Throw Back Thursday - in Art Work!

This week we received back our art quilts that have been showing for the last 2 or 3 years.  We're working on a new collection for a February 2016 opening with all new artists (Dr. Seuss, Tiffany, Ugo, MaryAnn Beckwith, Rich Loudermilk, Peter Max and Blue Dog/George Rodrigue).

The quilt exhibit is based on our interpretation of any or all of the  master artists.  For this past exhibit we had: Hokusai, Hunderwasser, Mucha, Frankenthaler, Klimt, Beadersley and VanGogh).

Here are 3 of my pieces based on two of the artists.  Next week I'll show some more!  Good to document your art work (yes, I forgot what I had done!).

For all of these pieces I painted Tyvek Fabric that was quilted onto a 'quilted' background, then I burnt the edges or entire piece with a regular iron or a soldering iron. 

My Interpretation of Hokusai (based on his 'Wave")

My Interpretation of Alphonse Mucha

I love the Art Nouveau era so I ended up making two quilts for this artist! 

For this piece I used a soldering iron to burn around the painted Tyvek image.

For this piece and the "wave" I just used an iron and pressed up and down on the Tyvek to burn away sections.  Scary but fun to do!

If you haven't played with Tyvek yet, you really need to try it!  When you receive mail that  is in the white Post Office envelope(s), save them!  You can cut them open and paint over the letters on the front or paint on the back of the envelope.  You can also purchase Tyvek fabric (last I bought some was from Joggles).  

Whew!

We did good today!  The six ladies from our fiber group met at the art council and hung 95 quilts!!!!   I won't show pics of other setups until after the show is on and I get OK from the group.  The quilts look wonderful and are so unique...so many different techniques and medium used!  We are a special group!

Tomorrow is setup for the local library book sale!!!  Geez  I'll be ready for a day at home next week!!!

 This is our Color Study: Underwater Fantasy that I showed before.  When you walk into the art council this is the first artwork you see!  Well, my picture is a little crooked...but I'm not a photographer!!  Here are some of the ladies in our group:

This is my buddy Mary who just had hip surgery!  She's doing great!!!

That's Chris waving!  She does beautiful machine quilting!!

Lady on the left is Carol who curates our Inspired by the Master exhibit  That's Lois Ann next to her and she just had shoulder surgery!  

We did take a five minute break!  Chris looks like she's advertising for Kellogg's! 

Walls with my quilts on display