creatively speaking, this week there was color, a start and a finish, drawings, Index card paintings

Spring Green Leaves  26" X 26"

 I will start this week with quilt making...

I've been working steadily on the Spring Leaf piece and it's now finished (needs a hanging sleeve tho) 

I will show some detail shots in a minute,

I got out my orange scrap bin, the bag of really small bits in a bin of small scraps, and saw tiny half square triangle blocks someone gave me a while back.... I began playing with them, now appreciating the more subtle colors.... and ended up making this

I had to make a few more from my stash that blended in well, and dithered over the arrangement of what I had to work with. 

I fell in love with the background fabric,  I liked how the lines of color extend with your view and that a simple block becomes more if you repeat the background uniformly. 

I like the interplay of paler orange and red orange against the tan background (that has flashes of blue) and that the top and bottom border doesn't have to match exactly in a seam to keep the eyes moving

But oh my, what next? I quite love it, and want to build it up but how??

I also added the unused strip set from Spring Greens to another strip set in the parts dept

This has potential

Back to Spring Green Leaves

I chose a simple sparkling green binding 

I was amazed that it laid flat and square, with all those tiny biased edges. I am kind of in love with it's merging of modern with scrap quilting and it's a lesson in more is better. All shades of green. 

A wide variety of color makes it richer, just like in life

using the quilting lines to continue a scrap of colorful flowers in the scraps

A mix of piecing and applique

positive and negative shapes repeated all the way through quilting in leaves

at the end I added in leafy fabric bits, raw edge and quilted over to continue the lines

I was able to paint some more ICAD (Index card a day ) prompts

I do these as my morning pages often, which means they are quick 

The prompts were hydrangea, Arrow, sorbet, midnight, twig, and yellow

Pitt pen

for some reason my Inktense pan inks wouldn't darken

sorbet was done with gouache, and I like the way the texture on the icy balls came out, not the orange slice but then these are an exercise in inspiration. Learn and move on.

attempt at impressionism with gouache paint

for yellow, I wanted to try to capture a bit of Klimt... the posture and hair were hard, and I like the dress being form fitting. I think I finally got the body proportion better. 

I was looking at old photos online, and came across Lilian Gish... lovely with those shadows that black and white studio portraits gave

I wanted to capture the tilt of her head and missed the nuances... dh came out of his office and looked and said, " her head isn't tilted down" (I know.... maybe next time)

He likes my drawings and paintings though. I learn with each attempt and though this is just a pencil sketch on copier paper I went back a couple times to erase, or tweak, or re-shade an area. I like how the blouse came out, the proportions, and the mouth looks like the actress

Thank you for visiting, and I hope you continue to encourage your own creativity

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