As Tucson heats up (96 yesterday), I'm enjoying working with some cool colors like green and blue.
I finished my first 16"x20" piece and stapled it around a stretched canvas frame today! I printed my photograph of a door on fabric and then fused it to some fabric that I painted. This is a style that's evolved over the last year or so as I switched to skipping the quilting and stretching my pieces around a frame so they present more like paintings. I started with 8x10 pieces then upped it to 11x14, and now I'm starting on 16x20 frames.
I'm using this photo that I took at Catalina State Park for my next piece. I printed it on silk twill, then painted more blue and green fabric.
I like the way the fabric paint moves around in response to wrinkles and air bubbles. It makes for a more interesting result.
I was impatient for it to dry, so about halfway through I draped the fabric over some succulents and it dried in five minutes in our 5% humidity desert heat.
Now I'm playing around with different arrangements ...
... the possibilities are endless!
The one thing I have to do is straighten the saguaros before I fuse them down. When I applied the Mistyfuse to the back of the photograph I guess the iron pulled them a little out of shape. If I can't get them to fuse down straight, I'll cover the curves with some collaged fabric and hope for the best.
Have a colorful day
3 comments:
I like where this new one is going. I agree that some textile pieces if stretched over canvas don't really need that extra quilting. I did a small tree series, very simple tree shapes fused to a background fabric and framed several different ways, and they simply didn't look to need any stitching..
I like how these are turning out! Are they going to the shop with your spirit dolls? Sounds like you'll be spending more time inside with the temps up, but our temps are going down next week - maybe yours will too so you can get some more hikes in!
Can't wait to see the finished piece!
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