Conservation Quotes

My FAN group is exhibiting at the Jacksonville Main Library in October. The theme is "The Language of Conservation." This is my spray painted/stenciled entry. I googled the word "conservation" to come up with the definition, synonyms and some quotes to use. I backed the spray painted/stenciled canvas with felt and stitched the words. I cut it up and arranged the pieces. The hanger is a piece of driftwood with a crocheted cord. Hope it gets juried in!! I entered a couple of art quilts as well.

A close up of the piece.

A close up of the top.

"Conservation Quotes"

The painted canvas. I wrote in large letters the synonyms of conservation: protection, management, preservation, safe guard, safekeeping, restoration and maintenance using a marker. Then I spray painted using many stencils.

Spray painting and Stenciling

This is the cover. I love Mary Ann's technique of dribbling paint from a squeeze bottle to make marks. I just love this lime color.

I've been quiet I know. Here are some of my pages for my new Stencil book. I'm taking another online class from Mary Ann Moss. This class involves spray painting, stenciling and stitching. I'm still working on the spray painting and stenciling - particularly the colors of paint. There's a learning curve. I'm not happy with my colors but I think that after adding stamps and collage elements, I'm be much happier. But that will all have to wait until I'm back from my Alaska land and sea cruise. I leave tomorrow. I'm taking a journal which I hopefully will fill with collage and words.

One Among Many is Finished

All finished.

Fiber Pieces take Some Time

"One Among Many" (just a detail) begin with my enchantment over my work table paint cover. I added stenciling and white circles and then machine quilted the piece. I've added fabric beads and seed beads. There's appliqued circles that I have to stitch down. The binding is all done. Yeah.My FAN group (check the right sidebar for further information) put out a challenge to make a 15 x 15" piece using this paper.

This is a close-up image. I had a great time. I appliqued the paper flower and quilted the piece. I then layered the orange batik onto felt, cut out the petals and stitched them individually and attached them down the center of the petals to the quilt. I crocheted a little orange spiky flower and added another flower and attached both with a teeny button. What fun!

The color of this image isn't accurate. The detail image is more like the real piece.

This blurred image is a mock-up of a larger piece that I'll be entering in my local art association (check Island Art Association link for further information). This is a relatively simple piece but I like it.

Yesterday's Stenciling

A favorite stencil I cut modifying a magazine ad. Lace background with 2 of my cut outs using images from internet stencil site and from a Dover book.

Lace background with crab stencil (from internet)

Lace background and my own cut out of bird from a photo.

The following images were printing on 6"square Bristol paper pad, making a small portfolio. The first: doily background, then 3 of my own stencils of Kara, Matt and Baxter.

The following are various various: my own and store bought

All in all, great fun!!! It's sure hot here in Florida making the wearing of the respirator sweaty business.

I came up with the idea of gessosing white canvas to tape to my printing board as I seem to like the results of the overspray. I shall see.

Stenciling

Just having a fun time with spray paints and inks, using plastic doily, cloth doily and a stencil I cut from online source.

This is my cloth paint mat cover. I just loves the texture so added stenciling and acrylic circles. Think I'm stitch and call it done! This is my t-shirt. After doing a few, I've decided I'm not very neat so I will do the rest using stencils and discharge.

Another cool page using plastic doily, scrap paper cut-up, my bird stencil and lace trimming.

Now, I'm heading out to spray some more!

Cutting my own Stencils

These are some of my latest efforts at cutting my own stencils. I'm using an electric stencil cutter and transparencies. Pelican - a favorite seabird. Dancing woman My daughter, more pelicans. Silhouettes of my son-in-law, daughter and their Baxter.

My youthful mom, my dad, my mother-in-law and last but not least, me.

I've sprayed using inks on pages of an old, old book.