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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Hilbert Museum of California Art in Orange 05-11-18

Blogger wouldn't post this last evening, so I am trying again.  Del

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Today I met two friends in Orange and had a lovely brunch and a visit to a museum I had never heard of .  And it is very near where my doctor's office is, so I should have been aware.  My two friends and I met at The Filling Station a restaurant that is just off the circle of old town Orange.  It was at one time a real filling station, but has been a restaurant for quite a few years.  The extensive patio is where the pumps used to be and there is also dining inside the old building.  They have delicious Mexican food and serve both breakfast and lunch.  It is very popular, but we didn't have to wait very long for a table.  The Huevos Rancheros were scrumptious and went well with hot lattes. 

Then we found our way to the museum which is just a few blocks away and across the street from the Orange Train Station (which also houses a Ruby's restaurant).  The Hilbert Museum of California Art is part of Chapman College and, although not large, is spacious and well lit.  The Hilberts are a couple who support Chapman and have collected California paintings (oil, watercolor, pencil, ink, pastel, etc.) for quite a few years.  They donated at least part of their collection along with the building to Chapman a couple years ago.

Currently there are about six small exhibits: Westways (Automobile Club of SCalifornia) Cover art from the 20's and 30's, Magical Visions from Eyvind Earle who worked for Disney for many years and continued his own art at the same time,  pen/pencil drawings of the original Star Wars trilogy by Robert Bailey, selections from the permanent collection, and paintings donated by collectors Jim and Lynne Doti depicting California scenes.  It is a lovely variety of works and there is, I think, something that anyone could enjoy.    

I didn't record the artist on this one, but it is a charming depiction in oil of Angel's Flight in downtown LA.  

These fantastical horses are part of the "Magical Visions" of Eyvind Earle.

There were artist's names I recognized and a number of paintings that I have seen in print, along with a few actual magazine showing how the works appeared in print.  

It was a very pleasant day and I felt I had learned something from the signage and labels in the museum.  I know I will go back again and probably take a friend.. or two. 

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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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