Maybe I should go back to the beginning of all of this surreal show stuff

My first instinct for a quilt was based on this image that I created years ago. I don’t know why I left that idea behind and moved onto the woman tree thing. I should have stuck with this idea I think. It’s not exactly what was approved, but it does have a woman, trees, and birds. 

Here’s the original and my first sketch. 

This keeps popping up in my mind so I just played with this idea some more. I thought the crows should be flying to the vortex.

So this has evolved into this one below. I think grayscale is good for a dream. It needs editing, but as art quilters we can do that. I would have to be careful with values.

So should I stick with the woman tree or go back to my first idea? Help appreciated.

Thanks for reading.

Chris

I have reevaluated

I was so sick of the woman tree with gold tear that I decided to move on from it and create something different. Why was I sick of it? I did not think it was surreal enough no matter what bird I tried. Believe me I tried many different ones….raven, barred owl, barn owl, heron, crane, puffin, ducks…..nothing was working. Here’s the original image. I just can’t relate to this image and the gold tear. I was done. 

Of course this idea as well as the big eye in the sky were approved for the show. So I have to stick with those concepts. So after a lot of thinking and research and analysis I have arrived at this idea. It’s still a woman tree, raven, and the eye in the sky, but I think it’s more surreal and dream like. The gold tear is gone. I wanted surreal dream storm clouds. I wanted her out of the water. I wanted the eye to not be a human eye. I wanted the reflection to be a vortex. So this is where we are. I hope you think it’s surreal. 

On a lighter note I made our daughter a glow in the dark skeleton. She loves it. Apparently her cat loves it.

Thanks for reading. 

Chris

The curse of being an over analytical perfectionist

I suppose that might be a good thing at times, but most of the time it probably is not. I suppose being a perfectionist leads to being over analytical. At any rate that’s what I’m stuck with when creating art projects. 

I started pulling plastic bags for my streetcar recycle piece and find I cannot possibly create a blue gray piece from blue plastic bags. The blue bags are generally bright blues like teal, royal, and baby blue. I do have the dark blue needed for the sky, but not the rest of the piece that was proposed in this AI image.

So since I have to work with the limitations of plastic bags I decided to try a gray and blue combo. I have lots of gray bags.  Here’s that scheme in an AI image. So that’s my goal. Plastic bags are limited unlike fabric choices. I think gray and blue will be very good. 

Of course the over analysis doesn’t stop with this project. I got to thinking about the surreal image again. Here’s the original idea followed by the new idea. The crow was just too ordinary in surreal art. Many readers liked the barn owl. Well he’s back……

Are you a perfectionist? Over analytical? 

Thanks for reading. 

Chris

What color scheme to use

I have 2 thoughts about what color scheme to use for a night time snow image for my recycle piece. Should I go with blues or grayscale. If I do grayscale the streetcar would still be red. Almost like it’s in an old black and white photo. I suppose the decision will be made for me by what plastic bags I have. That’s what I’ll be looking at today. 

Here’s the photo I’m working from and AI images showing the color schemes. I do like the blue one better, but blue bags are harder to come by. I do have a lot of gray bags left over from last years Raven piece.

The decision may be out of my control.

Thanks for reading.

Chris