Today in Kenogami: July 2016

Sunday, July 31, 2016

Imagine Monthly - Doodled Luxury

Back in December, while waiting for back surgery, I decided to sign up for an online workshop to keep me occupied during recovery. No bending, no twisting, no lifting for 3 months puts a kink in what you can do.

The course I signed up for was an Art workshop Imagine Monthly with Paivi Eerola and it was wonderful. Paivi posted a workshop on the first of every month for six months. These were inspired by different artists or an era or a style. I have since signed up for another, this time, for 5 months. Check out Paivi's blog http://www.peonyandparakeet.com/blog/ if you are interested.

Doodled Luxury

The first class was called Doodled Luxury and believe me there was a lot of doodling. We used colouring pencils, watercolours and collage.

This was my first attempt. All the elements are first doodled and then collaged onto the background. I did not like the format of this journal, I believe this is an album.

Doodled Luxury - 1 - by Terry Whyte

My second attempt was on watercolour paper. I used my granddaughter's photo instead of painting the face.

Doodled Luxury - 2 - Emma by Terry Whyte

# 3 was painted in Moleskin Journal. I liked this format much better. I also enjoyed switching it up by adding the birds instead of a face.

Doodled Luxury - 3 - by Terry Whyte

# 4 - At this point I wanted to see what I could do with fibre. I stitched with thread instead of doodling with crayons. The background and elements were dyed with fabric liquid dye and the collage was stitched down. I also added a few beads and then wrapped the whole thing on a stretched canvas.

Doodled Luxury -4- fibre on canvas by Terry Whyte

# 5 was painted on a wooden board. We were given the 12" x 12" boards (cradle board?) to be painted as a donation for a fund raiser at the Temiskaming Art Gallery. Hope it is suitable.

Doodled Luxury - 5 - on wooden board by Terry Whyte

These were a lot of fun to do.

I will post about the other classes in following blogs.

Linking to Nina-Marie's Off the Wall Friday.

Happy Quilting,

Terry

Sunday, July 24, 2016

ART PROMPT #20 - Add buttons

Button Loon

This was the only "Art Prompt" project made in the last year.

However, I do plan to continue with this project now.

Button Loon, stretched on canvas and framed.

I made this little loon quilt in 1991 when I had only been quilting for a few years. I was quite proud of it at the time.

Loon Quilt made 1991

Here's the back with some not so great hand quilting.

back

I started by adding two new hand dyed borders over the original "plaid" ones and removing the hand quilting in the black borders.

New borders

And then doing a lot of machine quilting in the background as well as the borders.

Quilting

Once the quilting was completed. I covered the loon with the buttons. All these were sewn on by machine. It was a little tricky at time to get the overlap and involved a few broken needles.

Quilting completed and buttons added

Some close-ups.

detail

The completed quilt was wrapped around a canvas, which was then inserted into (what may be called) a floater frame. My husband made the frame and backed it with a piece of plywood, which I painted a greyish blue.

Button Loon wrapped on canvas and framed.

On the back, I glued a picture of the original quilt and the following:

Button Loon
Original Loon Quilt
made 1991 (minmal hand quilting)
Upcycled 2015
Background heavily machine
quilted. Buttons cover original
loon.
Made by Terry Whyte
Kenogami, ON - 2015