New quilt show and on my design wall – 2013.10.16

As you may recall, my sister Anne and I participated in the “Abstracted” exhibition in which pairs of artists explore the concept of realistic and abstract art.  The show is now hung at the La Conner Quilt Museum, and I’ve been told that it looks fabulous!  The Artists’ Reception is this Saturday, October 19th at 1:00 pm.  Anne and I will be there, along with many of the other artists, and I’d love to see you there.  The show will run until the end of December.

Vivian, the curator of the show, has put together a fabulous blog with photos of all the pieces in the show, information about the artists and their creative process.  There’s a separate post for each pair of artists – here’s a link to ours, titled Solitude.

And here’s our original photo, my piece and Anne’s piece.

inspiration photo, representative art quilt, abstract fibre art piece

 

I’ve been making progress on my newest custom portrait quilt that I started last week.

I decided I needed a few different shades of skin-tone fabric, but I didn’t have fabrics that worked well together.  So I dyed some fabric with tea and coffee – see tutorial here.  I now have several shades of the same skin-tone fabric – see the 3 shades in the baby’s head below.  Also notice the necks, which are a little darker than the faces.

I’m using my full-size pattern to trace the pattern pieces to the fusible web, so I traced the outlines of the figures onto tracing paper and pinned that to my design wall.  I’ve fused almost all of the fabrics and pinned them to the tracing paper.  I still need to add some details like eye glasses, highlights and shadows.  I plan to add the facial features with thread rather than fabric.

Terry Aske portrait quilt in progress

 

I’m linking up with these blogs for WiP Wednesday.  Click on the buttons below to see all the people participating and check out their projects.

WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced  

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8 Responses to New quilt show and on my design wall – 2013.10.16

  1. What fun to see the results of the joint “adventure” in making these art pieces!

  2. Forgot to mention how much I love seeing the progress on the new portrait. It’s lookin’ good!

  3. elle says:

    These are all great!

  4. oooh! That is going to be lovely! : )

  5. Both quilts came out so different yet both are just wonderful! Wish I could see the exhibit.
    Your new portrait is coming out wonderful also!

  6. It is coming together beautifully

  7. Régina says:

    Your work is just incredible (as is your sister’s)!

  8. Maria Billiet says:

    It is hard to put in words how wonderful your work is. Amazing.!!! I feel so lucky to be able to see it on the other side of the world via Internet. Thank you.

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