Can you see a quilt in these.

 Looking those older photos I get ideas.

 I get ideas for art quilts.

I think these have great potential.

Do you?

Wisconsin at its best.

                         Back to work after a week  of reflection in Wisconsin.
                         Fall leaves are turning there and it was nice.
                         I love cool  weather. Working on a new quilt.
                         I will share  some of the detail with you next.
                         Have a great day.

Morning at the ridge

I have been too tired to take photos.

My upper body must be out of shape.

Wedging 40 pounds of clay

wore me out.

Only 20 more containers to make.

My husband has offered to cut ornamental

grasses to go in the vases.

He told me about the lavender grasses

by the big pond.

I checked them out and

saw lots of dragonflies by the pond.

Love those dragonflies.

Thank goodness he is willing to help.

My recliner felt so good when I sunk

into this evening.

                                    A couple of lovely spots by the small pond.

                              A day off for a doctor appountment.
                              Than back at it Wednesday.
                             

July heat wave, Show opening and County fair.

What a week-end.

Friday's night opening.

Saturday 5 am getting my flower entries  ready for the fair.

Gathering my flowers, paintings, photography and art quilts

Getting to the fairgrounds by 8:30.

Whew .

Thank goodness for my son and grandsons

They helped me carry everything inside.

At Friday's opening of Hoosiers Roads & Rivers

This is what caught the crowds eyes.

I am so glad they like my art quilts.

I enjoy making quilts from my paintings. 

Sunday afternoon I went to the Fair.

My Grandsons did great.

Grand Champion's and Reserve Champion's.

Great  kids.

I work hard to keep up with them.

5 am Saturday I thought maybe just skipping it this year.

Not an option though.

My Art Quilt received Reserved Champion.

A Sunset Photograph Grand Champion.

In the floral Department.

The succulent planter Grand Champion

plus best of show.

I forgot to mention it is a small fair.

I love giving my county something good to look at.

Plus it gets me some time with the red heads.

They get to camp out at the fair all week.

Saturday at close they were heading

back to the camper at 10 pm.

 The food strands gave them free food.

They did not want to throw it away.

Being 6 'plus they are always hungry.

Happy boys.

Art from the show

A nice grouping of art from Jasper County Art League.

Back after a busy week.

What has been keeping me busy for the past 3 months.

Last nights opening.

happily lots of red dots.

To fund another few months in art experimentation.

A view of the gallery as you enter the show. 

 One of my art quilts , the Kankakee River Marsh painting
and a few sunsets taken at Cedar Ridge .

 More small art quilts.

This grouping of fall features paintings

small art quilts and a art quilt of a painting. 

The pond as depicted in a art quilt painting.

The Kankakee River Marsh on a Jasper red gesso background.

Note the glow of red through the water.

Check out Caroline Jasper on line.

A great artist. 

Jasper red gesso is named after her.

A small grouping of winter.

Art quilt, watercolor, acrylic painting and small quilted dreamscapes 

My sculptures of Adam and Eve.

I rolled a slab then went outside for a Canadian Hemlock branch.

I love how the branch wraps around Eve at the waist.

No one would ever know I love the woods, trees, water and birds.

Finished 10 small painting/collage's

 I ended up going a different direction with the 8x10 's.
Tell me what you think. I started  to collage one of my bird photos and ended doing  mark making with a white pen.

I am thinking of selling them separately or I could combine them in one grouping to use in my show. After all there are birds in my woods when I go walking.

I will either go back to the river scene with the red gesso background or go into the sewing room and do some landscape quilts. One of my favorite things to do.

 

This is my favorite one. I am thinking of asking $45 including shipping in the US.

Getting a start on a new show. Walk through the woods with me.

 I have a solo show in May 2011 so I got busy yesterday.

Primed 24 bare canvases.

  with a mixture of blue, purple and black gesso.

 It makes a navy under-painting the shows through when I paint.

Gives a nice glow to the finished painting.

The  14 8"x10" canvases will be a series.

       I ordered 20 more 12" x 12" canvases
      from Blick to do another series.

                 This painting starts with  a Jasper red gesso.
                 I like using a color gesso  under-painting.
                 Adds another dimension to the painting.
                 The photograph of the Kankakee swamp is the subject.

                    This painting has the purple gesso under-painting.
                    The  finished painting will be spring tones.
                    The inspiration is the photo below I took in the 70's.

      I haven't decided yet what I am going to do with the leaves.
      My theme is "Walk through the woods with me"
     my favorite place to be.
      I just like the way they curled. Great shapes.



Attic finds,Hoar Frost, painting inspired by the frost

 Some of the items that will be half priced Saturday the last day of my open houses. I need to empty the attic to make room for a room. Come  help me do so.

Hoar Frost in Indiana in the winter.  I was at the end of our road taking photos when the nice state trooper reminded me to put on my flashers if  I am going to sit in the street and take pictures even though it was 6 am and there wasn't any traffic.  Good advice.

The painting inspired by the woods when I was  taking hoar frost photos.