Messy Painted Canvas...

The tables are...set for FUN !

Messy Painted Canvas

Canvas / Duck Cloth

Inexpensive Acrylic Craft Paints

Found Objects for stamping

First Layer....Light paints.... rolled on

to create some background noise.

Second Layer....stamping with medium colors

with found objects.

Close Up View:  Found Object Stamping

At this point,  we have added several more layers

of darker paints and foam stamps:

The addition of the black and white paints

really makes the composition.....sing!

Completed Canvas

The final layer is adding detail

with black and white paint markers:

Linda using a white paint marker

5 Art Sisters each left with a 6 foot canvas:

It is great to get together with my TRIBE again !

These make great tote bags....and more!

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn

Improv Technique 8......Design Wall

These are some blocks I created back in April

Improv Style

This is what they looked like the last 

time you saw them...

They are basically a log cabin style block

with only 3 sides instead of 4...

You just keep adding wonky strips

on 3 sides...

They remind me of arches...

I got them back out last week

and put them up on the design wall:

They are in no particular order...

I just put them up on the wall to see

what I had to work with...

and also to see how big of a quilt top

they would create...

I think I have enough for a lap quilt...

there are more blocks on the table.

I will begin moving them and tweeking

them around and see what happens.

I could use a new lap quilt so...

I am motivated!

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LuAnn

Improv.....Quilt Top

I spent March, April and May

creating lots of FUN improv blocks...

All of the fabrics are hand dyes I found at the bottom

of the scrap bin:

3 1/2 inch blocks

4 inch random strip blocks

4 inch floating triangle blocks

Wonky flying geese blocks

4 inch criss cross blocks

There were lots of small bits of hand dyes

 at the bottom of the scrap bin,  

so I pieced them together into long strips...

Then I inserted the pieced strips into

random strip units

It was great FUN putting all of the

improv blocks together...

I added lots of non-pieced solid strips

to quiet down the composition...

Improv piecing gets busy very quickly...

the solid strips give the eye a place to rest.

The bright borders help to lighten up

a somewhat dark composition...

At this point it measures approximately

48 inches square...

there are more improv blocks on the work table.

It may be awhile before I can get back to this...

Hay Season has begun here in Western Oregon:

Mowing.....Raking.....Baling

This hay is our winter feed supply for the cattle...

I won't hear the sweet hum of my sewing machine...

I will be behind the wheel of this little beauty...

Happy Summer!

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn