The magic of quilting....or "Hen Party"...almost finished!

BTW, these paintings are showing up cropped on the blog post....grrrr...BUT if you click on the photo of the painting, you should be able to see it all!

 

I quickly painted this group of ladies around a quilting frame...

 

Worked on it and still it troubled me....lots of ways....but color dominance was an issue! Too many divas, I love color and get carried away with it ....and I tend to paint without a thought out plan for each piece...just jumping in and seeing what I create....this has collaged papers to represent quilting fabrics...

Okay, so the pink, busy background had to go...I decided that blue would be my dominate color...

That's better....and now it is close to being finished.....

I think I need to make more smiles! Quilting is fun! A real hen party....sorry guys.

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Meanwhile, I am hard at work on a new painting/collage of hens!

I like this pose...so I prepared a canvas with green and blue textures, some from dry brush and some from monoprint with a gelli plate. Then I placed the chickens in the sandy farmyard....just paint, so far.

Then I looked for papers and fabrics for collage....

The upright hen was given a dramatic eye from a design in some art papers....the "sun" is rice paper spirals,the sandy ground and some of the feathers are more fun rice papers....the I found a fabric from Kaffe Fassett which works in well for the other comb and eye and some in the plumage......still have to finish the palette knife work on both hens....but they are coming along!

Back the the final paintings soon!

 

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The magic of quilting....or "Hen Party"...almost finished!

I quickly painted this group of ladies around a quilting frame...

 

Worked on it and still it troubled me....lots of ways....but color dominance was an issue! Too many divas, I love color and get carried away with it ....and I tend to paint without a thought out plan for each piece...just jumping in and seeing what I create....this has collaged papers to represent quilting fabrics...

Okay, so the pink, busy background had to go...I decided that blue would be my dominate color...

That's better....and now it is close to being finished.....

I think I need to make more smiles! Quilting is fun! A real hen party....sorry guys.

***************

Meanwhile, I am hard at work on a new painting/collage of hens!

I like this pose...so I prepared a canvas with green and blue textures, some from dry brush and some from monoprint with a gelli plate. Then I placed the chickens in the sandy farmyard....just paint, so far.

Then I looked for papers and fabrics for collage....

The upright hen was given a dramatic eye from a design in some art papers....the "sun" is rice paper spirals,the sandy ground and some of the feathers are more fun rice papers....the I found a fabric from Kaffe Fassett which works in well for the other comb and eye and some in the plumage......still have to finish the palette knife work on both hens....but they are coming along!

Back the the final paintings soon!

 

Photos of bags

 

 

 

Learning new techniques...

Here is a look at all the pages in my little Lutradur art book. Made from a single sheet of Lutradur (12"x18"). We start at the back cover....the book is about butterflies as a symbol. the Greek word for butterfly is at the bottom of the page. [Click on any photo and maybe read the quote!]

This page has a dangling "cocoon"....this is the middle of the book with a quote from Emily Dicksinon.

More quotes..... and the front cover.

The book stands on its own and the light comes through the pages!

Mixed Media Collage class continues

Start with a watercolor paper (140lb) painted background (square. mine is 10")

Add small squares of fabric, attach with matte medium, and top with assorted fabric shapes....

Cover with a gesso wash. Remove the shapes from the surface, and see how they masked the gesso from the original fabric.

Cut into 4 smaller squares, add quarter circles of assorted papers and fabrics.....

Wait for next week's lesson on sewing it all together! LOL!

All in process...unfinished...

These collages are all on gessoed canvas. or denim....sometimes scraps stitched together first.

I'm learning a lot but still don't know where/how to use it all....we have 4 more classes. I'm sure these will change.....

on-line collage class

Lesson 2


Tracing my raven drawing......then choose from the gessoed watercolor paper backgrounds I made last week.


I like the one with orange, red and green.

Apply the tissue raven to the background, add more collage with magazine paper, get a little tired of tearing magazine "feathers". I cut a wing out of batik fabric and used black and green acrylics to paint the raven....drying now. We'll see how this evolves! [shadow of my arm in the photo....I kind of like that!]


Another collage in progress on cloth background....hence the wrinkles...

Taking a great class on mixed medium collage!

This is the first week of the collage class with Jane La Fazio. It is offered through Joggles.com.

We gessoed watercolor paper and canvas (which had been stitched together). Then we played with acrylic paints to make backgrounds.
I like all mine, but this little indigo has a Japanese feel, wabi sabi. I really like it!

Jane also showed us how to design and cut stencils from freezer paper which will be used later as the collage elements build.

I'll be back to show how these collages develope as the class progresses!