So is That What It Looks Like?

The November Fast Friday Fabric Challenge, microscopic and paint or dye

Cellular view of a condition I have, was amazed when I looked it up it was kind of pretty on a cellular level.

Started with deconstructed screen printing using dyes, then added some stenciling with fabric paint, minimal free motion thread work topped off with puff paint to give it that 3-d quality.

Finished at 8.5 x 11 in

Cosmos, Fast Friday Challenge

This Ia a mixed media piece for the Fast Friday Challenge. I used black canvas and added layers of paper towels with Shiva paint stick rubbings. There is decorative rice paper, cheese cloth, metallic paints and finished with some sprinklings of beads. I think this looks to crowded but did enjoy playing with some things I am not used to working with.

There Used To Be A Farm Here

Here is the latest in my Sub-Urban Decay/Rustic Rejuvenation Series. It is 31 " square, and used many techniques including mixed media. Some of the techniques are; Selective Rusting, Sun Printing, Plant Prints, Stamping, Image Transfer, Free Motion Quilting, Hand Painted, Applique,and Yarn Couching. It also incorporates painted Dryer Sheets, Cheese cloth and fusing all melted to simulate paint peeling off of the trucks.

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

Swirling Nine

This was also painted interfacing fused to layers of fabrics. I then added painted fusing to lay over various bits and strips of threads and fabrics. I then swirled on paint and heated to expand. It was finished with hand painted buttons.

Butterfly Garden

This was a fun piece done by layering various thickness of painted interfacing. The butterflies are embossing powder affixed to a foil and then attached. buttons are UTEE and embossing powder then dotted in centers with paint.

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.

I've Gut A Hole In My Patch

The fabric was hand dyed. I then hand painted medical equipment and thread painted the finish.
The original idea was from an online challenge of showing artistically a old quilt or pattern. I came up with the pattern of nine patch and just kept saying it in my head for days trying to come up with a idea "nine patch, nine patch, nine patch". It was coming out of a shower when I looked into the mirror and said to myself now don't I look like a nine patch. Within just a few moments I could see in my brain the quilt. It even threw me what a concept using my own medical equipment in an art piece that I called my sister and run it by her first. Even she agreed it was pretty out there but by then I had to do it.
Oh ya in case you had not figured it out yet, or just have never been exposed before the painted circle things are ostomy flanges.

Purses

Theese were quick and fun. I used a piece of scrap hand painted cloth and backed it with old hami-down quilted cloth. Finished with some thread painting and then just add the zipper. It will be nice to give them for holiday gifts.

Christmas cards

I have been making some fabric art Christmas cards here is the first batch. The backs are plain muslin for eazy writing.

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.

Autum String Play

Autum String Play, This was fun playing with thoose leftover threads ands and clippings. I had been out that morning on my bus and the first heavy frost covered the autum trees with there colorful leaves on the trees and on the grass. I tried to capture the colors that glistened off of the frost.

"The Golden Angel"

The face of this angel was hand sculpted, her dress is trupunto, draped with gold tulle and assortment of beads and sequince. A white tulle also covers the background creating the illusion of the angel coming out of the fog.

"In The Pink" or Kelly's quilt

A memory quilt in a private collection.

I have tried to captures the essence of kelly as I experienced her.

"Seeing is Believing"
This is my first fiber art piece depicting my near death experience. The cording is overlapped to form the web of prayers I saw and the beads spell out the prayers. The eye is trupunto (stuffed) to help it stand out and the covered with lace. The angel is the essecense of Kelly telling me "You are not ready for the pink". The colors are the streams of color that were filled with warmth and hope.