Graffiti Hearts

Hearts, hearts, and hearts.

Rust dyed fabric base. Red fabric heart, patina copper heart, stamped hearts, fabric fragments, acrylic paint, coffee dyed, machine stitched, thread tails. 10x10 inches. (click to enlarge)

Quote: Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Week #25

I have no idea what this is! It started out as a tree shape but now it seems to have taken on the look of cacti. Organic?

Components; Painted lutradur, first with red iron oxide then once the plant shape was stenciled greens were used. Machine feather stitching inside of the plant shape, barely visible. Shapes were melted with a heat tool followed by gold highlights. The piece is backed with black felt and is 4x6 inches.

Lutradur is full of possibilities such as painting and distressing with heat.


Quotes: Here one is in later in life, and it's perfectly pleasant really, not for a moment that garden of cactus and sour grapes I'd always imagined it must be. James Ingram Merrill

Quilting Arts Challenge

The fabric paper quilt took me forever to finish, in fact I was still working on it just before I photographed it to enter in the QA challenge. Happily it was chosen for the True Colors exhibit.
The beginnings of this piece are a few posts back. The diptych is a digital image of Kino Blue boulders that reside in our backyard. Lots of techniques in this piece that I plan to write up in a tutorial for ExpressionStudio.

Quote: Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Erich Fromm

In the Studio

Moving right along at my typical snail pace rather than as fast I'd like to work, vase shapes were cut out and painted. I'm fond of the one on the left, but it didn't work for what I have in mind for the fabric paper quilt. The fourth one, however, is such an improvement that for the first time in months I was truly excited. The fourth one will eventually be revealed.

The paint: fluid acrylics and water soluble pastels. The substrate: thin pellon.

Can you guess my true colors?

Quote: Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Sir Cecil Beaton

In the Studio

The trek to Loma Linda Medical Center for the kidney transplant evaluation is on my other blog: http://rocky-point.blogspot.com/

Mm, the beginnings of the fabric paper quilt sure don't look like much. Wonder how it will turn out? I've decided to take the QA challenge listed on their site and in the magazine. So far foreign text and tissue paper have been glued to muslin along with washes of fluid paint and oil pastels. Working on a 12 square isn't as easy as one might think. Back to the studio . . .

Quote: The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
Edwin H. Land