On Location at QBL - Off the Wall Friday

The Abstracted Collage

Greetings from Quilting on the Lake!!  Wow!!  Its been a world wind week here in Judi Blaydon's ARTful Quilt class.  I'm so glad I picked Hopper's Chop Suey for inspiration since it lent itself nicely to an abstract collage.   So first we created our collages which we then made line tracings of.  These were blown up into full size master patterns.  From there we are reproducing the abstraction into fabric. Its as easy as that!  Or actually as hard as that!

OMG

The Angst - The Struggle - The Blood - Sweat and TEARS!!!

WEDNESDAY ANGST!!!!

Okay, so I'm being a drama queen (big surprise), but somewhere around Wednesday, it dawn on me that this was not going to be as easy as I thought.  You really needed to look at the inspirational collage to get your values and colors correct.  It was hard!  But as most hard things, well worth the work!!  I'm happy to say by Friday afternoon my quilt top will be done and ready to quilt!

Not only is the class going great, but my classmates are great too!!  I met a reader in class - Susan Griffin who was inspired by one of my favorite Fauva moment artist, Andre Derain.  I love her interpretation  - didn't it come out great?!  She wanted to use the bold colors of Derain in a straight forward direct manner tempering them with the use of a neutral.  I think she was totally successful!

I'll share my finish piece next time but here is  sneak preview!

So what have you been up to creatively??

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1. Small Mixed Media Work | gurli	2. Cat and mad cows	3. THE INSIDE STORI	4. Mid Temperature Colors | turtl
5. Quilted Fabric Art : kestrel	6. Kathleen Loomis	7. Not Afraid of Color:	8. Gwyned Trefethen's Musings: We
9. A Sneak Peek at My Gravity	10. Angela in Ontario	11. Quirks Ltd.	12. On my design wall – Circles!
13. Margaret Blank, Fibre Artist	14. Quilting Solutions: It's OK to	15. Linda McLaughlin:	16. Metal Workshop
17. Metal Work Part 2	18. Stack to the Back	19. margaret in london	20. Notes from Norma
21. Mother's Charms	22. Fractal Blog Hop @Quilting Mod	23. Holiday Plus @ Quilting Mod	24. Pepper Tote @ Quilting Mod
25. Cay Denise	26. Sally Gould Wright - Textile	27. FiberWorks: Micro Rhythm

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