The ladies in my Grow with the Flow class learned a lot and got such excellent results! Here’s Eldora with her quilt. Didn’t she do a great job? First, they learned how to create an ombre background, with a horizon line. These were pretty to start with, but then the students added skinny accent pieces and everything…
The students in my “Design Your Own Nature Quilt” class did really excellent work. Their task was to be INSPIRED by their photos, but not to actually copy them. Eldora had a beautiful photo showing a ton of beautiful flowers, so she wisely cropped it way down. She did a great job depicting the foliage…
I recently taught two classes. One was “Design Your Own Nature Quilt,” and the ladies did a great job. The supply list includes artistic courage and they did not disappoint. After a morning learning about design and preparing a sketch, the students start creating their fabric collages in the afternoon. It can be a little…
In my last post I told you how I’m giving away quilts to my nieces and nephews, and I thought you might like to see what they picked. When David bought his first house I gave him these three “on indefinite loan.” But, they’re now officially his. They look great hanging above his bed. Amy…
My inventory of quilts has gotten just WAY too big! I estimate that I have 250 in the house. Granted, some of them are only 5 x 7, but most are poster sized or larger. Of course, they’re not all master pieces, but they’re still nice enough to hang as art. So, I decided to…
My slightly abstracted Bird of Paradise quilt is now complete. I intended for this piece to be more abstracted. Therefore, I pieced it, thinking that this would automatically simplify the shapes. Well, apparently my piecing skills are better than I thought, because I found the shapes to be almost perfect. So, I purposefully sliced into…
You may remember this piece that I made last year, Adrenaline Rush. I liked it pretty well, but I never felt like it really sang. So, when my art group had a critique session, I took this quilt for comments. As it turns out, the group liked it very well, except for one thing. I took…
This post is a continuation of things we did in a color class I taught. This one didn’t publish promptly, so you might want to read the other (June 11th) post first. After learning about warm and cool colors, we learned about opposite colors and similar colors. These are easy to identify by looking at…
The Dunedin Fine Art Center, in Dunedin, FL, is currently showing FOUR fiber art exhibits. One features work by Hannah O’Hare Bennett. She showed some flat wall pieces, but I was especially intrigued by her little 3D manipulations. Here you can see lots of small canvasses arranged in a grid. They have quite a presence…
My quilt, Daydream, recently won a Second Place award at an exhibit in Vero Beach, FL. The exhibit was to celebrate the gallery’s 15th anniversary, so the pieces were supposed to be joyful and upbeat. I thought this piece fit the bill and, apparently, the judge did as well. This was a mixed media exhibit, so it…