As you may recall, my sister Anne and I participated in the “Abstracted” exhibition in which pairs of artists explore the concept of realistic and abstract art. The show is now hung at the La Conner Quilt Museum, and I’ve been told that it looks fabulous! The Artists’ Reception is this Saturday, October 19th at 1:00 pm. Anne and I will be there, along with many of the other artists, and I’d love to see you there. The show will run until the end of December.
Vivian, the curator of the show, has put together a fabulous blog with photos of all the pieces in the show, information about the artists and their creative process. There’s a separate post for each pair of artists – here’s a link to ours, titled Solitude.
And here’s our original photo, my piece and Anne’s piece.
I’ve been making progress on my newest custom portrait quilt that I started last week.
I decided I needed a few different shades of skin-tone fabric, but I didn’t have fabrics that worked well together. So I dyed some fabric with tea and coffee – see tutorial here. I now have several shades of the same skin-tone fabric – see the 3 shades in the baby’s head below. Also notice the necks, which are a little darker than the faces.
I’m using my full-size pattern to trace the pattern pieces to the fusible web, so I traced the outlines of the figures onto tracing paper and pinned that to my design wall. I’ve fused almost all of the fabrics and pinned them to the tracing paper. I still need to add some details like eye glasses, highlights and shadows. I plan to add the facial features with thread rather than fabric.
I’m linking up with these blogs for WiP Wednesday. Click on the buttons below to see all the people participating and check out their projects.
Of course, how I’m actually using the space isn’t exactly the way I had planned it.
