Elizabeth Busch class final day 03-15-16

Our final day in class - 03-13-16 - we went around the room, talked about what we had done in class and had some critique from Elizabeth.  Some of the pictures are faded out on one side because the boards were against the windows and I couldn't do enough correction. 

Viviana Lombrozo and her work.  The bottom piece is the quilt she brought to cut up and recreate.  She painted the fabrics for the top two pieces.

 

A larger image of Viviana Lombrozo's completed project - even quilted!

(Sorry about the angle I couldn't get it straight on - it is rectangular.)

 

Carol Neely, who was ill and missed two days of class,  and her work.  These are three paintings she did in class.

Del Thomas and her work.  Top left are the photo copies cut up and rearranged. The bottom left is a cut off version of "Red Fence", we'll call this one "Red Fence #2", it has only nine planks instead of 21.  The two on the right are combinations of the cuts from the original and painted pieces done in class.  "Red Fence #3" and "Red Fence #4"

 

Beth Smith with her work.  Only a sliver of the original in the piece on the right. But on the left, slices of the original stacked with borders .

 

Beth Smith in her colorful corner - even a pink sewing machine.

A larger image of Beth Smith's work.

Nadine Rutman with her work.  A photocopy of the original quilt at top left.  Below it is her completed project with the red part from the original quilt and the green from painting she did in a previous Elizabeth Busch class.

A larger image of Nadine Rutman's completed project

Karen Crossland started out with a kimono that she made some years ago.  The motifs she used are from the sleeves of the original piece.  She painted part of the blue background.

A larger image of Karen Crossland's project.

Andrea Bacal did many paintings to everyone else's few.  Her completed project is the one in the middle on the left. 

 

Andrea Bacal machine appliqueing the yellow pieces in her composition.

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Work in Elizabeth Busch's class 03-12-16

Today I cut up my completely quilted and bound quilt "Red Fence".  I didn't get much further on it so you will have to wait to see any pictures.  I do have pictures of the work that the students are doing in class.
 

Beth's work.  Students who haven't taken Elizabeth Busch's class before were encouraged to make a color chart of the ten colors of paint concentrate we are using (upper left).

 

This is a very large piece that Beth did.  (Maybe 40 x 32)

 

Nandine's  work.  The two very light pieces are actually the backs which we all liked better than the fronts. 

 

Nadine's original quilt on top, photo copies below, possibilities at bottom.

 

 Karen's work. At top right are photocopies of the quilt she wants to change.

 

Karen's work.  This shows our individual pots of paint, a mixture of color concentrate and print paste (black lid with orange dot).  These are ProChem products. 

 

Viviana's work.  Across the top photocopies of the quilt she wants to change.

 

 This is one of Viviana's pieces.  A lot of our painting was done using the type of "spatula" on the right.  I think these are the tool used to tape wallboard together.

This is a beautiful piece done by Viviana. The white lines are where she put masking tape before doing any painting. 

Carol's work.  Unfortunately Carol missed two days of class due to illness.

Andrea's work.  At top right are photocopies of the quilts she wants to change.

 Elizabeth Busch's demo piece laid out on a table un-sewn.  The already quilted piece is at top right.

Another piece that Elizabeth is working on changing.

Elizabeth's demo piece using a different painting technique the mountains are made by masking with a torn piece of manila folder. 

 

Today we started cutting things up and sewing.  More pictures tomorrow.

 

After class we went out together to a wonderful Greek restaurant "Fairouz" on Midway Dr.  I had a fabulous lamb dish and had to stop eating halfway it was so filling.  I'm going to have the leftovers for breakfast.  Don't forget to change your clock one hour ahead.

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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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