Fiber Art
"On the Brink" 26" x 20"
This design had a completely intuitive start. It began as just an urge to sew. I've had the idea of stitching on artist canvas in my mind for a while so I grabbed a piece of unstretched canvas fabric and dove in not worrying to much about the outcome. Just wanted to see how materials would work together. I had some scraps of fabric from another project on my table and just picked them up and started arranging them on the canvas in a pleasing composition. I began stitching them down with invisible filament thread. Then I decided to quilt the whole thing in a grid pattern with green thread. Then I took the whole thing into my art studio and painted around the fabrics with acrylic paint on the canvas area. I just kind of dry brushed the paint across the top so as not to paint down into the grooves of the grid stitching. As I was painting I noticed the shape resembling a house and how it seemed to be falling over and every thing was on a tittering balance. Then is when I decided to add the circular motion around the house area and decided to make that my focus area. Then I went back and decorative stitched around all the shapes adding more smaller shapes as needed to improve the composition. I then decided to trim the bottom in an irregular manner to add interest and then added lines of yarn couching. During the time I was working on this piece my husband was in Cabo San Lucas Mexico and a Hurricane was about to hit there. I think that was in the back of my mind and I decided that this piece was about how something can be on the brink of disaster and then turn around in an instant and be OK. The news said the hurricane was going to hit Cabo dead on but two days latter the hurricane turned right before hitting Cabo and went to the east and weakened as it went into main land Mexico. That is kind of how an art project or painting can go. One minute it's totally chaos and then finally it all comes together and all is good. Talk to you latter. Have to go work on a painting for a painting class assignment. Right now it's in the chaos mode. Need to go pull it all together. Maybe I'll post it in my next blog.
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