The Cloth Collage End Line #106: Stunning Beasts


These material collage quilts seem like they’re able to set free a roar or a howl or a snarl (as within the case of Ardis Bucy’s cheetah “Geraldine”, above). And I hope you’ll howl or roar with delight once you see them.

As ordinary, I encourage you to check these quilts rigorously to understand their use of shade—which is typically reasonable generally not—and worth, the darks and lights used to create type. For instance, you possibly can take a look at what path the sunshine supply is coming from. Within the case of Joann Hannon Shaw’s bear the sunshine is above inflicting a robust spotlight on the highest of the pinnacle because the bear is gorging itself on berries in sunny mid-day meadow. In Judy Breneman’s coyote, the sunshine supply is low and from the facet creating robust highlights and shadows on the topics legs, as if we’ve caught this artful fellow on his early morning rounds of the neighborhood.

What can you notice in these quilts that makes them so profitable?

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Studying sources referred to on this publish embrace: my web site, Serendipity Quilts, my patterns, weblog (usually), YouTube movies, Spiral eWorkshop, Sea Turtle eWorkshop, Cloth Collage On-line Grasp ClassFly on the Wall: Susan Carlson Studio Watch, and Patreon.


Joanne Hannon Shaw

“Berrylicious” (48 x 40 inches), 2018, by Joanne Hannon Shaw

From Joanne Hannon Shaw of Toronto, Ontario, Canada:

A few years in the past in Harpswell, Maine with Susan’s starting her week lengthy retreats on the Inn, I’ve such fond recollections of that first eye opening expertise. Instantly, I used to be seeing in 3D and the joy that I felt was overwhelming. This has develop into my true ardour and the very expensive friendships that developed alongside the best way immeasurable! Susan taught me a lot about material collage particularly about discovering your individual voice in telling a narrative which is sort of the problem for most individuals.

Berrylicious wouldn’t have been attainable with out the beneficiant permission of Joel Davidson to make use of his {photograph} taken at Yellowstone Nationwide Park joeldavidsonimages.com and the lengthy arm quilting by Rose Bell http://www.fancy feathers.ca My textile expression is impressionistic and eccentric which creates character inside my type. The title for this quilt was impressed by my artist assertion. “ With an abundance of fruit by midsummer, the bears are sometimes discovered wedged into timber brimming with berries,” My collage is a portrait of a “Berrylicious “ encounter!

This piece was my fourth collage and the primary one which I believed all the weather got here collectively ( particularly a hand dyed piece of cloth for the background painted by Mickey Lawler at Skydyes) to contemplate getting into right into a present. It gained a viewers Selection award in 2018 at Street to California and was exhibited in spring 2019 at Paducah.


Judy Breneman

“The Elder” (40 x 27 inches), 2022, by Judy Breneman

From Judy Breneman of Madera, CA:

For 20 years we lived in a small neighborhood in southern Arizona. The homes had been spaced out a bit leaving room the place wild animals might stay amongst us or wander up the washes to go to. Coyotes got here typically and this one was so lovely my husband needed to take a photograph. Not solely did I make this collage however our artist neighbor did a portray from his photograph. Now he hangs in our condominium to remind us of our time dwelling in nature on the desert.


Ardis Bucy

The Cloth Collage End Line #106: Stunning Beasts
“Geraldine” (36 x 24 inches), 2023, by Ardis Bucy

From Ardis Bucy of Lengthy Seaside, California:

Geraldine was particularly created to enter a problem with Quilts on the Wall, a Southern California artwork quilt group. The problem title was African Magnificence. The net class helped me with mixing colours, seeing particulars within the {photograph}, and reducing materials to make use of small bits of shade and design.

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