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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Friday Feet in Maine 10-97-16

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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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Wordless Wednesday on a Thursday 09-22-16

 

(Acadia Nat'l Park, Maine)

Statistics on Maine trip 09-19-16

Part of taking a Road Trip are the statistics, so if you are ho-hum about them skip this post!

From Placentia to Schoodic Institute/Acadia Nat'l Park, Maine  3861 miles
From Schoodic Institute/Acadia Nat'l Park, Maine to Placentia 3556 miles   Why the difference?  Well, I drove around the Park and that part of Maine for about 150 miles.  And I came home a different way that I drove out.  Total miles: 7417
 
Outward I took the 91 Fwy to I-15 to I-70 in Utah then east to Columbus, Ohio.  North on I-71 to Cleveland, and the east on I-90 to Portland, ME, and various small highways to Acadia Nat'l Park.  Schoodic is actually a separate part of the park on a penninsula slightly northeast.
Returning I drove the opposite way on the same roads, did not take a detour to see Ruth McDowell in MA, until I arrived in Limon, CO.  Then SW on US 24 to Colorado Springs to pick up I-25 south to Albuquerque, NM.   From there it is I-40 all the way to Barstow, CA. where I was back on I-15 and thence home.

This was not a sightseeing trip and I only stopped at two quilt shops and the New England Quilt Museum  (for a total expenditure of $214.94 for gifts and fabric)

I ate out twice. First at The Painted Pony in St George, Utah, where I enjoyed a meal on a previous trip and again on this one.  And at the Marriott in Portland, ME, on the advice of AAA and it was good advice - perfectly cooked salmon.  Other than that I ate from my small ice chest which I restocked periodically with stops at grocery stores and gleanings from the "free" breakfast at the motels I stayed at. .

Motel cost:  $2078.69 for 15 nights.  Comes to $138.58/night which is less than the estimated $150.  With the exception of one night at Comfort Inn and one at Fairfield Inn, the nights were all spent at Holiday Inn Express.  

My gas cost was $684.42.  The cheapest gas was $1.959 In Missouri  going both ways.
The most expensive at Cove Fort, Utah (which is, admittedly, out in the middle of nowhere) was $2.599.  Ten cents a gallon more than I paid before leaving Placentia.  And I used 271.41 gallons of fuel. 

Although I had sprinkles here and there, the only real rain was in Lowell, MA, Albuquerque, NM, and Las Vegas, NM.  Seems that almost the entire country is suffering from drought.

When I travel I eat crackers, which I rarely eat at home.  Most commercial crackers are too salty for me, but it is hard to find unsalted crackers.  I tried some gluten free at Schoodic and they were perfect, but I couldn't find any of those at the market.  I bought Blue Diamond Gluten Free Artisan Nut-Thins with Flax seed which were good, if too salty.  Also ate Nabisco Good Thins Potato with White Cheddar which were delicious but even saltier.  And Triscuits with Olive Oil and Rosemary which anyone with a taste for rosemary would love if they can take the salt.  At home I eat Trader Joe's unsalted water crackers which go with anything.  I had a box with me on the outgoing drive and I ate them all.

The most common flower I saw was the sunflower - in all it's multitudinous variety.

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This one, at least two feet taller than I, was growing in a yard in Corea, Maine.

The flowers were quite lacy and lovely.

 

 

 

This is a more common roadside variety growing in Maine along the roadway.

 

Unfortunately, I saw few live wild animals, only a sad dead porcupine.  There was a dark colored rabbit at Schoodic and some type of chipmunk.   Along the way I saw lots of cattle, horses, milk cows, mules, alpacas, llamas, sheep, goats, and buffalo.

 

It was a good trip and I would do it again given the right time and destination.

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