This piece began with sun dyeing muslin using Dye-na-Flow, cut paper shapes, and plant material [read: weeds!] from my yard. It’s a fun, quick and easy process. A fellow art quilter loaned me a wonderful Fred B. Mullet fish stamp that I applied with black and gold textile paints.
As I worked on the piece, this narrative kept going through my head: Five fancy fish, freely floating, fleetly flitting, and fitly finning from Fiji to France, from Finland to Formosa. Fascinating, friendly…and flagrantly flirting! -- Fresh Fish!
I had notions of somehow including that text via free-motion quilting, but I’m just not that good! Maybe one day.
12"x26"
Enjoy, and feedback welcomed.
Robert Hartley
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8 comments:
Great job. Like your techniques with the paints and stamps.
Great idea as well as good job.
Fabulous and fantastic! I love the colors, the F and the swimming fish.
Lovely colors, and a nice combination of techniques. And I'd like to see that alliterative line on it - maybe using a micron pen, around the edges?
This is a fun piece, Robert. The more I look at it the more I see. The fish stamp is great and adds another layer of visual interest. I, too would like to see the alliteration included on the quilt, at least in part.
This is a really fine piece of ART! Big congratulations.
This really looks like an underwater scene!
I like the dimension created by stamping the fish over the letter.
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