Well, it’s happened: I got a quilt accepted to a special exhibit at the International Quilt Festival-Houston! My quilt, We Can Quilt it!, will be in the “Power of Women” exhibit on the Special Exhibits floor, November 8-11, at the George R. Brown Convention Center. The quilt is a six-foot-tall self-portrait […]
Artists and their art
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At last, my International Quilt Festival 2016 photos are white-balanced and processed. Titles and artists have been added. I especially enjoyed the exhibit of Kathy York’s colorful quilts featuring 3-D elements and tiny worry people. They were very inspiring. I’m really encouraged by the use of shape and negative space […]
Houston had a Quilt Festival, and it was awesome! So many wonderful works of art. The special exhibits were amazing. I took a lot of photos, some of which were more impressive than others. (Turns out it’s hard to tell the photo is blurry on the tiny screen of my […]
The final 2 demos of the conference were a bit different. First, Daniel Greene gave us a demo on Finishing a portrait, including how to get started again after weeks or months away from a painting. It was interesting for color theory, too, since initially the model had been wearing […]
When not in demos at the conference, I spent some time out in the suburb of Atlanta where we were staying. Â There was an art supply store right across the road. Convenient, or subtle torture? How to fit all the discounted deals into a carry-on? Â Then there was the Banquet […]
So it turns out that a Portrait Society of America Conference is actually just a whole bunch of painting demos with mics on the artists, plus a few panels on one afternoon and a big banquet. Which is not to say that it was boring or not what I paid […]