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Natures Shades of Gray
Welcome to the art to fabric blog hop where we pick an artist
and use them as inspiration for a quilt.
This time the theme is my favorite color which
at the moment is grey.
The artist I chose is one of my all time favorites -
Andy Goldsworthy. He goes out in nature and makes art from it.
He uses stones, sticks. leaves among other things and does
truly incredible art with them.
check out some of his work here - you will be amazed.
This is one of his pieces
- he built a slate "canvas" and inserted rocks in a cairns formation
(which if you know me at all you know I have a thing for them)
this is my fabric art version
and this is how I made it
after sketching out the plan
the rocks were drawn in with pencil on white fabric
then with black thread, I quilted
and quilted
and quilted some more. -
it took a long time but micro quilting the background
slate really made the rocks pop out. Worth the effort for sure.
Everything was shaded with ink-tense watercolor pencils
and then trimmed and the edges were done with a facing.
hand couching in some "moss"
a pop of yellow (a bee button)
Last but not least, a background with some grey tones chosen
and cut to the size of a blank art canvas. Then the wall is stitched
by hand to the background and then that is stapled to the canvas.
I really love how this came out and want to thank Aida
for creating this challenge and blog hop and you for visiting.
Check out the other quilt artists that are posting today and all week.
This is just fantastic! Love the little handsewn details.
ReplyDeleteThank you Wendy! It was really fun to make
Deleteooooo your sketching is coming into play here... all the things you've learned sketching ovals. I love it and that you work strongly in series.
DeleteThanks for introducing a very cool artist. Your art quilt is lovely.
ReplyDeleteI've never heard of that artist. Thanks for giving me something to learn about today. Nicely done piece!
ReplyDeleteYour stitching is amazing! I had not seen this art before, but you really captured the essence of it. Thanks for sharing this.
ReplyDeleteYou did an amazing job. Thanks for sharing! MelvaLovesScraps at nolanqualitycustoms dot com
ReplyDeleteHi Carol, that is a really great piece. Congrats!
ReplyDeleteWow, the texture of that piece is so amazing! You did a fantastic job interpreting the piece in fabric. And the extra embelishments are giving it so much personality. Thank you so much for participating in the blog hop!!
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