I've had pedal to the metal this week trying to get this finished in time for the catalog of the MADI Museum. This is a companion piece to Yikes Stripes!
As I mentioned in my last post- all the color choices were by simply good fortune- or perhaps previous good judgement. Every fabric except the black were already in my stash. I simply made a block with every spotted, dotted, speckled or freckled fabric I had. Because the fabrics were terribly busy when placed next to each other, I used black sashing. To quilt, I picked a point to have everything eminate from. The illusion is created that all the background is behind the spotted blocks. I used metallics and went from a very dark purple to a royal purple to a lavendar to a metallic clear ( greenish) and then a metallic charcoal. It kinda looks like there is an explosion going on behind the scenes.
Here's a detail showing the explosion point.
This is the back. Guess how I painted it! I flung paint off my brush to create spots, dots, speckles and freckles! The grid you see is the varigated thread where I quilted. There currently is no quilting on the spotted, dotted, speckled or freckled fabrics.
I am off to the Best of Missouri Hands Art Smart Conference in Jefferson City this weekend. On the way home I'll be visiting a gallery near Lake of the Ozarks that called me for a possible solo exhibition.
I really like getting calls like that! Bring them on!
2 comments:
I love the metallic thread and paint! What a great thing that you pay attention to the *back* side of your quilts--I've always enjoyed viewing my quilting stitches all by their lonesome on the back, but hadn't even considered embellishing the back with *extra* stuff...duh, I guess! Thank you for the inspiration :)
the back looks fabulous. they are often overlooked but are always very special. you put so much thought into things.... a pleasure.
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