Paint + Fabric

 

 

welcome to Paint Party friday... this week I watched a tutorial by CeeCeeCreations where she used Inktense pencils to paint leaves. Well I decided to use my new-to-me kit of Derwent watercolor pencils.

 to make a little card. 

I like the Derwent 

 Although I'm not sold on using pencils all the time to do paintings, it was fun to do this exercise. It seems kind of harsh to me. The Derwent color moves easily with water, the colors are pretty good. 

I made something... always a good thing right? After the leaves were done, I filled in with tombow marker to add a little blue sky, with staedtler pen to define leaves a bit, then folded it .

Last week I shared some painting on fabric, and I'm still deciding how to best use those. Sometimes painted fabric sits around waiting for just the right project to use, and here is some from years ago, now finished into quilted artwork

I'll show the whole quilt tomorrow on Sewing Saturday, but I cut up a piece of painted, fabric for the top and bottom of a piece, quilted around it, added in some rhinestones and baugettes. It looks perfect on this piece, so I'm happy I waited to use it!

 

Speaking of which, here is the heart from last week, on the design wall, which is how I view components before making final decisions on how to use them...

 

the piece on the left is lovely cloth, and I'm considering just appliqueing some free-form flowers and stems to it, very simple subtle color scheme. Different from my usual style. 

 

Life is just so complicated right now. Tomorrow I'll show other fiber pieces I'm working on, some finished like my latest flower series quilt, in a technique quilters call "watercolor" where the art is made up of tiny pieced squares of different colors to form a unified fabric painting... 

here's a sneak peek!

finally I rediscovered Gary Larson's cartoons this week, after the Writer's Almanac did a tribute to him.

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