Monthly Archives: February 2012
SAQA Donation Quilt
I learned a technique that Denise Miller calls broken color (after a water-color technique) earlier this month and I shared progress on a small art quilt. I’ve completed the quilt now and have decided to call it Broken Ginkgos. This … Continue reading
Visions Art Museum and More!
I simply had to go! The traveling SAQA exhibit Art Meets Science opened on February 3rd at Visions Art Museum in San Diego, CA. My quilt Nature’s Fractal is a part of this traveling exhibition and this is the only … Continue reading
More Sketching
Two more sketches for Lesson 3 — Pen with continuous line contour drawing. My chicken looks a bit snarly. I think he is made in Mexico; he is hand-made and painted with bright colors. And here’s my olive oil bottle … Continue reading
Road Trip and a Rocker
My sister and brother-in-law, Christy and Marshall, were visiting from Boulder City, NV last week. During their visit we took a road trip to visit a winery they particularly enjoy — Van Ruiten Winery is in Lodi, about 1 1/2 … Continue reading
Win Dell’Ario’s TRUE COLORS Exhibit
I love going to solo exhibits of art quilts. I get a chance to see a body of work by one artist and that can be revealing, surprising and — did I mention fun? The only thing better is when … Continue reading
Skill Building with Jenny Lyon
I’m always interested in learning new quilting designs and generally building my free-motion quilting skills. Jenny Lyon — quilter extraordinaire, teacher and friend — teaches at several quilt shops in the Sacramento area. I asked her to come to my … Continue reading
Lesson 3: Pen with Continuous Line Drawing
This lesson focuses on drawing with the pen only (no pencil sketch!) straight on the paper with no lifting of the pen. Yikes! This was scary for me. But Jane explained that this can be a very freeing kind of … Continue reading
Lesson Two: Green
Let’s face it — there are more possibilities for mixing the color green than I can assign a number to. Understanding that means it’s no mystery why Jane devotes an entire lesson to just doing that. For this weeks’ sketching … Continue reading
Broken Color
I spent all day Wednesday hanging out with three friends — Denise Oyama Miller, Aileyn Ecob and Jean Jurgenson – learning a design technique new to three of us. Last year Aileyn and Jean said they wanted to learn about … Continue reading
Another sketch
The Buddha Hand may have been a bit ambitious of me. Who am I kidding? It was very ambitious of me. I’ll have other chances to come back to this fruit. For now, Jane is moving us on to lettuce. … Continue reading
