Journal quilts–July, August and September
The color series continued throughout the summer. For my July Journal, I took a picture of my son playing his guitar. I used my favorite method: size picture on the computer screen and trace! Although his left hand seems distorted it atualy looked just like that in the photo. This is an analogous warm scheme: orange-red-warm tan on black. It is bound with cloth on the sides, and the edges top and bottom are finished with a couched black chenille yarn.
The August journal is my favorite of the entire series. When we were in Sarasota after our Disney cruise, visiting Paul’s aunt and uncle, the hotel we were in had an outdoor pond with koi. The one with the fluttery fins and tail enchanted me. I swapped pond-scum green of the pond for the complement of red-orange: turquoise! ZING! I love the way this turned out so much, using the fused sheers and the layered background, that I want to make a huge, oversized quilt with koi….larger than life size…what revelling in joyful color!
The last journal, for September, is the “Y” trees. This is a shaded (darkened) secondary triadic colors: purple-green-orange. The fabricds are my hand-dyeds except for the two smaller trunks and the orange slivers. Since there was a lighter, sun-doing-down spot on the sky, I highlighted / backlit the trees from that side with the orange. Then I “ghosted” in more trees in the intermediate spaces. This journal is a study for a larger quilt, and both are based on…ge this! The backs of the chairs in the Lumiere Dining Room on the Disney Cruise Ship Magic! Very art deco, turned into landscape…. almost a cathedral of the Nightwood……the branches of the trees like the flying buttresses on Gothic Cathedrals….
November 7th, 2006 at 1:24 pm
I love your Journal Quilts.
November 7th, 2006 at 2:23 pm
These are all amazing! Love the koi one and the last one – the colors in that are so gorgeous. Wow!
November 7th, 2006 at 4:25 pm
They’re beautiful!
November 7th, 2006 at 7:23 pm
The koi one is outstanding. I love the colors and the whispy tail on the fish.
November 8th, 2006 at 10:55 am
these are wonderful!
November 14th, 2006 at 8:40 am
Thanks for posting all the pix from Houston!
So you have a teenage son who plays guitar, too – and with long hair! Take a peek at the long-haired musician on my blog…
Julaine