Another Doodle

While I am making a few quilt blocks a day,  I am also doing other things.  Tomorrow, I hope to re-caulk my bathtub.  This will be a new experience for me.   But I watched some videos and read lots of "helpful hints."  Hopefully, I will be successful.  

Wednesday evening while winding down a bit,  I pulled out a watercolor background piece that I painted while doing laundry.  I can do that because there backgrounds are loose, free and totally unplanned.  The color says "use me now" and I do.  I love watching the colors mingle and form new colors in places while other places maintain color purity. 

Here is the doodle

The colors led me to create the  wonky "rectangular" frame. I just followed along. 

Then I saw the hat there so I drew it in.  Next thing I knew this man had walked 

into my painting.  I just let the muse keep suggesting things to try.

And I tried them, adding lines and circles and shapes until it got to this point. 

I may trim away part of the top, but that is undecided right now.  

I did go ahead and sign it because I am pretty sure I don't need to add anything else. 

I think I need to do some more backgrounds. I am really enjoying these doodles.

Until Next Time,  

Stay Creative 

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Non-Representational Watercolor

Of course some of you will say "abstract" instead of "non-representational."  But there is a slight difference.  A true abstract uses some real physical object as the beginnings and stretches or mutates the shapes to make it abstract.  For example think of some of the faces by Picasso. You can tell they are meant to be people but maybe both eyes are on one side of the face.  

Non-Representational does not have a basis in a real object.  Instead they are painted using some other construct. Sometimes, that is simply a design format.  Other times, it may be a play on a particular color. 

For this one I started with three colors as the basis of the painting.  As it progressed I added two more. 

The original three colors were blue, green and purple.  The bright pink and yellow ochre were added later because it seemed to need them. 

I have no idea what I will do with this.  It may just be what it is. Or I may do something else to it or with it.   In any case, I had fun.  And isn't that the point?

Until Next Time,  

Stay Creative 

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Flutter by my Butterflies

The most comments on the previous post said to add the butterflies.  So I did some more fusible applique to make the butterflies.  They seemed to get lost in the design more than I liked, so I went multimedia on this piece.  
I took the piece to my painting area and got paint and fabric medium. I used the paint to change the color and tones of the butterflies.  What you can't see in the picture is that I added some paint that shimmers and sparkles in with the colored paint. This will be a fun wall hanging.  

Monet's Garden with flowers and butterflies.

Now, all I need to do is back it, quilt it and add a hanging sleeve. 

Make a Wash with a Grid

Say what?  Yes, you make a wash with a grid. More precisely you make a watercolor wash quilt using a wonderful product called 'quilter's grid fusible interfacing' by Pellon. 


Today I played around with some pieces I won from Judy at Sew Fun Quilts.    When Judy had the giveaway she said that you would need to get some Quilter's Grid to do this.  I found some at the local Hobby Lobby - with the other interfacing products.  


Sew, today I laid out pieces and fuse tacked (no steam)  them in place until I had the entire piece laid out.  Then I followed the directions that said to steam it.  Then you fold on the lines between rows and sew a quarter inch seam at each fold.  EASY! Then the "hard" part is snipping between where you will sew the next time. 
Hey this post at Stash Manicure explains it all. 
Here is my "watercolor wash" quilt top.

Monet's Quilt Garden

All the points match up. There are 196 squares of fabric in this piece. Yeah! Really!!! That Quilter's Grid stuff is awesome for fast piecing and perfect points.  I will say that the finished piece is rather stiff. That is my only complaint. 


 Now I know in this picture the rows 'sag' but that is due to my lack of photo skills, they are really straight. 
I think my values could have been better, but I was playing so I am not going to be hard on myself.  I like it; and that is what matters!


It will get borders and become either a lap quilt or maybe I should do some (((gasp!!!))) applique on it and make a wall hanging.  Which do you think would be best?