June 2015

Show and Tell

We started our meeting with Show and Tell and 

shared recent projects.

Artist: Kari Bauer

Artist: Kathy Orsburn
Kathy used several thrift store shirts to make a different shirt, intending to enter it in the State Fair Upcycle category. It was rejected, because shirts were used to make a shirt. We all liked it though!

Artist: Sheila Green
Sheila shared two collages she had matted and framed with the intent to enter them in a juried art show.

Artist: Sheila Green

BJ showed us a Temari ball, a Japanese String Ornament, that a friend made and gave her. This photo does not capture the exquisite design of the ornament.

Artist: BJ Bailey
BJ drew this rose by hand using various graphite pencils, and estimated that she spent over 80 hours on it.

Helen Burke shared some pear appliques she made at a workshop made using a crayon technique.

Artist: Linda Bergman
Dogwoods
This photo does not show the woodgrain quilting design that Linda used. Crystals embellish the centers of the flowers.

Artist: Lori Wisheropp
Lori shared an acrylic painting she made years ago of a portrait of a woman. The painting was done using only two colors: the dark blue in the upper left corner, and the bright green in the lower right corner, and various shades of the two colors in between. She did this before digital photography and image manipulation programs were available.

Artist: Cindy Minoli
Cindy's current work in progress

Close-up of Cindy's work

After Show and Tell, we shared our "homework", 9"x 12" vertical quiltlets using our chosen theme, and one or more of the design concepts explained in chapter 2 of the "Art Quilt Workbook" by Jane Dávila and Elin Waterston.

Artist: Kari Bauer
Kari's theme is "Southwest", and she didn't like the first one (left), so she made another one.

Artists: Lori Wisheropp (left) and Susan Spicer
Lori experimented with acrylic decoupage glue painted on the front and back of the fabrics to seal the fibers, allowing such thin pieces. Her theme is "Art Deco Florals".
Susan's theme is "Abstract".

Artist: Willie Beaudet
Willie's theme is "Pachyderms", and she created this with crayon, embroidery floss and fabric scraps.

Artists: Sheila Green and Elizabeth McInnis
Sheila's theme is "Shells" and Elizabeth's is "Figs".  Both tried to show perspective through placement and color.

Artists: Helen Burke and BJ Bailey
Helen's theme is "Mushrooms", and hers includes a snippet of text taken from a cookbook.
BJ's theme is "Text", and each of the fabrics and coin embellishments have Asian text on them.

Artists: Kim Sikes and Linda Bergman
Kim's theme is "Leaves", and she started with her favorites, ginko leaves. She explained how she made the design and then thread painted it.
Linda's theme is "Flowers" and her design is taken from a photograph of Easter Lilies.
Both artists tried showing perspective through
placement and size.

Our homework for July will be a similar quiltlet using design concepts and techniques in Chapter 3 of the workbook.

Upcoming Challenge: Due in August
"Fences", 12" x 18" vertical or horizontal
Any kind of fence can be anywhere across the image, with no borders (edge to edge image).