creativity this week, landscape, portrait and flower paintings and spring basket/ hexie spiral in quiltmaking

 

welcome to this week's creativity round up. The image above is one of my small journal paintings

I've been working in gouache again this week, it's not an easy medium to control but I love the effect ! 

note: paintings first, and all Sewing next if you're interested in one or the other

I'll start at the beginning, I view this tree every morning out the back door

so I tried to do a simple gouache painting in the journal. 

apparently I don't do simple

I didn't like it at first but like certain areas of it like some paint mixes

Then with the left over paint, did an abstract of just different colors on the palette

at first just color around the page, then not leaving well enough alone I added in posca pen lines

red paint pen on green, black and white pen, until I loved it. My thought was a portrait in center

 I had some paint left over in my lid palette , and not wanting to waste it, started this week's paintings from that. The dried paint looked like a flower to me already so... 

I'm loving my two home made journals, and the washi tape

a few dots of paint, some dots of ink 

After the blossom I wondered where that flower grew so painted a vista next

still had paint left and wanted to try a portrait. It's been a long time since I did one. Audrey Hepburn 

I referenced her image... and although I like the painting it doesn't capture her. 

I think the nose is too narrow, or the lips too large. It's lovely especially the lips but not like her. Please comment if you can help me figure this out? I loved her quote so added it in with ink and pink paint 

Still had paint left on the palette so I tried one of Matisse's painting as reference. I have this in poster form framed poster from National gallery of art in DC, and it hangs in my bedroom. 

you can see how small both paintings are in my journal. Seems like my lack of confidence keeps me from using the whole page. crikey. 

Then the remaining paint palette was just too muddy so I threw it away... and turned to fabric

Quilt Making this week

the rainbow scrap challenge color of the month is RED scraps... I do love hand piecing and english paper piecing so I tried something I saw on a google search for EPP

got set up for thread basting hexies by the TV

It's not sewn together but it's laid out on my felt covered cardboard tray

ready for more sewing by the TV

I was intrigued by the tutorial on pentagon EPP bowls here https://www.mollyandmama.com.au/blog/
So while on a FT sewing session with Cindy, made one using spring/Easter prints

small at 6" or so across

you make 6 for the top and 6 for the backing/underbowl and sew them all together. The inside/ top

funny bunny

the underside pics

I already cut out a larger version using pastel colors and my own dyed fabrics, and plan to embroider them then make a larger bowl... more on that next time! Thanks for visiting

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