time recently. While looking for the museum, we ended up in an art building with a display of student work in the…
Here’s my latest quilt, Happy Family I’m REALLY happy with it and I hope you like it, too. As you can see, I added three loose circles, to add interest. Since there are three members of my immediate family, and because the colors are so upbeat, I decided to name it Happy Family. I got carried away…
This past week I went to a wonderful 3-day workshop with Elizabeth Barton. I’ve long admired her ability to simplify a design and to then interpret it in dramatic, high-contrast, colors. Our class supply list included several inspiration photos. I was familiar enough with Elizabeth’s work to know that a landscape image would work well….
It works! Thanks!