watching paint dry plus stitching one little fabric to another until it's done

 I did a lot of medicinal arting this week.... you know about bodies turning on you don't you? Welcome to this week's artful round up...starting with one of the index card prompts which I got quite behind on...

I usually do the day's prompt in the morning but I ended up having to catch up a bit doing four at once

she encouraged us to use printed script this week while doing the daily prompts. Generally I need to stay away from chemicals so I love watercolor, pencil, pen and ink. These can be interpreted in so many ways... xylophone for instance... could be just rainbow of colors , or what do you think of? 

I remember having one of these I could drag around as a kid, the tinkle, the way the bars bounced just a bit when hit with those tiny mallets.

 Sea Glass... I grew up near beaches and still love sea glass with it's depth of glowing color, I like sea glass jewelery...but how to paint it? I started with watercolor, mixing titanium buff + quinacridone gold for sand, lots of blues and greens, then tombow markers on top of that, and iridescent white 

I had a bit of trouble making it look 3-5 and capturing that depth but I like it. I used a kuretaki metallic gold brush pen to imply seashells. Thank you to Helen at https://wordweaverart.blogspot.com/for our discussion of making something appear 3-d  I'll work on it! 

I've painted and quilted many sunflowers but never one in such a hurry... I just wanted to catch up and didn't think or plan, just dropped watercolor on this absorbent cheap index card... I wanted a van gogh like brushstroke and can't easily use acrylics that would give me that (allergies) so I used my acrylic ink pen posca in neon yellow and scratched the color over the painting. 

 

ahhhhh violets, natures delicate petals I mixed  purple, red violet, pink in an impressionist blur of color, used a pen and ink to imply petals, daubed on a bit of brown and that yellow posca pen. Some dashes of muted green imply stems and leaves. 

I am catching up on some of Tamara La Porte's workshop lessons this week, again sadly I can't use the supplies suggested as they cause migraines for me, but I did this one by Effie Wilde and I just love the economy of line, the tiny pen marks that together make up a face...

I sketched the lines with stabilo crayon  like using a piece of coal it's so blunt! It's highly disolvable so with just a tiny amount of water on the water pen, I can shadow the lines

Oh isn't she lovely???

Shame to possibly  mess it up with color... but... how can I resist?

She's done on a half sheet of watercolor paper, Dick Blick brand. Not great but fine for learning on

ooh my, I've carried this from painting area up to studio, back and forth this week. I love her. 

the best way to learn something is to immediately try it again, so on my latest index card, interpreting alphabet, I started with an image printed from google in color I liked. trimmed and overlapped bits onto a card, I then used the stabilo to sketch a face over the existing image, letting things fall where they would.

daubs of watercolor, gold kuretaki brush and ink... she looks like an online friend of mine... artist 

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Quilt making

I worked hard to quilt, and join the sections of this quilt  too...The original blocks done for RSC last year...The hearts made this year also from repro fabric scraps

I made it work, found fabric from stash to do borders and backing pieced... I don't like to show them before they are done, but this is taking a long time to finish. I quite hurt my spine trying to finish it to this point. I used a bamboo/cotton blend batting and it's heavy and bulky.

The quilting came out so pretty, and I like how feminine it all is. Soft yellow and pinks remind me of granny's quilts all made from old clothing, by hand, hand quilted, the way she learned on a farm in Alabama as a child.
 

it's a mix of  even feed foot, and hand sketched free motion stitching. The final trim just before a pink binding 

left small orts finally too small to keep, but this quilt is a testament to the beauty to be found in scraps... the mix of color and texture making the whole richer. 

I'll take better pics when it's truly done, but wanted to show you I'm still sewing this summer.

Happy arting y'all. 

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