My creaative week in pink and paint

 

For rainbow scrap challenge this week, using pink fabric scraps, I made a block with english paper piecing. This means for my non quilt making friends, that you cut the exact shape you want, from paper, then sew the fabric around the shape and later remove the paper. 

I did that then laid out the pieces on my portable design board, the way they'll be sewn together into a whole.

so I can carry it around and try out background fabrics to applique it to... I cut the pieces a bit big when cutting the kit to carry downstairs to baste watching tv. It bugged me to waste that 3/8 in of fabric so I took the cut offs and made the tiny 6" square at the top. It is a rosebud... and will become another piece soon

 

the colors so far, pattern : https://thecraftycreek.com/2023/07/16/owl-and-hare-hollow-hqal-2/.

Nature was calling to me this week. I didn't have much concentration or stamina but I painted a bit. 

the little morning painting lying atop my watercolor set (Kuretake)

My friend Sonja and I exchange painting videos with each other, and she sent this one...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/y8TQmPRNQ54

mine didn't come out like I wanted but it was good to see paint dance across the paper

the technique couldn't be easier, it plays with transparency, and I suspect mine would have come out better if I'd used watercolor paper, a larger brush, and diluted my paint more. Note transparency, layers, colors
 

Joy's table scraps challenge this month is to use pink scraps and interpret the prompt Kentucky Derby. I saw this t shirt on the internet

 

I don't love the idea of running horses around in circles but I know artists always do inventive posters and tshirts for an event, so I googled that and saw the cute image above

 

again, just on my little mixed media notebook, but I like her...

my snooper-visor

Milo: hiya! I have an important job. Mama disappears into her hidey hole 

Mama: my art studio

Milo: whatever. I check on her ever so often, I keep her alert by barking loudly from the next door bedroom window

Mama: I jump out of my skin

Milo: glad to help. I come up when Daddy is done with work for the day, to get her downstairs to make dinner and start our play time, or she'd forget and stay up there even longer. 

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