Fast Friday Fabric Challenge: Challenge 47

Out on a Limb

FFFC #47 for July 2010 (due July 31^st)

Host: Tobi Hoffman

Back when I was in third or fourth grade, my parents enrolled me in a Saturday art course at Morton Arboretum in Lisle, IL. The one thing I remember most from that class was a method for drawing a tree: draw a line from the root, up the trunk, along branches until you end up at a twig, and continue doing this until you have filled up the entire tree with twigs. The trunk and branches grow a bit every time you draw those lines to put in another twig. I may not be able to draw a face recognizable as its subject, but I can still draw a tree! While this method is not as applicable to quilt art unless you are doing thread-painting, it introduces the theme of today’s challenge - the theme is trees, whether a seedling, or a seed, a twig, branch, a single tree, a grouping, or a forest – but look at it from a new angle.

Technique: Go out on a limb to try a technique that is new to you to create your tree. Take a point of view that is different from your usual one, bird’s eye, caterpillar’s eye, a pilot’s view, or a worm’s. Try a new way to embellish your piece, or incorporate some element you have never tried before. Use your least favorite color, and make it look good. Pull out crayons, beads, yarn, Angelina fiber, all of the above or none, but don’t forget one thing – have fun!

Links:

http://pcoxdesign.blogspot.com/ 2/7/10, 3/6/10 posts, Patty VanHuis- Cox

http://www.davidtaylorquilts.com/gallery.html

http://www.wellingtonarts.ca/wcm/documents/wcm/Threadwork2010CAT.pdf

(A whole show of tree art!)

From past FFFC’s:

http://fastfridayquilts.blogspot.com/2007/07/monets-lesterel-mountains.html Betty Donahue

http://fastfridayquilts.blogspot.com/2007/11/moonlit-swamp.html Delta (Rhonda Blasingame)

http://fastfridayquilts.blogspot.com/2008/09/mossy-delight.html Lisa Albanese

http://www.tobicollage.com/collages-nature/last-leaf.htm Tobi Hoffman (improved from blog)

http://fastfridayquilts.blogspot.com/2008/12/freedom.html Lisa Albanese

http://fastfridayquilts.blogspot.com/2009/04/untitled-challenge-31.html Susan Brittingham