A few photos from the Exhibit

Our exhibit is in glass display cases distributed throughout the fifth floor of the library. There are maybe three dozen quilts displayed. The exhibit looks great. It was worth the effort we all put into it. Here are a few photos from the show. I'm afraid my snapshots don't give it the proper justice it deserves. The exhibit looks much better in person. Fill in the missed names in the comment section if you can.

Sonja Jeter and Dolores Miller next to the exhibit sign featuring digital images of some of the quilts.

Top left: Quilt by Madlyn Jones Bottom row: quilts by Julie Stiller, Nancy Riffle, Diane Carver, & Linda Cline

Terri Thayer next to her quilt

Clockwise from top left: Quilts by Diane Carver, Virginia Schnalle, Debbie Wambaugh

Amy Witherow with her quilt

Left to right: purse by Jaye Lapachet, nest by Bronwen McInerney

I will go back on April 17th for the reception and to see the panel discussion. All of the promotional material says that the panel will talk about how the quilts were made, but from the discussions on Saturday, it sounds like they will be talking more about why the quilts were made, and what they were thinking when they were creating quilts to go with the theme of the show. The talk will be accompanied by a slide show.

"Primal Green" Art Quilt Exhibit

This week's assignment was to create an event flyer. I decided I might as well advertise my own event. I had fun manipulating a photo of my quilt for the background of the flyer. This is the show that my CQFA group has been working hard to get together the last few months. We will be meeting there as a group tomorrow, then going out to lunch.

Dandelion Wine Illustration

Choosing a quote from a book to illustrate was harder than I thought it would be. Many of the quotes I found were very descriptive, but also very abstract, and I co uldn’t get a good mental image. Others were so detailed in the imagery, I didn’t know if I could create an image that would live up to the words. Maybe I was making the task more complicated than it needed to be.

I finally chose a quote from "Dandelion Wine" by Ray Bradbury:

“Dandelion wine.
“The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppered.”

This was one of the required reading books when I was in high school. I remember liking it then, but didn’t remember much about it, so started reading it again last summer. Then I got distracted, and never finished it. I think I will pick it up again and read it through, and maybe read the sequel “Farewell Summer” which was published a few years ago.

Lily Pads, Illustrator, and a Quilt

I took this photo, and a few others, of the Lily pond in the Conservatory of Flowers at Golden Gate Park a few years ago. There is a glass wall around the pond, which allows you to see the pond below the water level. I thought it interesting how there is a reflection on the surface of the pond above the plants. Here is my interpretation in illustrator. I added a crayfish based on one I found in Wikimedia.

I used the same photo in 2007 as inspiration for a Fast Friday Fabric Challenge.

My House in Illustrator

Back to Illustrator.

Here is my house. The lawn needs mowing, and there is a spider web near the kitchen window. I don't really mind the spiders, as long as there aren't too many, they stay outside, they don't spin webs across walkways. I gave it a virtual paint job, so it looks better here than it does in real life.

I left out many details. There are no vents on the roof, no drainpipes, I simplified the roofline quite a bit, and left out most of the rose plants. Overall, though, it is a fairly good representation of where I live.

Arrowhead Marsh III

I had to take a break from Illustrator so I could finish this quilt and enter in a local show.

Noisy Baby Toy

This is one of my favorite baby toys from when Camilla was little. A baby actually has to put a little effort into making the toy make noise, unlike the more sophisticated toys with batteries which will play some little ditty over and over again with just the push of a button.

One of Camilla’s favorite was a caterpillar (known as a “catter-pitter” and a “pitter-catter”) which taught the alphabet. It would say individual letters and sounds, but also sang the alphabet song (over and over and over . . .) Oh well, annoying as it was, I kind of liked the “pitter-catter” also.

For the current Illustrator assignment we needed to create an assembly drawing to show how to assemble, use, or repair a piece of equipment. My instructor says if he sees another iPod drawing he’ll scream, so I decided to have a little fun and draw this baby toy.

Hopefully this toy is intuitive enough to learn without instructions (as all baby toys should be), but to fit the requirements of the assignment, instructions were added.