Why it's so Hard to work in the Studio

No apologies.
I'd rather spend time with my Flowers.
Enjoy.

Summer Afternoon -Day 2

On those days when I'm in and out, I find it hard to shift gears and do a lot of work.

I had thought about a bit of detail last night.
I really liked the diminutive deer I had placed in the Deer Park piece. I liked the way it gave a real sense of size and perspective.
On this piece I didn't want the Deer to stand out,....

just be there, as part of the woods.     

Using freezer paper and the same template as before, I cut out a single Doe in the purple organza and tucked her under a few of the layers of other colours.

How to anchor this?
I decided NOT to stitch around it as it would draw the eye. In the end I placed a hint of a tree over top. The Deer can't go anywhere and it now its part of the forest.
As Deer should be.
Maybe I'll add more.

Summer Afternoon

To keep myself busy while I decide on a another large project, I spent about 3 hr this afternoon putting together a forest scene using organza. I love the way the layers change their colours and intensities.

I had been thinking about the onion dyed pieces of silk, a piece of which I used in the Cave Bear. I though it would be a nice colour background for this one.

To maximize its colour I laid it directly on white batting, and then started layering about 10 different colours of organza ranging from lime green through to purple and black.

I used some slivers of cotton for the tree trunks.
A layer of netting and pins and it ready to finish.

SAQA Fibre Content 2018 Art Show

I'm thrilled to say I've had 2 pieces accepted into this show in Burlington Ontario in September.
The kicker is they will go from there onto a 2 year tour.
Kind of hard to wrap my head around that.
😊
Here are the two pieces, not new but I hung onto them for a reason.

Forest Violets 2018

Deer Park 2017

Challenge piece

One of the reasons I joined SAQA was to be pushed out of my comfort zone, so this first challenge coming from the local Pod was to make a 12x12 piece based on Summer,
I sat out in my garden every morning before the heat drove me back in. I did my garden work at dawn in full Summer, looking for some inspiration. Looked at leaves, flowers, grass.
Blah!
Nothing intrigued me........except the HEAT.
I had considered doing some pieces with forest fires before; I painted a lot of suitable fabric, but the fire disasters in Canada and the US last summer and this, discouraged me. I wasn't ready to turn them into art.
So rethinking Heat,  I thought about what heat is......part of EMS, the electro-magnetic spectrum. This includes, beside visible light, infra red, untraviolent. microwaves etc.
That spoke to the science teacher in me.

What colour?
Red of course but with visible waves.

I started with some of last year's fabric,

and after stitching a lot of wavy patterns, (mostly hidden by the time I was finished) over laid the whole thing with red cheesecloth then confetti and netting and stitched to capture the confetti.

Then I added "particle" tracks in different colours in widths of Satin stitch and finished with bright white photons!

HA!
Love Science and the mystery of Quantum Physics.
Enjoy