Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Out of the deep

Hi all, I am back in the land of the living and more to the point, in the land of the creating, after knee replacement. The final months before the surgery and the recuperation kept me out of the studio but I am on a tear now and eager to resume sharing my art life and knowledge with you all again. I have a Facebook page now and will be posting there as well.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Nautilus-Fiberarts/219386980331

I cut some stencils this week for an interesting big quilt top. Years ago I made stencils of the big shells of fossil ammonites, extinct relatives of octopus and Chambered Nautilus. These shells are truly gorgeous things and the stencils have been useful for a series of quilts I called Strata.

My art quilt group High Fiber Diet is planning a travelling show called Elements, and our pieces are to be based on earth, air, fire and water. I decided to expand on the Strata theme and work through several geological eras, during the period when invertebrates (as opposed to fish) dominated ancient seas. (For those of you who do not know, my first career was in marine biology and I worked on octopus, as well as some of its relatives, and I have always been crazy about the beauty and diversity of invertebrate animals.

So the new stencils depict some really ancient arthropods called trilobites, some clam-like animals called brachiopods and some crinoids and urchins, relatives of starfish, as well as other shelled creatures that might be found as fossils. I have the big quilt top pasted and ready to dye, although it might be awhile before I finish it, as I have other things in the queue ahead of it.

These are the trilobite stencils. Aren’t they interesting?


5 comments:

Judy Warner said...

The stencils look great and your ideas for the quilt sound both intriguing and wonderfully appropriate for the theme.

CharlotteP said...

Just watched your ArtBeat clip on your website. Your katazome work is so beautiful...that tree stencil...ahhh! Awesome is a very over and mis-used word but that describes your work perfectly. I want to try it!! Thank you.

Unknown said...

台中人力仲介
料架
物料架
貨架
角鋼架
鐵架
組合櫃
移動櫃
倉儲
自動倉儲
工作桌
偵探
私家偵探
偵探社
台中大飯店
台中飯店
台中酒店
台中便宜飯店
台中飯店推薦
逢甲住宿
台中逢甲住宿
台中逢甲酒店住宿
逢甲夜市附近酒店
台中酒店住宿推薦
逢甲夜市飯店
一中街住宿
台中一中街住宿
台中新光三越住宿
馬拉灣住宿
麗寶樂園住宿
徵信
徵信社
徵信
徵信社
徵信
徵信社
徵信
徵信社
徵信
徵信社
徵信
徵信社

Unknown said...

徵信
徵信社
徵信
徵信社
徵信
徵信社
徵信
徵信社
高雄當舖
高雄當舖
信用貸款
民間貸款
民間信貸
房屋一胎
房屋二胎
花蓮民宿
電鍍設備
電鍍設備
二手托盘
塑料托盘
二手塑料托盘
澎湖三天兩夜
台中園藝
台中園藝公司
台中園藝造景
台中景觀設計
台中豪宅
台中七期豪宅
台中七期
台中住宿推薦
台中便宜住宿
台中精品住宿
台中酒店住宿
台中商務旅館
台中旅遊
台中旅館
台中旅館推薦
台灣旅館
台中一中街
隆鼻
隆鼻
削骨

Unknown said...

台中裝潢
台中裝潢公司
台中房屋拉皮
台中室內裝修
潭子房屋拉皮
豐原房屋拉皮
台中房屋拉皮
彰化房屋拉皮
乾濕分離
台中浴室翻新
台中浴室翻修
台中浴室整修
搬家公司推薦
台中搬家
台中搬家公司
濾水器
過濾器
牛樟芝
彰化婚宴
彰化婚宴餐廳
彰化婚宴會館
彰化喜宴場地
彰化喜宴餐廳
彰化港式飲茶
彰化港式料理
彰化餐廳
彰化餐廳推薦
彰化喜宴
包車旅遊
機場接送
台中房屋拉皮
台中舊屋翻新
台中外牆拉皮
台中浴室整修
房屋拉皮
台中房屋拉皮
房屋拉皮費用
外牆拉皮補助
台中油漆
台中油漆粉刷
台中油漆工程
手工水餃