Imagine Monthly - Painter's Ecstasy

Painter's Ecstasy - March 2015 Workshop with Paivi Eerola

(see previous posts for January and February workshops)

This class was inspired by Friedensreich Hundertwasser, an Austrian artist and architect.  

I had never heard of Hundertwasser and immediately thought I can't do this.  

But after looking at hundreds of his paintings and buildings,  I decided to give it a try and then couldn't stop.

This time we used watercolours.

This is my first Hundertwasser to get the feel of the watercolours.

by Terry Whyte

And this was the actual spread following Paivi's lesson.

by Terry Whyte

Then I played around with a few more.

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by Terry Whyte

by Terry Whyte

I really like the spirals, so I just had to make a quilt.  This is a wallhanging measuring 35" x 35".  The strips were all cut on the bias using the continuous binding methods and were stitched on raw edged.

by Terry Whyte

Here's a close-up.

by Terry Whyte

Work in progress:

by Terry Whyte

About that time, the Englehart Area Artists were having a members' show and the theme was Artfully Recycled.  

Here is my entry: Hundertwasser Chair.

This chair has been around for a long time, came with an old cottage.  It was painted grey, with some red showing where the grey had worn off.  In places it was worn right down to the bare wood.  As you can see it is held together with metal rods and wire and has a few spindles missing.  I wish I would have taken a picture.  Anyways it's a fun chair now, with the solar system on the seat.

by Terry Whyte

by Terry Whyte

by Terry Whyte

Happy Quilting and painting,

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

Terry

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

Canada, It's Provinces and Territories - The Blocks

I blogged about this quilt in my previous post, and this blog is all about the front and back of each block from Canada, It's Provinces and Territories.

Canada, It's Provinces and Territories

There is a lot of free motion quilting in this quilt (done on a domestic machine) and I have to say, it is my favourite part of making a quilt.

The inspiration for a lot of the quilting patterns are Leah Day designs.  Check out her 400+ designs at The Free Motion Quilting Project.

I made a few changes to the original patterns, added some 3-D elements to some blocks, and a few others as noted below.

Yukon

Yukon - back

Prince Edward Island

Prince Edward Island - back

Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia  - detail

Québec

I believe this pattern represents the weaving industry of Québec, the original was pieced, I decided to weave my strips instead. 

Québec - back

Ontario

Ontario back

Alberta

This was originally an 8" block which I changed to a 12" block so it may look slightly different.

Alberta - back

Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan - back

Saskatchewan - detail

British Columbia

The pattern for this block was originally one fish on a rectangular block, I added the second fish to fill in the 12" block.

British Columbia

British Columbia - detail

Manitoba

Manitoba - back

Newfoundland

Newfoundland

New Brunswick

New Brunswick - back

Northwest Territories and Nunavit

Northwest Territories and Nunavit

Canada, It's Provinces and Territories - back

Linking to Nina-Marie's Off the Wall Friday and The Needle and Thread Network.


Happy Quilting,

Terry

Canada, Its Provinces and Territories

A couple of months ago, I asked if anyone recognized any of the blocks on this post.

Canada, It's Provinces and Territories

The reason I asked was because all the blocks in this quilt were designed by Canadian quilters from across Canada to represent their provinces or territories.

The patterns were printed in The Canadian Quilter throughout year 2000 as a Millenium project.

I was interested to see if anyone reading might have made these blocks wayyyyyyy back then.

Canada, It's Provinces and Territories - back

My personal challenge was to use only my own hand dyed fabrics and to add grey to each block. The only commercial fabrics are the solid black and the black and white stripe onto which I stitched the name of the provinces and territories in white. It's a little hard to read,  I wanted the names on the quilt but I did not want them to stand out.

This was a guild project initiated by one of our members, Helen B. who would distribute patterns only to members who had completed their previous month's block.  All the blocks were made while participating in this challenge but then it took many attempts (and 13/14 years) to complete.

I quilted the "boxes" to look like wood grain.

wood grain pattern

The grey border was free motion quilted in a grid (the opposite black border was quilted with diagonal lines)

Bottom left border

being blocked

being blocked

I use my display wall to block my quilts.  I have four panels of foam insulation that I covered with flannel (one side beige - one side white).  The panels are 24" wide, so I place as many as I need on my tables, in this case I only needed three.

This quilt measures 66" x 75".

The label was not sewed on when I took the picture of the back.  I placed it at the bottom of the grey strip.

label

Next post, I'll show close-ups of all the block, front and back.

Thanks for stopping by.

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

Happy Quilting,

Terry