Monday 17 October 2011

Quilting-Painting whole cloth quilts

This week has had many ups and down and a lot of time taken up with other pressing matters.  It is one of those moments in my life where I have had to put my art aside a bit and change my focus on other things.  I don't really enjoy doing this but I have alot of pressing things that need taking care of.  Life's like that sometimes :)

In the last couple of weeks I have had time to finish painting the top of my daughter on her violin.  I have enjoyed painting her and I was hoping to enter into a competition but I just plain ran out of time.  It has been a challenge but I love the results.


The skirt has been painted and stamped and stencilled.  I used homemade original designs for the stamping.  To add texture to the skirt I used different sizes of bubble wrap.

I added a dark line around her bust line to give more shape to her.

Next I added a paler shape around the back of her. 

I changed the photo into black and white to make sure I had enough tones on her.

I didn't like the background so I turned it into a full circle.  This really looked like the moon so I decided to make a night sky behind her. 

I will add more of the dimension to this piece with free machine quilting.

As I have painted this piece of work I am feeling closer to my daughter.  It has really helped my relationship with her grow and flourish.

5 comments:

  1. and...I love that feeling of love and kindness and good wishes of every kind you get while working on a piece for or about another.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Lovely. I think you did the right thing with altering the shape to a full circle. And that's a good tip to change the photo to black and white to check tonal contrast.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Thanks for your supportive comments. I'm pleased with her too. I am struggling with the quilting though so it might be a while before That gets posted LOL

    ReplyDelete

I love hearing from you. Leave me a message :)

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...