3 posts tagged “art quilting”
The healing doll adventure took a turn while stranded in my van for 17+ hours over the weekend with a flat tire I could not get off my car without help in a no cell phone reception area. Luckily I had been to the store and not unloaded the van yet so I had art books, my sketch pad, a couple magazines, some wine, cheese, cantaloupe, and crackers to keep me company while I waited for someone to come by and find me. I
sorta figured Dave is not going to open to getting a "doll" doll... so I
turned it into a healing doll book, sorta.... I had already designed a
doll on a quilt for a challenge I doing on yahoo so designing his was
easy.
The rough drafts:
First mine as taken a week ago, I cannot post the finished project until the challenge is over:The very rough sketch is in the upper left corner, option 1, the one for my challenge, is in the top right ( The Goddess Of The Last Minute, and although I am very happy with the final piece, time has been added to the challenge so I have been busy adding more to her ). The bottom one is a second option I am working on, you cannot tell from the picture but the darker star covered area is glittery fabric. There is a two side front pieces on each that opens like a book those are embellished, and there is a zippered opening at the bottom to stuff the healing herbs into. Lot's of power symbols are being quilted and appliqued into the back ground.
Dave has made it clear he feels like an alien since the stroke, so I made
him into one on his version, in the rough draft the scribble down his right arm is
actually going to be Celtic knots, flowing from a Celtic knot heart if
I can figure out how to make one to lay over the red fabric heart.
Power symbols are being appliqued in healing colors and quilted onto
the back ground and onto the back. This one is also going to have the
zippered pouch area to hold
the herbs.
Both are about 9x12 inches.... the faces on all of them are paint painted and appliqued onto the doll. These are turning out to be lots of fun to make.
I have been researching healing symbols online and came across this cool rubber stamp website with lots of info on celtic symbols. Since Dave's doll is going to have knotwork down the right arm, going in that direction with the symbols seems like a gotta do to me. BTW, that site has some GREAT stamps, I plan to buy a couple of the round ones to use as my return address stamp and one for my art work hang tags/price tags. Really worth a closer look if you want stamps that are not the usual ho-hum stuff.
Some more of their round personal designs can be seen here.
While looking for more info on healing colors, yes I am learning as I go on this project... I stumbled onto this aura colors test. The results were quite intriguing. It links to a book on the subject, but the test and the outcome were not your usual stupid stuff. My daughter assures me the outline of the two I tied for (magenta and abstract tan) fits me like a glove. I have read them several times now and I am not sure if I should write her out of my will or not in return for that opinon. heh
Nothing blew up or went flat on me today, that's always good. Now I need some sleep....
This is my 1st art quilt ever, only they didn't call them that back then. It was created in 1978, I think, (not sure of the date), 3 1/2 feet long by 18 inches wide. I rediscovered it today, yes... there is a sun in it too, I guess I have always been a sun obsessed woman.
I was fighting a one woman battle to reclaim my life from Agoraphobia/anxiety attacks at the time.I saw a couple books by Jean Ray Laury thanks to the neighborhood book mobile, ( one on wearable art and one on soft sculpture), and I was so inspired by her books that I wrote to her (in those days artist/writers actually put their mailing address on the dust cover info if you can imagine), Jean kindly talked me through creating this wall hanging via snail mail, she also taught me soft sculpture via letters, and she sent me copies of all her books autographed with wonderful words of encouragement. Into the 80's we mailed back and forth, in fact she talked me into submitting my first manuscript to a magazine and sent me a small flower arrangement when a magazine bought my first article. She is truly a nice woman, but looking back at it now, I was an idiot, and she deserved a metal
for dealing with me at all....let alone encouraging me. Good gawd...
I've come a long way baby
Still I did something right, almost 30 years later, and in spite of horrific storage practices, it is still in great shape overall.... a monument to a turning point in my life. Somehow it has survived the years, and so have I.
The possibilities are endless..................
