Joy

I stayed up late last night to finish my piece for our "Joy" challenge.  I'm really happy I found a piece of SkyDyes fabric to use as the background; it seemed to me to have just the right feel.   I chose not to quilt contour lines as many portraiture artists do because I just couldn't get it right.  The contours I made looked a bit wonky.   To be fair, though, I've never been someone who adds lots of quilting, so perhaps this is more in keeping with my "style".  What do you think?  Was that a mistake or does it work alright?

I look forward your feedback and comments.   I think this is something I'd like to do a bit more of, so your thoughts will be very helpful. Thanks.

More joy

It seems that several of us feel the joy of family. I snapped an in- hospital shot of my second son, daughter in law, and newborn first granddaughter a few years ago and have been wanting to add it to my textile portrait album since then. This was the perfect opportunity, and thus we have "Lovebirds Three." Check out my blog (scroll back) to see others in the series. Printed fabrics and multicolors of thread bring them to life.Although I also paint portraits with oil on canvas, but I like doing my fabric portraits with collage rather than painting on the cloth. anyway, Enjoy!
Phyllis

joyful colour play

Joyful colour play
At first I had a bad time with Joy, I was absolutely blocked! Then started to think about colours and their significance to me and it became clear that the only way to express joy was
Playing with red!
Painted, dyed and printed cotton, lutradur and organza, cutted and sewed together again, overlaid.
It was a joy to play with it!

On the Path to "Joy"

I'm working hard on my "Joy" piece.  It's based on a photo of my youngest daughter with her head thrown back in laughter.  This is a bit of a new direction for me.   I've never tried to create a face like this before and I hardly ever use these colors.   As a result, things are taking me longer than expected.   At any rate, I thought you might appreciate a peek at the piece to date.

October/November 2010 Challenge Word

blight

noun \ˈblīt\
1 : something that frustrates plans or hopes
2 : something that impairs or destroys
3 : a deteriorated condition blight
4a : a disease or injury of plants marked by the formation of lesions, withering, and death of parts (as leaves and tubers)
b : an organism (as an insect or a fungus) that causes blight

Orientation: Vertical

Joy - full play with colour

as I anounced befor I^ll not be able to show my Joy today but I'm working on:

"Greetings from...MOTHERHOOD- the most JOYful trip ever..."

I knew as soon as I posted the word "JOY" that my quilt would include my children and this is what I recently came up with...I envisioned a postcard with the old timey banner "Greetings from..." I photo transfered some pictures of my boys and then I simply had to include as much color as possible as it is certainly another JOY of mine!
As this quilt progressed, I kept thinking of all the trips/places we as a family have traveled and now how the 3 of them are still traveling- constantly it seems, so I excessively "passport stamped" my finished piece of JOY!

"Greetings from MOTHERHOOD- the most JOYful trip ever..."

JOY

Hello! I had such fun creating my JOY peice! It was a JOY!!!! Please forgive me for only showing a portion as I want to enter it somewhere that only wants brand new works.
I used my usual array of fabrics along with cut up doilies that grandma made, beads and paint.
The whole idea behind this peice is that UUU! should feel JOY!!!!

Hope everyone is ready to see some JOY...Tried to experiment and send pic to this blog from verizon phone (avoiding the drive to library as no internet where i am...) but No luck 0:(Anyone know how i can do that??? (tried to send to quiltchallengesgroup2@ yahoo also but phone said it went thru but I did not receive it online! Did anyone receive my pic of my boys?!))