And now something completely different / iets anders...

De huiswerk opdracht van de quilten speciaal cursus ging over spontaan werk maken, op papier. Dit schilderij gaat over omhullen - begrenzen. Zoals een jas je omhullen en begrenzen kan.
Aan alle kanten zie ik er sprookjesachtige figuren en dieren in en ben er erg tevreden over.
Ik heb er een canvas print van laten maken om te onderzoeken of ik het nog meer kan uitwerken met stof.

paper, acrylic paint, graphite pencil
60x60 cm

The homework assignment of the Quilten Speciaal course was about spontaneously working on paper.
This painting is about bound, border, wrap (too much English words and non of them is appropriate). Like a coat that surrounds you.
I am very pleased with it. On all sides I see fairy tale figures and animals.
I also have made a canvas print, to explore whether I can work further with fabric.

Herstquilt opdracht Quilten Speciaal

De 10e opdracht van de cursus Quilten Speciaal: maak een herfstquilt waarin het ontvangen herfststofje verwerkt wordt.

Jammer genoeg is dat bij mij niet gelukt - het herfststofje erin verwerken dan.

spunfab with autumn-fabric
Dit zit er dus niet in - This is not in it

Na het maken van de ondergrond was het sowieso heel moeilijk om er iets passend-herfstigs bovenop te maken omdat ik de ondergrond te mooi vond om te bedekken. Daar gaat je plan!
Uiteindelijk heb ik het niet eens gebruikt omdat ik het liever zo wilde laten en heb een
2e ondergrond gemaakt die veel egaler is en meer passend.

Canvas, abacatissue, paper, gesso, brusho, acrylic paint, gel medium
Deze is het ook niet geworden - Finally I did not use this surface

Interessant vond ik het om te merken dat machinaal borduren totaal wegviel in de ondergrond.

Uiteindelijk is het dit geworden. Het werk heeft wat weg van spinnenwebben op een herfstochtend, vind ik.

Canvas, abacatissue, gesso, brusho, acrylic paint, gel medium, double cotton covered copper wire, machine embroidery

detail

The 10th assignment of the Quilts special course was making an autumn quilt. We had to use an autumn fabric in it. We all received the same one .
Unfortunately I did not succeed in that - in using that special fabric.

After making the surface it was very difficult to design something appropriate on top because I did not like to cover the surface. I liked it very much the way it is. There goes the plan!
Ultimately, I have not been using it and made a 2nd surface much smoother and more appropriate for the top.

I found it interesting to note that machine embroidery totally disappeared in the background by the way.
I think this work looks like cobwebs in the morning of an autumn day.

Quilten speciaal

I wanted to finish a lot of unfinshed work this summer, but I realized that I did not dot that at all.
I was buzzy dyeing, dyeing and dyeing... Anyway the quilten speciaal course started again last week.

For homework we had to make two small selfportraits that would express two sides of our personality. I made an aspect of my personality from fathers side and one from mothers side.



Procion mx dyeing with deconstructed screenprinting - collaged

I made something that resembles a box(brown colored book covers). The selfportraits are inside and on the outside I have put some fabric I made:



Front I: procion mx dyeing, fabric paint and foil made with a waxed-screenprint



Front II: a carved board clamp resist dyeing technique dyed with an ancient dye called safflower.

Kesa

At the 'quilten speciaal' course we had to make a Kesa. A Kesa is a large shawl (?). In ancient times in Japan, Buddhist people wore one. Yesterday I saw a newspaper picture of Chinese monks and they wore one too.

A Kesa surrounds you. It is a mandala with yourself in the centre of it. There is a traditional way to design one, the more columns in your Kesa for instance the more important you are (the emperor has got 25 columns) and even there is a 'formula'about measures. That is because not every one has the same length. A Kesa has to be sown by hand.

cotton painted with dye-na-flow, pebeo setacolor shimmer,
on top painted polyester voile

Because there was only little time to make one, it is not made to measure.
I made a small Kesa 50x65 cm.

Traditionaly the columns have to be sown by hand. I used bondaweb (...). On top of the Kesa I used a few stitches to show that these stitches are the proper ones to sew the piece together, only I used it for embroidery.

A few details of the piece:

and this one

and the back!

Take a look at other quilten speciaal students' weblog and see what they have done with the assignment
Marloes: http://textielverfenderest.web-log.nl/textielverfenderest/2009/07/kesa.html
Marjon: http://marjonquilt.blogspot.com/2009/06/kesa.html
Sandra: http://madebysandra.blogspot.com/2009/06/quilten-speciaal.html
Marion: http://marionartquilts.web-log.nl/marion_artquilts/2009/06/de-laatste-opdr.html