Enjoy seeing all the slow stich, boro, bojo, etc. type artworks people are turning out. I decided to make a little purse with some SLOW STITCH, OR BIG STITCH whatever. I hate hand sewing as work, but love it if it is for fun...
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This lovely quilt about Tide Pools is being shipped today to Tallahassee to go on display at LeMoyne Gallery! Here are some close-ups... I imagined this quilt to be as if you were walking on a rocky beach with pools available to peer into and see the creatures going about their business!
I can stitch if needed. (by hand) My boro stitch (slow stitch) shorts here.... They had a death defying hole and I used this patch to fix it. It is so solid it seems bullet proof! I'm not into shorts that leave lots of body parts showing anymore...
OK we sacrificed ourselves. If we had stayed in TN, all of March would be snow just like February. But we headed to FL and thus saved the entire state. I did memorialize our first deep snow of the year in an oil painting...
Been so busy this month with husband's doctor visits, freezing weather and doing some art. Making plans for an art quilt honoring a person who has done so much for other people, in particular black Americans. He has opened the doors to finding ways (when possible) to get past the blockage one meets with slave ancestors. So hard to research because names were never included in the census of the time. But it's along story, I am not attempting it here. But I am making a quilt to honor Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Found a bunch of pictures of the quilts at the 2019 Tokyo Quilt show and some of them are just awesome. They were not posted with any info on their creators or the names or sizes... but just to take a look is so refreshing and like being at a real quilt show again!
Pleased to sell some favorites of mine. I hate to part with them but it makes room for more art and buys new supplies. I love Victorian crazy quilts but get so involved with them they take over my artistic life. This is such a great one! And of course I love all my bird quilts... the kildeer is so cute and so sneaky. She guards her chicks and her nest so well! And I love all my sea turtle quilts. This is the latest one with schools of fantastic sardine-ish fish in a sparkly silvery fabric. Lots of ruffly soft corals and weird bubble wrap creatures!
Good time right now to go inward and avoid the news... of course the news is on in our house from sunup to bedtime. But it is so depressing I will be so glad when Trump is gone and we can begin to heal. But ANYWAY... I have found several free internet classes that appealed to me and other pay classes too. I think working in different genres really boosts your favored medium. Working differently makes a different part of your brain happy and inspires the other parts! I love these little Half Wit Bowls! on Jeanne Oliver's site. The class is free. Here is the product before finishing... its just plaster and cheesecloth, so easy... Reminds of the face jars in N.C. But this is even simpler. I love any kind of face art! Next, you could just paint them, leave inside bare, paint inside, or do washes on the outside. That seems what she recommends so that is what I did and I love how it worked out. I think I might make some more! Let me know if you want one!!!!!!!!!!! ha ha! I might have a butt load of them in a month!
I was trained as a very traditional artist. I began oil painting around 5 or 6; my mother, also an artist, insisted she should not be my teacher and farmed me out to a neighboring artist. I painted birds and fruit and the usual. When I started advanced studies in college and after graduating, I was turned off by all the schools and isms of painting. I particularly did not understand or relate to the Ash Can School. But I just discovered Stuart Davis, who was prominent in that movement in the early twentieth century and I love his work. His colors are stunning! According to sources on the internet, he was an early American modernist painter known for jazz influenced, proto-pop paintings in the 40's and 50's and earlier Ashcan School art. Here is a Stuart Davis still life... could easily be a quilt. From 1928. More quilt forms... No matter your age, keep studying and learning!
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Sharon BuckI have always been an artist and with art quilts I have found a way to combine my two loves of painting and textiles. Archives
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