paint party plus!

what makes this paint party special is I did a combination project with quilting.

I took a lesson from Thirsty for Art. She said paint a picture without thinking about content or product, just let your intuition guide you.

this happened. Next write words that come to mind when you look at it. I wrote words like eternity, flow, crossing, curves, continuance...
Next she asked us to write how we felt after making the piece... harder...
in a nutshell I said, calmer. Surprised. Satisfied meaning I didn't want to change or add anything.

I was surprised at how nice the process felt. I used a flat brush and watercolor paints on paper.

The activity was so intriguing, I thought I would like to try it in fabric. I work in fiber most of the time although I often paint on it too. Fabric is my paint... I approached the activity by saying I would just take what was in my fusible backed scrap bin, and build something

It was much harder than painting to me for some reason. I usually start with a concept and I was to go with intuition this time. I built it on a silicon sheet, pressed it and then could lift the whole thing in one piece. I decided to put it on black fabric,

then quilt it with metallic threads with peltex instead of batting. The whole piece is 12" square

intuitive stitching too

 I pulled the black fabric over the edge to the back to finish it off,

metallic threads, free motion, programmed stitches on a curve. Gold lame

and then added beads

If I asked the same questions, words that come to mind when seeing it
Greek antiquity, curves, moons and hearts, curves, flow, movement, eternity... some same words!

How do I feel after making this?
well... I don't love it. I liked making it, but it doesn't resonate with me as I like to start with a concept or feeling. I like parts of it a lot. I love the curves, I like the columns and the beads. I like the colors on black.
It has no title and I'd say most of my work gets a title when I think of what I want to covey before I start.

The teacher also had us paint a circle to do a mandala on... I'll show the circle, but it's not finished as I am not comfortable drawing on it yet. I sketched out many icons to use, and now I want to make quilted mandalas too! 

what ever we make informs our next piece doesn't it? Everything we experience and learn takes us to the next discovery

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