Night visions and water spirits

 

The spirit moved me to stitch outside today! It was a beautiful, sunny, warm day. High of 78. Iced tea was called for.

I worked on two spirit dolls, shown here before I assembled the pieces. I painted and stamped the fabric, applied colored pens and pencils, and then added the stitches.

I did the final mark making with pearl cotton thread and big stitches, loose and random.

This one is called "Night Visions."

The blue one is "Water Spirits." 

They're each about 20 inches long from the top of their head feathers to the tip of the yarn tail (about the length of a human newborn) and about 8 inches wide. I'll take them up to the gallery tomorrow. I like to photograph them against one of my quilts, more interesting than against a plain wall.

When I moved my work inside, my hanging crystal spun sunshine all over the room! I hope you can see it in this video:

You can see from yesterday's sunset where I get my color inspiration!

Have a colorful day