More Fabric Art

My current Art for Quilters class also had instructions for a landscape project of Mt. Fuji. I didn't really want to do Mt. Fuji, but I've been wanting to do a fabric rendition of a Jane Austen drawing that was done in 1804 by her sister, Cassandra Austen.

I created my own landscape with the English countryside in mind and then overlaid it with my rendition of the Jane Austen pastel. In my landscape I included the rolling hillsides that are famous in England and then included ancient man-made stone fence that have remained standing after hundreds of years, a HA-HA for Jane to look down upon and then the knoll on which Jane was sitting.

Here's the picture of my fabric photo.

Original pastel by Cassandra Austen of Jane Austen, 1804

Art Quilt Class - interpreting the masters

Above is a photo of the results of Lesson 2 from my current QU class. This is a fabric interpretation of a Henri Matisse painting called Woman Sitting Before a Window (not a terribly original title). Part of the classwork is determining the format of a painting; this one is actually a series of rectangles, squares and some ovals - all rather interesting to someone with no art background whatsoever.



I did take some license with the painting and changed the color scheme, put in a lighthouse outside of the window instead of a boat and then gave the lady a pretty face. Matisse was part of the Fauvist movement, following the Impressionist movement, whereby a more primitive technique to art was taken. The actual facial features on the lady as drawn by Matisse were rather ugly, so I gave her a face lift! I've included a picture below of the actual painting by Matisse that my fabric picture is emulating.

Woman Sitting Before a Window by Henri Matisse, painted 1904

Another Still Life

Here's another stab at my Art for Quilters class.

Art Quilt Class

I'm taking yet another online class with Quilt University. This class is teaching art concepts and structure in design -- sort of a "Philosphy of Art" (as Max Dugan might have said). The class is taught by award-winning quilt artist, Marilyn Belford.

The first class was involved with creating a still life and then interpreting that drawing in fabric. The two pictures included with this post show (1) the drawing that I created using squares and circles to create the imagery and (2) the actual "quiltlet" as it was interpreted in fabric. This is all done with fusible webbing.