At long last, I finished the Sew-along I started in March, with Alison Glass and Giucy Giuce. Using Alison Glass patterns for mini paper-pieced blocks, I was fully expecting to finish on time, but then… pandemic, lockdown, Dad in hospice, then Dad died and I just… stopped doing stuff for […]
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That’s the name of my latest finished work, a colored pencil illustration of wilting sunflowers. As time wilts the flowers, so too the work itself decays, as color and form fade into the stark grid on paper. I added this piece to my Illustration portfolio, striking an older work. Although […]
Watercolors from my sketch diary.
Silk fabric, cotton fabric, Tsukineko inks, aloe vera gel, cotton thread, copper wire, Misty Fuse, glue, crystals.Painted, appliqued, hand-guided machine quilted, sculpted fabric. 45 x 30 inches2021 Here Brigid, a healing deity, presents penicillium chrysogenum, the mold from which the antibiotic penicillin was cultivated. Although Brigid represents a symbolic idea […]
Painted cotton fabric; commercial cotton prints; gold foil. Painted, appliqued, machine quilted.38” x 30” 2022 With the COVID19 pandemic came a focus on remote video conferencing and the curating of spaces for best presentation of self to the world. This personal visual curation parallels the formal painted portraits of the […]
Fabric – painted, appliqued, machine quilted Four friends gather around a table that is also a latte, in a mug displaying the Houston skyline. Around them, the names of Houston independent coffeeshops past and present reveal their city travels, with a border of latte art as seen over months of […]