Challenge 69

Perspective on the Lone Triangle Blues

SEA OF HOLES

I finally finished my "Beatles" Quilt , a month late :-(...Oh well, better late than never, yes?

The Beatles 'song' I chose has no lyrics.  It is from Yellow submarine..."Sea of Holes".

I used cotton for the base, silver lame for the main shapes (foreground), and many different sheers for all the shading.  The bright colors are all from one piece of  my hand dyed fabric.  Free motion quilted.  Metal decorative rivets applied.

It measures 22"x15 1/2"

LOVE the Beatles!!!  good challenge...

Comments and suggestions gratefully received,

Cherie

Octopus's Garden

18" x 23"

I first thought of doing Maxwell's Silver Hammer -- but I don't like the images from that song!  Octopus's Garden has a much more cheerful image, "knowing you're happy and you're safe!"  And I had just received the background fabric which is a perfect sea bed, so that decided it.

The design decisions included: should the child have trunks?  a pillow?  and does it really matter if the octopus only has seven tentacles?  I decided no on all these points!  I added some glitter on the octopus, to liven him up, and foil on the child, plus a few bubbles on the left, which are hard to see in this photo.  I used up almost all of the background fat quarter, including putting it wrong-side up in the background behind the octopus's head.

This was a fun piece, and even if I'm posting a bit late, I really only got started on it last Wednesday!  I welcome your comments.

It Was A Musical Year

"When I'm 64" is a great little song, full of visual imagery. I chose these lines from the first stanza:..."Will you still be sending me a valentine, birthday greetings, bottle of wine?" I love the whimsy of this song! Anyway, the background is a collaged mishmash of acrylic paint, ink, torn wrapping tissue and pattern paper. It also has a layer of textured organza fused over the top. All the other elements are layered and fused. The label on the wine bottle is zentangled; both the bottle and wine glass have acrylic painted details. Note the date on the neck of the bottle - appropriate, don't you think?!
My quilt measures 19"w x 21" and hasn't yet been quilted because I am about to run out of time - the hubby and I are leaving for a Mediterranean cruise in less than a week!

Imagine

My inspiration for the challenge was John and His  historical song Imagine 1971

You Make Me Dizzy Miss Lizzy

I chose to do "You Make Me Dizzy Miss Lizzy".  The backgkround is hand dyed. The dancers are printed, the music notes are beads.  It was fun but very challenging to try to depict more emotion in  color and movement than the actual representation of figures and places.  Good mind opener.  Thanks!

Pat Havey

I Wanna Hold Your Hand:

Still Crazy and Nuts About Him After All These Years!

The Beatles' song that inspired this metal quilt is "I Wanna Hold Your Hand"

The quilt background is a crazy patch. The hands also represent a lifetime partnership.

Female hand: silver nuts . Male hand: gold washers

Yellow Submarine

I loved this Challenge. It was like a walk down memory lane revisiting my teen years. Yellow Submarine was composed by Paul McCartney in 1966, the year before I graduated from high school. I remember well the "hippy era" with all the peace symbols, love beads, flowers and butterflies. It was a time when "All You Need is Love." I chose the background fabric because it seemed rather psychadelic. I couldn't believe I found the border fabric in my stash, which has peace symbols as the center of the flowers. I printed out the Beatles' picture with the Yellow Submarine from the Internet onto fabric. I downloaded the free Yellow Submarine font and printed out the words OK, Love and Yes, as well as phrases from the song onto fabric: "So we sailed up to the sun, Till we found a sea of green And we lived beneath the waves.We all live in a yellow submarine." The Yellow Submarine represented the escapists of the 1960's. The song was made into a movie in 1999, so I used the "Blue Meanies", the Flying Hand, and the green apple from the movie. I added heart-shaped beads to represent the Love Generation. I printed out Paul McCartney's signature on "The Hard Day" album cover onto fabric and added that in the upper corner. It was fun creating this collage. Thank you for a great challenge.

Long Tall Sally

When I was going through the song titles, one made me stop!  "Long Tall Sally"---what more did I need?

This is really not collage but is the fastest I've ever done one of the challenges!  It is 7" x 10 1/2".  I had some scraps of fused fabrics and these fit.

The Devil in Her Heart

I chose The Devil in Her Heart as my inspiration. This was made on a 12x12" piece of thin plywood. I used fabric, magazine photos, colored pencils and markers. The words I used on it are little sections of the lyrics to go with the images I chose. Basically the fortune teller is trying to tell the man that the woman is no good and will hurt him, he is denying it and saying she's an angel and mentioning the things he likes best. I don't have the proper equipment to use with collage yet, specifically a brayer, fingers don't work well smoothing out photos from magazines so I have wrinkles, but I enjoyed making this anyway!

Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds

I chose the song "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" to illustrate.  Growing up then everyone knew the title referred to the drug LSD.  I used sky fabric sliced and partially grayed to depict the light and dark of the drug, mostly dark layered upon silver fabric.  I found some old star fabric and used them and beads to show the diamond light.  Lucy everyone will recognize from Peanuts.  Angel wings were added to elevate her into the sky.

The Long and Winding Road 16” X 17” The lyric I chose is: The long and winding road that leads to your door… While searching for fabric, I found two partial projects from a Vikki Pignatelli workshop that I tore apart and rearranged the pieces to make this one. I do not think I achieved the collage portion of the challenge but I had fun and experimented with some free motion designs. I also eliminated two UFO’s!! YEA! I am limited with fabric and embellishments as most are packed waiting until we have a more permanent residence. Thank you Julia for a fun, inspiring challenge. Comments and critiques are appreciated. Pam Harris

Challenge 69 - Pop Art

Challenge 69 “ Pop” Art                     May 25, 2012    Due:  June 2^nd

Host: Julia Arden

Use the title or lyrics of a Beatles (or Beatles member) song to inspire you.  Collage would be an appropriate method of construction, but not essential.

Find Beatles songs with lyrics at- http://www.azlyrics.com/b/beatles.html

This is an excellent essay on the nature of art and its components, including the trivial, which can develop into good art, following on from our Gestalt ideas of challenge 68.

http://www.ndoylefineart.com/artmaking2.html

Here is an example of a piece of art inspired by the lyrics of Blackbird.

http://illustratemusic.livejournal.com/3317.html

In quilts, Susan Carlsson uses collage techniques, often using realistic subjects. http://www.susancarlson.com/Quilts/Quilts.html

 David Walker is another collage expert, with many abstract examples. http://davidwalker.us/Pages/Q_QUILTS_HOME.html

Many of our members work in collage, including Cynthia Ann Morgan. Her namesake Cynthia Morgan from Australia also uses collage in her quilts. http://cynthiamorgandyequilts.com.au/

There are many quilt artists who use collage in fabric, mixed media or photography, such as Judy Momenzadeh  http://miamithreads.blogspot.co.nz/2012/02/ and Leslie Riley http://www.lesleyriley.com/gallery.php?cat=1

There are some famous collage artists like Romare Beardon and Kurt Schwitters

http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibition/schwitters

http://www.dailyartfixx.com/2010/09/02/romare-bearden-1911-1988/

http://www.nga.gov/education/classroom/bearden/memnc1.shtm

Collage in general can be explored at

http://www.collageart.org/links/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collage

http://www.loveofcollage.blogspot.com/

http://www.collageartists.org/artists.html

I had some difficulty when looking at past works by members of FFFC to decide which were collage and which were appliqué. I think for myself, collage would have to mean the assemblage of somewhat unrelated items to create an impression, rather than using appliqué to interpret a scene, landscape, portrait or abstract idea.

Have fun everyone!