My Creative week, part one FOMO plus two paintings

 

FOMO   9.5" X 16"

This is my project quilting offering for the last prompt of this year... "fear" what do you fear? 

crikey, let's not take a month to list all my fears! I settled on "F (ear) O(f) M(issing) O(ut). 

I love an event, a parade, a fair, an art show, a tour of museums, etc... going and doing. I am also imuno-compromised,  born with only one kidney, and have survived some deadly viruses like Meningitis for example and have lifelong effects from it.

 I am allergic to the vaccine for covid. 

my life now consists of trying to stay safe, which means avoiding all people who don't "believe" in it. 

I'm not about to share here all the real fears I live with, having survived a rough childhood that left scars, and accumulating a lifetime of injuries to my body, but I will share this quilt! 

I started by cutting up some fusible backed fabric scraps and forming letters, then choosing a background (black on black party fabric) and others

from my stash of lovely fabrics. The bottom one is a cherished Caryl Bryer Fallert print. Some fussy cutting and some additional shapes cut from that fusible scrap bin, and voila! A quilt made in one day.

cut a circle, then cut into it round and round, back out makes a spiral!

I love travel, seeing places, meeting people from different cultures, learning... so I chose a travel fabric for the reverse (back) of my little quilt....

I'd love to go to Paris, Japan, India, England, and Italy. South Pacific and see pyramids too!

 

And now for something completely different... I took an art journal class that took me out of my watercolor-painting comfort zone!

the finished picture...

started with writing my thoughts all over the paper (I took a photo of that for myself) then proceeding to cover it with layers of paint and gesso... 

Here I decided to use a stencil and a water soluble pastel crayon, to put a bird on it!

draw with crayon inside stencil, then drag a water brush to blend the color inward

then proceeded to totally overwork the whole thing! I do like the addition of "sing your song" to remind me each of us has something unique to offer humanity... don't hide it

then I thought, let's try another one, this time using a glue stick instead of the gel medium that gave me a migraine... ack.... just let myself go, follow the feelings... 

torn bits from adverts or magazines, a torn napkin, some sheet music, a lovely face. Then, in the style of my current teacher online, cover it all up with layers... oy.... against my artistic nature... 

again, completely over worked, trying every idea from gesso through stencils, to markers, to gold watercolor paint.

I've decided if I don't like the picture, I do like little cropped images of it. After all it was a learning exercise. I learned I don't like all that mess! I don't like chaos. I do prefer painting with watercolor but I used the acrylics I own, and made an effort to control them. 

Do you like to challenge yourself to use supplies that are unfamiliar? Are you always able to turn that into art that feels like a reflection of you?

see the napkin from the start?

I learned more about how to paint fast since acrylics dry so quickly in colorado, I learned to paint with a palette knife, how to etch into gesso, and got to use my stencils. Thank you to sonja, my painting friend in Hawaii, for sending me a packet of organza butterflies, I used them in both pictures. 

I have another finish to share on Saturday, my stay at home round robin is done! And a small very intense hexie project taking wing. Please stop back by to tell me what you think! 

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