Gold on grey

I am working on a new piece of art cloth that has multiple layers of printing, with gold, puff additive and silver paint on digitally printed cloth. The original image was of tree rings.

This is one of the new pieces that I have just completed based on photos of tree ring slices. I work with the image in Photoshop Elements, print through Spoonflower, and then go into the piece and start adding additional paint and stitching. This is part of new series and I have much to explore. I like these pieces because they seem like large abstracts canvases to me. This one is 54 inches wide x 68 inches tall. It is printed on a cotton canvas so there is texture in the material to begin with and I have backed it very stiffly so they feel like paintings. It was not fun stitching on this AT ALL.

 

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Upcoming exhibition - Water Colors

Coming too soon is my solo exhibit at The Starline Gallery. I will be showing about 18 art quilts and art cloth pieces from my water reflection series. Some of these pieces have not been gathered together in quite some time. I just received Reflections, Venice, var. 2 back from its sojourn at the U. S. Embassy in Vientiane, Laos.  More information to come as the I get closer to the date. Now it's time to clean studio, make labels, finish poster, get work ready to hang and ......

Quilt National 2013 Opening

Here are some photos from this past weekend opening at Quilt National 2013 at The Dairy Barn in Athens, OH. Top photo is Kathy Weaver (Highland Park, IL) speaking about her piece followed by me talking about mine. The others are an assortment of photos of other wonderful pieces. 

Article in Quilting Arts

I have an article on digital design and printing using an online printer in the December/January issue of Quilting Arts. Please check it out. Available online at QuiltingArts.com or on the newstands.

I am excited to see the cloth and the words in print! This is my 3rd article with Quilting Arts. They also published my DVD -  Three Dimensional Fiber Art: Shape and Texture, Light and Shadow, which has been doing well.

Having spent so much of my previous career in publishing from the publisher end, it is fun to be an author.

Dancing Bird Studio

Today a couple of fiber friends and I visited Darcy Love at  Dancing Bird Studio in Wisconsin. We had fun checking out her new studio space and then talking with each other about our ongoing projects. I took a few photos incuding a very funny photo of Andy - the cat with 100 lives! Andy has many different ailments and is constantly at death's door but here he is clowning for the camera. Check out Darcy's website and beautiful art cloth at http://www.dancingbirdstudio.com/