60's Style

This piece has been a challenge for me from conception, I have had to use and stretch some design principles. I have had trouble with getting the perspective correct for both vehicles, Since they are two separate photos taken at separate times this has been troubling. I have worked it out well I think.

I used my Selective rusting technique on the vehicles and was able to add some rust to the quilted rock wall to add depth and dimension to it. I have used mostly rusted fabrics on the background and border to enhance the picture.

I finished the background quilting on this to keep the hole piece simplistic and I think it helps give more weight to the feeling of it being aged. The tulle shadow add just the right touch.

Finished piece is 21.5 x 29.5 inches

Left Out In The Snow

I was stopped in my tracks when I came across this firetruck. It was knee deep in snow and had been plowed in good. I was able to capture several shots. This particular shot spoke to me and was transformed to fabric. This uses an outline of the picture printed on fabric, I the rust dyed the doors and sides that I wanted to show as rust, I then hand painted with fabric paint in with a watercolor effect. Free motion embroidery edges areas of the truck and the quilt lines. I did not feel the need to background quilt as I felt the cloth speaks for itself. I appears old and warn like the truck and that suits this one perfectly.

Second picture is a detail shot of the first picture

Firetruck Detail

This is the detail shot of Left Out In The Snow, processed the same way with original photography, rusting, fabric paint, free motion quilting

Barn Doors

These where done like the trucks they are smaller at 10x13.

Libery 2 finished

I was able to finish Liberty 2 today. There was a snow day so I got to play. I photo transfer the border and then fused it over the previous border. I then backed and quilted the piece. i am very happy with the outcome of this.

Liberty hill farm truck 2

This picture is larger than before I had to use two pieces of fabric and piece them together to get the size i liked. I feel this one is much more realistic than the first one. I used the same processes accept added some Angelina fibers to get some added iridescence.

Liberty hill farm truck

I took this picture near my home in Bedford NH at the Liberty Hill Farm for a the Urban Decay challenge. This online challenge is to take a picture of urban decay and transform it in fiber art. I first transformed picture in Photoshop and then printed it on treated muslin.The picture was then hand painted.,it them has free motion embroidery and thread painting. The outer border was transformed with melting the fabric and adhering painted fusing, to get the rusted effects.

Sacred

Sacred, EPU11 was created as apart of a Quilt Arts chalange from a fellow Fiber Artist. This piece encompasses the culture of the Native American tribe that I am a adopted member of. This the Sacredness that encompasses so much of the traditions. The four sacred herds, Tobacco, Sweetgrass, Sage and Cedar. The Four sacred elements are represented by a Shell for Water, String for the Plants, Feather for the Sky and Bone for Animal. The four Sacred colors of my tribe are Blue, Red, White and Yellow all In the Sacred Circle of life.