Today I worked on the stitching. I chose several different blues relating to what I wanted to accomplish with the area I was quilting.
The sky
The trees
The snowy field
A bit more touch up on the Moon
The whole
trimmed
Edge stitched
The back
and hanging up! Complete.
Evaluation:
-Although I didn't go where I headed, I did find the background helps to blend different shades/tints of blue.
-I like the different colour background fabrics. It gives a lot of interest and depth.
-I might use blue pearl paint for snowy highlights in the future.
-The paint does change the hand considerably, but it is okay on a small piece. Not sure I would like it on a large piece.
I seem to have tried ways to depict the dark in the past while. Although I wasn't setting out to depict the dark this time, I am quite pleased with the results because they do depict the dark without being murky. I know I have been in scenes like this in my youth when I waited tooo long to go up and milk the cows! (no electricity).
I am linking this to Off the Wall Friday at Nina-Marie's. Go see what everyone else has been up to!
4 comments:
i"m struck with how wonderful it is to do these journals as little art studies - not only would they make a nice gift but you can try new and different things without investing too much into a big project doing it!
I love blue, so this really appeals to me. The stitching is wonderful, well done!
It has a very ethereal quality. I like it.
Thanks for the comments. I like doing the journal quilts. I usually set myself a plan for what I would like to learn about for the year. I got confident about free machine quilting through one year working on a felted old wool blanket - also dyed with koolaid, so was working with colour a bit, too that year.
This year I am trying still life or other depictions of fruit as well as trying to discover what would work for interesting backgrounds to a scene.
Sandy
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