Day one of quilt circles participation
spent about an hour on this, my first circle in the daily create a circle thingy -
"Quilty 365"
, (which I was inspired to try after looking at Stephanie Boon's work)
So I just pick out some old clothes I was going to cut up to use for rags, pretty much at random. After the pink I thought ok use this blue for the caribbean sky. Then i thought a darker colour would be good, and there was the dull green. Then I chopped it up a bit, and it looked a bit like a banana leaf. And the positioning of it reminds me of leaves invading a house by being over-abundant.
It's more of a sketch rather than something i would display as a finished article. Btw that pink line going across the circle is influenced by Stephie's work (subconsciously)!
I'm quite happy that I 'jumped on board' this idea, as it is a good way to just play with materials and generate ideas, as well as keeping a regular date with art activity each day. I will try to spend not more that one hour max on each one.
Just something simple to start off this blog. A person asked me to add some words to a picture they had for their home. I kept putting off this simple job, but got it done today.
Please note! The chocolate-boxy picture was NOT done by me!. I did the letters to fit with the style of the image and also with the OTT frame! The font is roughly copied from 'Harrington', but the details of the font are lost in the painting.
I had a small tube of gold acrylic, which was luckily not completely dried up. (I'd had it since about somewhere in the 1990's). I managed to squeeze a bit out and mixed it with some water. However it was still a bit lumpy. So I decided to put the paint on thickly, to match the lumpy frame. (I also put some on the frame where the gold paint was chipped there).
Notice that I have added some paler sky behind the words, which was 'scumbled' subtly (I think) to look like it was always a part of the picture (hopefully). The paler sky was necessary to provide a contrast with the letters. The job required bright light and a magnifier, as the letters were rather small to paint with the brush I was using.
Here's my kitchen table, with the job in progress. (Kitchen is cluttered at present).
Here's the finished lettering. I gave it a spray with some clear acrylic (car) spray, to protect it.
