My Birds Quiltie is another September entry. We've been all a twitter in the Fabric In Altered Art group about "doodle birds", so no surprise, I had to do a doodle bird. I drew the bird on muslin, painted it with Lumiere and sprayed the background with Adirondack Color Wash. All this talk about birds has made them show up in my work a lot lately!
In the BookArtz group, we're doing skinny book shaped like a house. We're doing what house and home means to us. This is my submission...the little pocket holds 6 tags with words that mean home to me...comfort, security, love, blessings, heritage and family. I seem to always have my family's ancestors in the back of mind and I wanted to try to honor them with a vintage look. The background of this piece is a page from the phone book, aged with glazes and inks. I think it will a lot of fun to see what the other particiapants do with this great theme.
We're having a much needed rain right now, it's been so dry here. Lots of thunder and lightning, but worth it to get the rain. That reminded me of this piece that I made in a Stampscapes class a couple of weeks ago. I had some Stampscapes stamps, but didn't really know what to do with them, so I decided to take the class. It was a ton of fun and I liked how this one came out.
These are my completed inchies for 2 swaps in the Inchies group. Inchies are little one square inch works of art, quite a challenge, but a lot of fun. The two swaps are themed..Red and Women. I'm always amazed at how big these things look in a photo, and how small they are in person!
