Creatively this week.... a quilt finish, two paintings (& two works in progress)

 

welcome to this week's round up of creativity starting with one of my design wall works in progress. The color of April's scrap challenge is teal, and I include turquoise and aqua in for myself.

 (This just in, the color of April now is red, oy vey!)

I love this background fabric, it's been in my stash for years. I think I'll use it instead of the ones originally chosen to border it. Also on the wall is this embroidery piece:

with another favorite background fabric. It seems to need some space so maybe larger borders work

I finished the yellow quilt started last month. 

I love a finish, do you? I love the last binding stitch tidying up the edges, I love the last bead... 

a skirt hanger is the perfect size hanger for this one at 23" X 20" 

I made it for the yellow scrap challenge in March, focusing on small scraps and different blocks

I think yellow stimulates me, but I seldom use it like this. I actually love how this came out! 

showing quilting lines before binding

bead choices to use

the little scrap of batik here is one of my all time favorite fabrics and this is what was left. I used bracelet bits, bugle beads seed beads and a wee hand charm to help quilt it.

details make the art I think  

like the binding fabric, a little scrap large enough was found that frames it 

I took a wellness workshop this week online, and while listening to the speaker I painted in my newly made journal

I just used a cheap waterbrush and my kuretake paints and started with squares (like my quilt) of pure color,  another pure color, then mix those to and paint between them. Repeating across the page

gosh I liked how they came out. Then I began doing the same thing but in strips across the page. 

pushing the wet paint with the brush, forming darker lines, blending colors, just feeling the color

something like mountains showed up. I like the harder edges like overlapping photos, I like the blending of colors dividing "scenes" that show up as it dries. 

I love watercolor work

I liked the finished page as it was, but wanted to try a drawing technique watched on youtube

using a pigma pen in black size .06 ......

I just risked it... the tutorial was from "creativecove" and mine aren't like hers but close

while listening to a different speaker I doodled another page in my journal

using my KOI paint and the same water brush (the barrel holds water so you don't need a waterbowl) and I realized the quality of my old KOI pan paint isn't as fine as kuretake. Still satisfying to do, trying mixed colors, next to direct from the pan. Then doodling on top of the dried page with white posca pen

I tired of triangles and merged into hearts then circles. 

Each experiment teaches me more about blended color. 

Easier than fabric art as it's immediate. 

I love that I have lots of journal pages to fill up now and keep supplies at hand for that moment when I think, 

"what if I ....."      

linking with

https://superscrappy.blogspot.com/

patchwork Sunday   

oh Scrap Sundays

 slow stitching Sundays

https://melvalovesscraps.blogspot.com/

design wall Mondays at smallquiltsanddollquilts

https://songbirddesigns.blog/

http://www.inquiringquilter.com/ Wednesday wait loss

Midweek makers wednesdays  

http://www.myquiltinfatuation.com/

finished or not

https://beadwright.blogspot.com/

https://myblog-lunchbreak.blogspot.com/

https://ninamariesayre.blogspot.com/