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Friday, February 7, 2014

Red barn finish

20" x 16"

The back door of the red round barn at Shelburne museum.

 

In the window I colored with pastels just small bit of grass and ground to make it look like a reflection of sorts.

I love how this came out. It's being mailed to its new home today :-)

 

 

Yesterday Abbey (the one in the foreground playing hard to get) went to visit her boyfriend Murphy and his sister Sadie.

 

My next project is going to be recreating a Matisse painting called The Dance. It's half done so will have lots to show you next week of that. Check out some of his paintings. They are perfect for interpreting into quilts because his work and figures are simple in design and faces not detailed. I don't know if it's legal to sell an art quilt made from one of his paintings, probablly not but I'll keep this one for myself anyway. Does anyone know the rules on that? I would assume even though it's before the time of copyrights that someone has copyrighted each painting? Glen of quilts and dogs made one of ....... Oops it's a secret until she unveils at her group meeting but it's cool.