More work in progress from Elizabeth Busch workshop 10-23-14

Some of the students in Elizabeth Busch's workshop at Visions Art Museum last week have given permission to post their work in progress from the class.  Several more have said it is okay to post their work, so there will be another post or two from the class.   

 

Deb Mackay is getting to be an expert at marbling fabric and brought some of her pieces to combine with the fabric she painted in the class.  She did six pieces in the class!

And this one has a printed fabric with fish printed fabric from Spoonflower.

 

Jeanne Surber did these three pieces that speak to me.  I don't know if she meant them to be a triptych, but they could work that way.

Andi Perejda pieced this from her painted fabrics.

 

Carol Sebastian-Neely with her two pieces on the design board.

You can see the texture she put in by manipulating the paint as she applied it to the canvas.

This one was painted with a mat with raised bumps under the canvas - it gives an interesting texture.

 

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Fourth Day of Elizabeth Busch class 10-16-14

This is more about the students in the class than the work they were doing.  This morning Elizabeth Busch had us clean off all the painted fabric that we had pinned up on our design boards and started us on composing our quilts using that painted fabric.  I wish that I had planned ahead a bit more and created fabric that would actually work together when cut up. In some of these pictures you can see a few pieces of the painted fabric.  

 

Sherry Kleinman and Tricia Charity

 Carolyn Villars, Sandra Lauterbach, and Carol Sebastian-Neely. 

Nadine Rutman (back to camera), Sandra Lauterbach, Carolyn Villars, Susan Root.

Deb Mackay starting her first composition.

Andrea Bacal starting her first composition. 

Gail Sims - some of her painted fabric on her design board.

To the left of that is my design board with painted fabric still pinned to it.

Laura Bisagna to the left and Andi Perejda cutting hand painted fabric on the right.

Carol Sebastian-Neely and Jeanne Surber.

 

Here is my design board at the end of the day.  I have four compositions in progress.  Something that Elizabeth said we should not do; hard to break old habits.

This is the composition I have done the most on.  In the trash I found a bookmark with a bird on it and, since all my quilts have a bird, I just pinned it up. 

 

Yesterday Elizabeth had us do a composition exercise.  She gave us each five white cards and a sheet of block construction paper.  We were to cut four different compositions and glue them to the white cards.  #1 Cut one piece.  #2 Cut two pieces.  #3 Cut three pieces  #4 Cut as many pieces as you wished.  For #5 we were to tear the paper.   She took them all to her hotel room and looked them over last evening, returning them today to pin up  on the board.

 

There is masking tape dividing the sections and yellow sticky notes with the number of pieces on the cards in each section (14 students, so 14 cards).   Top left is #1 (mine is the spiral).  Top right is #2 (mine is the flower looking thing with a spiral stem - not a composition, but a picture).  Bottom left is #3 (mine is the leaf with spiral tendril).   She pinned them up with the most successful in the top row of the sections, then going down to those that aren't so successful. 

Here are #4 and #5.  On the left are the cards we could use as many pieces as we wished (mine is the spiral in the top row and is three pieces).  On the right are the compositions made with torn paper (mine is the right end in the third row). 

It was a very interesting and educational exercise.  Some of the pieces are more effective turned another direction, some are ambiguous, some are too intricate and some are "pictures", some are just shapes.   As we start to compose our quilts we need to think about all these things. 

 

I have no idea why this last picture is so large.  Picasa shows all the pictures I have used as being the same size.  Computer gremlins? 

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APWQ QShow 09-03-11

I'm still with Mary and Joe outside of San Juan Bautista, but tomorrow is drive time again and I will be home to face the wreckage of being gone for three weeks.  That big box of mail awaits! 

These are the last pictures from Association of Pacific West Quilters Quilt Show. 

A very different design from Colleen, but she has still used her very distinctive shadows.

 

I am familiar with Andi's applique works and her optic designs, but this is the first of her art quilts I have seen.  Nice Shibori.  She was one of the few California artists with quilts in the show.  I hope to see more California quilts next time.

 

It is no surprise that this very original piece comes from Cynthia.  She does some of the most amazing things with her quilts.  This is a fabric perpetual calendar - one just rearranges the velcroed blocks at the beginning of each month.   I love the 28 little sticks and those 31white buttons.  Each date is unique and sooo clever.

This was the most unusual quilt at the show.  I don't understand it at all, but it certain attracted my attention.

 

This quilt has a beautiful texture, both the surface of the fabric and the quilting.  The detail photo was taken of the area at the bottom of the tall light colored structure.  I may need to take this class from Janet Fogg!

Wonderful paper piecing.  Fabulous machine quilting.  Lovely Norman.

This quilt is part of the traveling exhibit "Living Colour" (the Canadian/Great Britain spelling!) which was to be auctioned at the banquet.  But the banquet was under subscribed and needed to be cancelled.  They announced that an online auction will be held.  As I said before I will post the information when it is available.