After my insistence with myself to give even my creative brain a break during my week by the sea, I came back into the studio excited, rejuvenated and most importantly - I do not have the foreboding feeling of being constantly overwhelmed.
So this is what I am working on. It started out as a way to use up some old soy wax batik fabric samples for a workshop I was doing. I wanted to show students what could be done with a reject piece of hand painted fabric. I tried to do a fabric collage on some commercial "hand woven" purple fabric I had on my shelves. Because this is not the way I usually work, so it came to a screeching halt just before vacation.
I decided to use my pear stencil. I had just cut it with my new Cameo Silouhette die cut machine.
I decided to use my pear stencil. I had just cut it with my new Cameo Silouhette die cut machine.
I decided to continue to experiment with free motion quilting as it is still relatively new for me. I am using it as way of making sewn marks. A lot of fiber artists have been using the term"mark making" a lot lately. I think it's great! The term has been around a long time. Even in my days at the Museum School in Boston 35 years ago it was being used.
And because, at the root of all that I make is me the painter, I have also begun experimenting with using Golden Fluid Acrylics and Golden Textile Medium on the stitched fabric.
Click on the images for a larger view.
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| This is the full piece. The bottom half is what I started stitching and painting on. Click on the image for a larger view. The rest are details of the bottom half in process. |
That's it for now.
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I've linked this post up with Nina-Marie Sayre's Off the Wall Friday where you can see what other fiber artists are up too.
I've linked this post up with Nina-Marie Sayre's Off the Wall Friday where you can see what other fiber artists are up too.