45" x 47." Hand painted cotton fabric, acrylic and fabric paint, applique, sequins, beads. 2002
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| Hand Painted Fabric | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Painting fabric gives me an opportunity to relax. I feel like a kid finger painting. There's never any thought to pattern, texture, color or form. I simply jump into the water, acrylic and fabric paints and let things happen. It's messy, too, because I incorporate lots of water and other instruments like natural sponge, toothpicks and different sizes of paint brushes to achieve various results. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Love In The Afternoon. Inspiration comes in many forms. It was a lazy Sunday afternoon. John Coltrane and Duke Ellington interpreting In a Sentimental Mood. Love In The Afternoon was shown in the exhibition Finding Voice, Creating Vision (National Civil Rights Museum, September - December 2002), curated by Carolyn Mazloomi. Read article describing this exhibition as published in the Studio Art Quilt Associates newsletter (Winter 2002) 45" x 47." Hand painted cotton fabric, acrylic and fabric paint, applique, sequins, beads. 2002 |
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| Love In The Afternoon, detail | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| This technique involves painting several pieces of muslin, cutting the painted, heat-set fabric into strips and then sewing the strips together. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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