142 – Toxic Spill
Progress is being made on big Fear Quilt, despite interruptions mentioned previously. Anyone who has tried to keep a blog going consistently…
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137 – Just Cut It Out
Precious creations are dangerous. Becoming attached to what you’ve made, either because of the look of it or because of knowing what…
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103 – Vortex People
Excited to make my first people for this quilt. Upon starting this project, I challenged myself to improve both drawing skills and…
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100 – How Good is Your Color Memory?
My color memory is such that I can go to a fabric store and quite accurately remember the colors and patterns that…
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99 – Putting Reference Images into Place
Now I put my collection of reference images to work. Using the magic of Photoshop Elements, I make a quick photo collage…
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98 – Reference Images for Translation
Reference images are crucial for translating a line drawing into a realistic art quilt. With my intended plan for a 3’ high…
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47 – 7.5 heads are better than one
The size of a human figure is often shown in “heads”. Height: 7 ½ heads, Width: 2 heads, Arm length: 3 ¾…
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36 – What you see is just an illusion!
How do you become a better artist, a better anything? Identify what needs improvement, then learn and practice.I need to study up…
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34 – Perspective is all about relationships
An imaginative world requires convincing size, shape and space in order to be believable. Photographs can give me the basics of how…
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9 – What is reality?
For my next quilt: Topic: fearSetting: amusement parkStyle: believable reality Have you ever thought about different kinds of artistic reality? Photorealism strives…
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14 – Butterfly has landed!
It took longer to finish up this quilt than I expected, though it wasn't the quilt's fault. Life just got in the...
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13 – So much greenery
The assembled quilt has been loaded onto my A-1 longarm sewing machine. Not only will the stitching hold down the fabric collage…
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12 – Where will the butterfly land?
Before quilting, I need to play with the position of flowers (I’ve painted a smaller second one) and butterfly on the painted…
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11 – Soft as a butterfly’s wings
Added some paint to soften the edges between black border and fused color spots. I’m liking it! #butterfly #wings #fabriccollage #saqawip #fabricpainting…
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10 – Building a butterfly
Building a butterfly with fabric -the photo shows back and front. The black fabric has fusible on it, which made it easier…
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9 – The black of a butterfly
Flower painting has been put aside – now for something completely different, creating the butterfly. Hard to go to straight black after…
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8 – Oops-your background is showing
My painted flower had a transparency problem. The background was showing through, especially the trellis lines, even with a white backing applied….
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7 – Do you see a problem?
There’s a problem here-do you see it? (Painted flower from Andrea Brokenshire’s workshop and painted background from my photo reference.) #paintedfabric #paintingproblems…
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6 – Leaves and stems appear
First steps…painting a background for a new quilt using my photo for reference. I’ve maintained some areas of white by ironing on…
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5 – Making a mess is fun
“Controlled mess” is so much fun in painting! Here I’ve protected areas that I want to keep white with freezer paper templates,…
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4 – Winging it with paint
Using a black and white photocopy enlargement underneath the fabric, I’ve painted the main structures. I can wing it from here by…
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3 – Beginning the background
The background begins! #artworkinprogress #paintedquilt #saqawip #susanpolansky
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2 – A perfect background!
My photo from the summer is perfect for the background of the flower I painted in Andrea Brokenshire’s fabric painting workshop! #artstart…
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1 – What to do with a painted flower?
I made this painted flower in a workshop taught by Andrea Brokenshire. She’s a very talented quilt artist and generous teacher. Only…
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9 – Final composition achieved!
It’s not a perfect photoshop edit, but it’s what I need to make a quilt from. I love making my own reality!…
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5 – Making a vertical from a horizontal
India quilt composition in progress. #photoshopedit #ilovephotoshop #artistsoninstagram #neqmexplorations #saqawip #jaipur #susanpolansky
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4 – What story do I want to tell?
Of course my India quilt will have people, and maybe a few animals (like the cattle and dogs that were everywhere.) Fantastic…
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3 – Uplifted by kites
Kites dotted the skies wherever we traveled in India. I like my quilts to have meaning, and kite flying seems so symbolic…
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1 – 6 months and counting
I’ve begun my next quilt, and as a departure from my usual method, I am making it specifically for an exhibit at…