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.

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Then I played around with a few more.

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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.

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Here's a close-up.

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Work in progress:

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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.

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Happy Quilting and painting,

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

Terry

Imagine Monthly - Flowing Greenery

Flowing Greenery - February 2015 workshop with Paivi Eerola

The second class was inspired by William Morris. The technique used here taught us to create illustrational pages, also very abstract paintings.

This time we used colouring pencils and acrylics.

This was my first attempt.

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And then an abstract

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Another vase

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This is a two page spread in a moleskin journal.  The fruit tree was made the same way as the "flowers" and the trunk as the vase.  Animals were drawn using simple shapes.

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My second spread.

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William Morris designed a lot of wallpapers and fabrics using leaves and flowers and almost always added a few little animals in his designs.

Challenging but learned a lot.

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