But Cheryl has just completed final touches on a project she made in a class on collage and monoprinting about 6 weeks ago. The instructor was Bernie Rowell, the artist who did the Bluebird collage quilt we have a print of (see a photo of her quilt here). We used Sherwin Williams interior latex paints to apply paints to commercially printed fabric, then cut that up to make a small "art piece".
The instructor provided all the raw materials - not too much and not a wide variety of fabric and paint - so students could concentrate on the techniques. Class members had to use their imaginations to come up with shapes to work with. Cheryl's quilt is pretty tame, with none of the metallics that Bernie uses in her quilts to add life. (They were available but students were all running out of steam by the time they came out.) The two white and two orange fabrics that make the background were left in their original state, but all the other fabrics have paint. Even the binding (the striped outer edge) is made entirely of little squares cut from the few remnants of the painted fabrics. The piece was already bound when it came home, so it took a little ingenuity to figure out how to get it onto the quilting machine so that Cheryl could finally do what she's comfortable with - a lot of additional quilting! It always looks funny to put such a tiny quilt on the 12 foot table of the longarm.
The piece was made as a learning experience and has no other purpose. It's exactly the size of a placemat. Bernie mounts her pieces and has them framed. This one is more likely going to serve as a cat-mat.
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That's really interesting! How does the paint behave under the machine? It seems like it would be pretty stiff and maybe crock off... I'm always enthralled with people's creativity! Who'da thunk to use wall paint on fabric?
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