Back at it!

Hello again!  Although I have not posted here for a almost a year, I have been active in art.  My most recent activity is to start a collage group with some other people in the Vancouver/Portland area.  Since I have had the most experience with collage, I suggested the first couple projects. 

The first one was to use the technique by Jane Davies called scribble painting.  Our group worked on one of these in class.  At the end of the class, Sharon and I decided to exchange our pieces, work on each other's and bring them back to class tomorrow.  Here is Sharon's before and after I worked on it.  I sewed on it and added organza in places on the surface and covered a back frame with organza and sewed it to the picture.  In the photo below, the organza looks more gray than it really is; it is more the same green as in Sharon's original.  This was a fun project to work on; to try to keep the style and feel of Sharon's work with my embellishment.  Tomorrow I will see what Sharon added to my original -what fun!

Michael's Tulips

Regaining my painting focus is difficult.  I don't have a driving passion about what I want to paint right now.  I have signed up for an open studio paint class and I am hoping that will help me get back in the groove of painting/creating each day.  Yesterday I did work on a painting.  I started with a canvas board support on which I had previously collaged prepared papers.  The colors were lime/olive and black.  I set up a vase with 3 tulips in it.  This is what I ended up with.  There is lots of texture because of the collaged surface underneath.  I used acrylic and some watercolor crayons.

Flower Garden quilt

Michaela's Flower Garden quilt

City Streets quilt

Kasey's City Streets quilt

Wonky Quilt

Here is the first quilt I made here at home. It was LOTS of fun. I machine quilted each block differently.

Summer windows quilt

Here is one of the quilt tops I made for our Quilting from the Heart group. We give all of our quilts away and we use donated fabrics. I started from the donated colorful blocks inside the window frames.

Christmas mats

We are making Christmas table mats for a Christmas PW luncheon in December. The program will be about the Quilting From The Heart group. Here are two mats that I have made.