Empty Spools - Sue Benner "Abstraction" (cont'd) 03-14-17

Final post about the Abstraction class with Sue Benner at Empty Spools - Asilomar. 

 

I recommend this class to anyone who is interested in expanding their repertoire of techniques and skills in the world of quilt making.  Sue is an excellent teacher; well prepared, knowledgeable, attentive to the needs of her students, and fun!   

 

Adele Beher started with the photo from Sue at the top left and abstracted it to the piece at top right.  She doesn't show her inspiration for the five smaller pieces across the middle of the board.  And she was able to get to the large piece at the bottom - great color.

 

 

Marianne Moutoux has her large piece, that she did last, at the top of her board.  Below that are two small pieces abstracted from the bridge.  And below that the orange ball is her abstraction of the photo from Sue.  I don't know about the others on the bottom.

This is a larger image of the large pieces by Marianne Moutoux  

 

 

 

Kimberlie Moutoux shows her abstraction of Sue's photo at bottom right.

She brought the appliqued map from home and built the trees on top of it.  Her six small pieces are in the middle left.

Here is Kimberlie's large project in progress. 

 

 

Bambi Reile accomplished all of this in class.  In the upper right is the picture from Sue and Bambi's abstraction of it.  In the upper left is the inspiration picture from home and all the other pieces are taken from that photo.  She has a good start on a large piece at the left of the board. 

 

 

Florann Ramsey had the top left picture from Sue and abstracted it to the one on the right.

Second from the top on the left is her inspiration photo from home and all the smaller tree-like images are from that phto.  On the right she has started working on her larger piece.

This is Florann Ramsey's larger piece in progress.  The photo at top center is her inspiration, it is in the shape of a nautalis shell with gold fish in it.   

 

 

On the lower left Susan Tomanek worked from Sue's picture on the bottom to create the piece above it.  She doesn't show her inspiration for the five small pieces or the large piece she has started at lower right.

 

 

 

Diana McClun worked from the inspiration image at the bottom to create four smaller abstract works.  

 

 

Charlene Dakin's abstraction of her picture from Sue is at the top left and next to it the picture.  Her inspiration photo of turtles is at the top right with three small pieces around it.

I think that the picture on the turtle skim fabric is a paper collage.  



 

Here are Charlene's image and the three abstractions she created.

Sue Benner on the last day of class.

 

I apologize for the quality of the pictures.  We were in Scripps classroom which has windows on all sides and is terrible for taking photos.  I hope that I have given you a good idea of the class and what can be accomplished with a good teacher. 

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