My local fibre art group, FYBR 2RT, is organizing an exhibit for early 2025 titled ‘What About Red?’ All pieces will be 16″ x 16″ and must include some amount of the color red.
Here is my submission for this exhibit, titled ‘Vivid‘. It is mounted on a black wrapped canvas. I love the way it appears to glow, especially when viewed as a thumbnail image.
When this exhibit was announced, I knew I wanted to use a multitude of red and red-adjacent colors. My brainstorming notes say ‘red, fuchsia, orange, bit of yellow, bit of black’. Below is my original fabric and thread selections. Other than adding red-violet, I stayed fairly close to my original selections.
The background is 4 quadrants of reddish fabrics, each section straight-line quilted with variegated threads. For the wonky squares, I moved further around the color wheel and included colors from yellow-orange to red-violet. The squares are fused and quilted to black felt which is trimmed 1/8″ from the edges. There is a sliver of black canvas showing around the outside edges.
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