Take a look - I'm on a new adventure.    If you live in the area of Rochester, NY, stop in and take a look.    Honored to be showing my photo hobby in my first juried show at Image City Gallery, 722 University Ave, Rochester, NY.

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Back to the Wet Cyanotype!!!!

Hurrah for the return of sunnier and warmer weather.......and wet cyanotype printing.   I decided to try some delicate spring flowers this year:  Bleeding Heart, Lily of the Valley and Solomon's Seal.   This is a good time as it is a little cooler and the sun is not as high as mid summer,   A little cloud cover actually helps.   

Here you can see the progression of the bleeding heart from beginning time in the sun, to pre rinse to final print after rinsing. 

Paducah Bound...Sacred Threads Bound

It’s been a good week and a happy week for me.     I’m always excited to have my quilts accepted not shows, but I am also very humbled.  There are many good artists and it’s all what appeals to any individual judging panel.

"Seasons of My Garden" is headed to the AQS Paducah show in April.  It features 29 of my wet cyanotype prints and was featured in "The Power of Women" exhibit last fall at Houston IQF.

 "Into The Woods I Go....to Lose My Mind and Find My Soul" is headed to  Sacred ThreadsShow in July near Washington DC.    This is a most wonderful show.   None of the quilts are judged, but they are juried in according to quality and their story.   The story is the most important show.   My piece speaks to the peace I find being in nature and in the woods.   I love to take walks and I love to photograph what I see.   It is a wonderful prescription for stress.

Portraits

My small fiber art group played with portrait ideas at our last meeting.   I’m still working on the one I started there, but here is a thread sketch done this morning of my granddaughter.   She had taken a selfie, so I took that and converted it to a sketch drawing.   I transferred the sketch to fabric and used black thread in two different weights.   This was just a fun practice.

The Eyes are the Window to the Soul

I have participated in the last two Sacred Threads Quilts Exhibits shows,   It is a wonderful show held every 2 years in Herndon, Virginia.   It is a juried but not judged show.   There are 6 categories and the quilts are juried in according to their story and of course the quality of the quilt depicting the story.   I invite you to visit their site for more information at  Sacred Threads.
As part of the show, there is an exhibit which is open to anyone who wants to contribute,   The most recent exhibit was postcards.   This year the exhibit is "eyes".   The quilt can be constructed any way.....the only requirement being it must be 5x23.    It was a challenge for sure.

This is my final piece.

 

I started with an actual photo of my eyes...

Then I posterized my photo in Photoshop.

After that I drew a pattern on vinyl to trace onto fusible web for the back of selected fabrics. 

Fabrics were placed under the vinyl for accurate placement.  

It’s a New Year!

Every year I vow to do better on my blog....which should tell you how the last year ended.  I’m quilting.....a lot....but I can’t show any, or won’t show any, because they are all for challenges right now and we all prefer not to divulge ahead of time.   My guild challenge reveal is in two weeks and the theme is "Flora and Fauna".  I have two pieces for that,   My ArtCGirlz group is doing a "whisper" challenge.   This is based on the idea of the gossip game.   We will make a 9x12 piece which will be passed to the next person in our group,   They will make a 9x12 piece based on what they see, in the entire quilt or any one aspect of it.   This will rotate around the group with each person only seeing the one done before them....and no one sees their original piece until the end.   At the end we will reveal all 8 pieces to see how "gossip" changed the initial piece.   I can’t wait, it sounds like fun.

Meanwhile I’m still photographing and guess I should change my intro bio to this blog to include my new passion,   

A couple of photographs for you to enjoy,   These are both of the same lighted ornament that hung outside my house this year.   One has a snowy overlay and one shows bokeh.....the abstract lighting created by an out of focus background.   Enjoy!