good morning glory!

Alida over at tweety loves quilting is having a blog hop this week where each blogger takes inspiration from some other work of art. It can be painting, sculpture, writing - whatever inspires or is admired. Go to her blog here for a list of all the other blogs and check them out. All so unique and oh so cool! Here is mine :

Good Morning Glory! 

My inspiration or "muse" is the fabulous Georgia O'Keeffe who among other styles is famous for her flower paintings that some say are ....... um, well let's say sexual in nature. She never  acknowledged this but then paintings are best left to the eye of the beholder and if said beholder sees vaginas and penises then that's up to them. I didn't try to recreate the suggestion of vaginas and penises though since obsessing over trying to make my flower sexual would probablly make me a little crazy so I went for the  close up factor and the lines of her work.

 Liking the white flowers she painted, a photo was taken of a morning glory in my backyard, then I cropped it to where there is just the white flower itself in close up.

  After tracing the lines from the printed out photo, reversing it and making my "map" I drew on freezer paper and made the flowing lines of the flower using as many shades of white that I could find.






I then colored in the yellowish part but decided that the yellow was to yellow and that white gray that was supposed to be shadow was to gray. But it was alread in there and I couldn't take it out so what to do?

Why just color over it of course!

white pastel oil crayons were used to lighten up both the yellow and the gray.

I wanted the stamens to stand out more so tried some pearl fabric paint - ok but a bit to shiny for my taste.

Also in the yellow part i shoose a light colored dull yellow and quilted close lines - that toned it down alot and made the stamens show up more.

You can see the difference here after whitening up the gray.

So don't forget to check out the talented quilters making art from fabric - you can click on the button on the top right of the sidebar to take you to the list.