Elizabeth Busch quilt from TCQC 02-27-22

Long an admirer of Elizabeth Busch's work I have taken four classes of varying length from her, including one in Maine where she lives.  She has done quilts, ;paintings, installations in public buildings, and taught classes all over the country.  

"Summer Walk"  Elizabeth Busch - Maine  2014   66"W X 29"L

Painted using Pro-Chem transparent and opaque paints, applied to 6oz canvas.

Machine pieced and quilted. 

This was the catalog cover quilt for Quilt Visions 2014, "The Sky's the Limit".

  

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Home from our travels 05-03-20

I was just too tired to post last evening after the drive home from San Juan Bautista.  It was an easy drive with mostly big trucks on the road.  More cars than Tuesday's drive up, but some of them were doing the 100mph drive - whoosh.  There was lots of room for them and other drivers just pulled over, out of the way of the speed demons/  We were all doing 70 to 80, which is pretty standard on I-5 any time traffic will allow. Without the stops it was a 5 hour drive. 

This Elizabeth Busch quilt was on an online auction to support the school her g'boy attends in California.  She had posted about it so, of course, I made a bid.  And I won.  So, now there are three of her pieces in TCQC.  The picture is not very good, although I tried to enhance it.  When the quilt arrives I will photograph it and post it again.  

Caterpillar Hill   Elizabeth Busch - Maine  1991

32.75" X 33.5"

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Ten Little Quilts Part 2 09-02-19

And here are the remaining five of the ten little quilts I made for my SQG Challenge quilt "Hang Ten Quilts at the Quilt Show"  They all all machine quilted. 

"Jelly Roll"  Del Thomas 2019  4"W X 6.5"L  Fused, Machine quilted.

I had just made a Jelly Roll (the "race" version) and wanted to include this.

I used a black fabric pen for the inserts and you can't tell that in the actual quilt, but any picture I take it shows!  Interesting.  ZigZag binding.

"A Bird, of course"  Del Thomas  2019  3.5"W  X 5.25"L

Printed fabric, machine outline and quilting.  Hand stitching in background.

Sewn border and facing. 

"Squares and Dots" Del Thomas  2019  3.25W X 5.25L

Printed fabric with squares, fused dots.  Machine quilting. ZigZag binding. 

"Arrows"  Del Thomas  2019  4.25"W X 6"L

Print fabric, machine quilting, fused binding. 

"Desert View"  Del Thomas  2019 3.50"W X 7"L

Hand painted fabric by Andrea Bacal from an Elizabeth Busch workshop.

Fused, machine quilting, ZigZag binding. 

This little quilt is just to indicate the Surfside Quilt Guild Challenge. 

Surfside Quilters Guild logo  2.50"W X 2.50"L

Printed by Nancy Ota.  Machine quilting, binding from back to front.  

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Final pictures from class 10-06-16

Last of the classroom pictures from Elizabeth  Busch's class in Maine.

 

In an attempt to dry the paint we put some work on the grass weighted down with stones.

Some of us peeled the work off the table along with the tape that held it taunt.  Then we stuck them to the brick side of the building to dry.

Another of my experiments: shapes cut from Contact paper, using both the negative and positive.  These are very small the birds are an inch or so. 

The yellow is the transparent paint on canvas, the marks are made with chalk pastels.

I'm not sure about this one.  I think it is the opaque medium with scratches made with a palette knife or a credit card. 

This is what the classroom looked like.  In the left bottom corner is the table with the liquid concentrated paint where we could serve ourselves, adding the drops to either the transparent or the opaque medium.  Left to right are  Andrea Bacal, Karen Crossland, Carol Fleischer, and Shandra  Belknap.

 

Elizabeth Busch at the end of the day - I think we wore her out.

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More work from Elizabeth Busch workshop 10-04-16

I'll have one more post of work done in the workshop in Maine.  Unfortunately, I didn't mark which
pictures I posted previously.  Again, most of the students asked that their work not be identified, so I am respecting their request.

 

The blue piece on top is actually the back of what she painted. 

 

 

This piece is a demo done by teacher Elizabeth Busch.

All of these are the demos Elizabeth Busch did during the class.

 

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More work from the Elizabeth Busch workshop in Maine 09-30-16

As  requested by the class members there is no ID on these, except for mine.

 

This is my experiment.  I put a dried up palm frond beneath the canvas and then scraped paint over it.  Some liked it, I think it is ugly.

My first attempts.

Pictures from the painting class in Maine 09-29-16

I'm not sure if I posted these images previously because I was too rushed to mark the thumbnails.  So, maybe this is a repeat.  These are all the work of the teacher, Elizabeth Busch; examples of some possibilities of using the ProChem transparent paints. 

 

Applied paint to canvas and scraped with toothed tool.  Also chalk pastels to make fine dark lines.

Chalk pastels applied to wet Trigger cloth.

Top: Opaque paint applied to black Trigger cloth and scraped with plastic tool.

Bottom:  Paint applied with scraper and brush then scraped with plastic tools.

Paint applied in layers with drying in between.  Vertical stripes made with masking tape.  Yellow created with very thin masking tape and adhesive dots.   

Using various masking tapes and Contact paper masks and plastic scrapers.  On bottom left corner using a manila folder cut with curved "teeth" - moving it down and applying more paint.

On the top is a finished and quilted piece with faced edges.

Applying paint with scraper then using toothed scrapper to make lines.

Here we are getting to work.  We each brought five pictures of work we have done in the past and hung them all at the top of our very high design boards.

The paints in the foreground are in the little cups we used to mix the paint concentrate with the thick medium - either transparent or opaque.

Almost everyone in this class had at least one previous class with Elizabeth.

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