Last weekend, I was up at Wupatki National Monument (http://www.nps.gov/wupa/) with some friends. Its one of those wonderful attractions that we only see when we have out of towners around! The ruins date back over 800 years and have been carefully restored. With this challenge in mind, I took lots of pix!
My inspiration was the doors of the ruins:
And the quilt:
It's about 9 x 12" with lots of little pieces fused to the background, heavily stitched. What I like: the shadows worked great, the colors are pleasing. What I don't like: I should have done the floor with longer skinnier pieces or larger interlocking pieces (altho its really sandy there). But overall, I'm pleased. Comments of course, are welcome!
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Wendy, This is awesome! Are are the stones and bricks individual pieces? I love the colors and the shadows, they're perfect.
I agree with you on the front part though...it seems as though there is no space from the front of the door and the 1st wall, as shown in original photo, but that the bigger stones are the lower part of the wall, and it is a window, not a door. At least to my eye :-D
But that doesn't change the overall effect of your piece at all. Great job!
Great job achieving depth and shadows/light. I am partial to this sort of art anyhow. I love what you've done with it overall.
Great job on giving the adobe bricks so much interest with your color variation. The shadows are perfect. Nice piece.
Wendy, what a wonderful job you did on this challenge. The shadows really make this piece work well, and I love the color variation in the stones. Did you use paint, or was all the variety acheived with different fabrics?
Wendy, Well done! I love the intricacy of this piece with all the different colored bricks. The depth is very skillfully handled, and the lights and shadows really answered the planes and masses part of the challenge. It has a very real sense of substance.
Since y'all asked.... all the bricks are tiny little pieces, from about 12-14 different batiks, fused and then just scribble stitched in place. The individual pieces are about 1/8" by 1" - oy! It was very fun actually.... listening to books on audio and watching the rain outside my window!
The ruins are all sandstone (plentiful in these parts), believed to be hand cut and adobe'd into place. The restored site of course is concrete mortar.
The finished size is 9x12" so you can see there were a lot of iddy biddy pieces!
I'm taking a class from Esterita Austin this summer... I consider this practice. Susan, thanks for a great challenge!
Wendy... so great to see your work! I always am impressed with what you do. this is very, very well done. I am late in posting, but surely do appreciate this, very much.
Good job!!!
and all the iddy-biddy bits are what make it.
Hi Wendy, you're back! Good for you and us. Wonderful piece, too. The shadows, the variety of colors and shapes of the stones and that great sky...very effective and full of interest. The only thing I could say is that I wish the sky in the "window" was more pure hue of yellow or blue...I think it might pop more. I actually like that there is less detail on the floor of the piece as it brings the focus to the wall right away. Great job!
Cynthia
Hi Wendy,
This one is just fantastic. More aching to get back out west!
Brenda
Your bricks are awesome....great job!
I think you already mentioned the floor and a change you would make.
I agree with you.
Kathy
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