Recently, I visisted the “Rooted in Traditions: Art Quilts from the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum” exhibit, in Vero Beach, FL. It was my second visit and I enjoyed it as much as the first. The exhibit shows art quilts from the 1970s (or 80s?) forward, sort of an explanation or retrospective of art quilts. Quite a […]
As part of the upcoming Transformations art exhibit, I’ve been paired with poet Marcia Denius. The idea is for us to share our work with one another, get to know one another, and allow the experience to influence new creations. This is being loosely termed collaboration, but we’re not actually working on one another’s pieces. […]
I’ve been busy. Busy cutting and placing fabric for my current collage. As you can see, I’m using a wide variety of yellow fabrics. Using a collage technique means that I cut various shapes for my compositions. That creates SCRAPS! I only keep those that are bigger than my fist, but I have several friends who […]
Finally, we added white charcoal to our tools and learned about shading to create a sense of form or shape. (Yeah, using boxes AGAIN!) As we had done earlier, our instructor had us create quick thumbnail sketches of compositions that we found interesting. (Click for a larger image.) To her credit, she encouraged us to […]
Earlier, I showed you some of the gesture sketches I did in my summer drawing class. (July 28 and forward.) After LOTS of gesture sketches, we finally moved to contour drawing. That is, accurately drawing the edges, or shape, of an item. Since this was much more realistic, my classmates and I also found it to be […]
I had fun finishing up the sample for “Sticky Fingers,” my upcoming glued collage class. In the photo below, I was working on adding a simple cruciform shape to the background. When I was happy with the front, (and after it dried,) I flipped it over and finished the sides and back. This is the […]
I recently mentioned the fun I’m having as I work on samples for a new online class, “Sticky Fingers: Glued Fabric Collage.” This photo shows the background portion finished. (The lose fabric around the edges will later be wrapped around the sides.) Next, I decided on the design – a curvy cruciform shape, which I drew in […]
Previously, I talked about Renee Decator’s process for painting with acrylic paints. Gee, that sounded like fun! So, I pulled out my paints, and gave it a shot. What a blast! I mimicked Renee’s process: 1 – Add texture to the canvas. (I used Golden molding paste.) 2 – Randomly apply opaque colors. 3 – Randomly […]
Not only do I enjoy creating stitched collages, but I also like to make glued ones. The thing that’s really great about them is that they’re fast! Once you compose the piece, it’s done. No stitching, binding, adding hanging sleeves, etc. I love that! Plus, you can easily manipulate tiny little pieces of fabric that […]
For some time now I’ve had the idea of getting my art work onto my luggage tags. So, when I saw a luggage tag project in the 2008 Quilting Arts Gift Magazine, I decided to give it a try. Aren’t they pretty? I made three, and the photo above shows both front and back. (Click […]
