Fragments 3

This piece continues the work on canvas though much of the base layer is covered with other materials. It has been useful to stick with the canvases that were orange in tone and pull all sorts of materials that would work in the color frame. It is also interesting to mix the lines and details of the original canvases with other patterns. In this The center panel was striped. I added the hand stitching in the stripes and then continued these marks with quilting in the left side panel. 

Fragments 3

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100 Days Project

100 Days Project is a simple creativity project 

that requires one thing, every day for 100 days.

This intrigued me on a number of levels. Though I realized I could be setting myself up for failure depending on how complex or not I designed the project for myself. For starters I wouldn't even be home for 100 days in a row. And I didn't want to make 100 things. So in the end my construct was as follows.

1. For each day I was home, I would work in The Lab (my nickname for my sewing studio.)
2. I would only use materials I had on hand.
3. Each piece I created would include hand stitching.
4. I would use as a base, canvases that I had painted in the last few years.
5. My work would be collage like.
6. I would experiment with all types of tools for mark making.

Fragments 1 

-includes painted canvas, hand dyed and discharged cloth, 

computer generated and stenciled cloth.

fine tip marker and machine and hand stitching

Fragments 2

-includes painted canvas, hand dyed and discharged cloth, stenciled cloth.

fine tip marker and machine and hand stitching

Linking to Off the Wall Friday