Wednesday, October 15, 2008

My Little Wall

I arrived at the location for the Open Studios right on time. We were each given a "wall". An 8ft by 4ft space. I crammed everything into it that I could. I would like to add another table to my area, and some signs saying who I am. It doesnt look too bad. There weren't very many artist setting up today. There were two painters, and the woman next to me does printing on paper. Interesting stuff. The newspaper photographers were hovering around the few of us that were setting up. I'm really hopeing that I wasnt making weird faces or cursing too much as I attempted to use my husbands power drill to screw in wood screws.

Still working on the Mary Quilt

Im still plugging along on the Mary quilt. I added alot of beads and things to around the face, i now want to do some crazy quilt like stiching on the background. Meanwhile, I am still going to put it up for the Open Studios.

These beads are just under Mary's dress. I might add more dangling beads to other parts, but not in black, in the pastel colors. Funny thing i noticed today while packing up this quilt and one of my first quilts (i like to bring it when i go places, i thought i would cover my fold up chair with it.) the colors and fabric patterns in my first quilt are almost the same fabrics that are in the Mary quilt. So 20 years later my fabric choices have run full circle. Hopefully my taste in clothing wont go back to the 1980's too!

Last minute work

Well, being the Queen of the last minute, I am working hard to finish up all my pieces for the Open Studios. I have two days right?! plenty of time! I have to set up most of the work today and was feeling very good about it, untill I recieved a message with a list of all the things I should bring. Now I am nervous. I just want to survive the show and maybe get a few good job head nods.
Here is one of the pieces that i will be displaying. I made it a year or so back, but it has never been seen. I have a morbid fasination with cemetaries. Always have.
And for a change of pace, here is Rainbow Swamp. Another older piece, but never shown. I did have to rebind this piece, i had tried something new with a binding years ago and it has always looked terrible. i finally got around to fixing it.
This is the Wood Witch. You might remember the face from a few posts back. This is where she ended up. She is not as washed out in person. I actually added alot more paint and darkened her up from the last time she was shown on this blog.
This is a little piece I made for my husband's birthday. I features a stone he cut for me in the uppper left hand corner. The right side of the quilt is a close up look at the stone. Well, that is it for now, I have alote of packing to do and have to get to the site tonight to set up. Ill post photos of the set up when i get it together.