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My Art Quilts are fabric translations of my paintings.
To begin, I paint on white cotton fabric with the same watercolor paints and brushes that I use to make my marks on paper. I use anything that might impart texture onto the fabric. After the painted fabric is dry, I paint over it again for more depth and richness of color. Sometimes I reverse the process and remove color. (I have found that I can do the same things on and to fabric that I have done on and to paper for years. After all both paper and fabric are fiber, so why not!) I heat set the color by ironing.
After creating many different pieces of fabric I begin designing and create a collage of fabric. At times, I incorporate small abstracts on paper. these are coated with acrylic varnish, which enables me to sew thru the paper without tearing. Sometimes I include a fiber transfer of one of my paintings or drawings.
Next I layer the fabric collage on white flannel. I draw with pencil, and hand-stitch to finish. For presentation most pieces are floated over a hand painted piece of fabric or unprimed canvas and backed for stability. These Art Quilts can be framed or left to hang free upon a wall like any fabric art.
Like my non-objective watercolors I design images that appear on above and below the two dimensional surface.