Fredericksburg Art Guild

Good Sunday morning all! The textile painting below, Creek During Summer, was entered into the Fredericksburg Art Guild's 40th annual show which was jurored by Lee Casbeers. It won a second place ribbon! Thank you, Lee, for the critique.

New Landscapes

Hello, from Central Texas.  Wow, we are having a glorious Sunday.  The pastures are beginning to show tinges of green after our rains.  Although the rains were not a drought buster, they were very welcome.  Below are my fantasy landscapes.  This is how I wish our country looked!

Creek During Summer, 2011.  Hanging at the Copper Shade Tree in Round Top, Tx.
framed to 26x30.

 I am a member of Studio Art Quilters Association which is a fabulous and creative group devoted to art quilts.  The Texas chapter was asked to decorate the walls of an exhibit at the Houston International Quilt Festival during November.  The quilts will all be 9x12 with a hanging sleeve attached.  Here are two of the three I will have at the display.

 Spring Flowing in Fall, 2011.

9x12 with hanging sleeve.

Autumn Morning, 2011.

9x12 with hanging sleeve.

Cotton Voile Scarves

Greetings!  I have found a new toy on the internet.  It is called Spoonflower.com.  This company prints your designs on various types of fabric.  What could be cooler?  I uploaded some of my landscape photographs and started playing.  Then, I uploaded photos of my fiber art and life really got interesting.  I am using Gimp to manipulate colors and then upload to Spoonflower to printed on cotton voile.  Finally, I make the scarves.  I chose cotton voile over silk because this is Texas.  Cotton is just so much more wearable.  After wearing my scarves, I have discovered that they stay put whereas silk scarves are always sliding around.  I have several styles of scarves and several prints.  Take a peak at:  http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/debbie_g.   I have also included photos of my scarves.  All of these are for sale at the Copper Shade Tree in Round Top or by contacting me.

 Large Ruffle from the Longhorn and Calf print.

 Long Rectangle from the Bluebonnet and Strips print with beaded fringe.

 Small ruffle from the Mason Bluebonnets print with eyelash fringe.

 25" square from the Longhorn and Calf print.

 Small spiral from the Llano River Blues print.

 Medium Ruffle from the Longhorn and Calf print.

 Large Ruffle from the Mason Blues print.

Scarf poncho from the Bluebonnets and Stripes print.


Greetings!  I have found a new toy on the internet.  It is called Spoonflower.com.  This company prints your designs on various types of fabric.  What could be cooler?  I uploaded some of my landscape photographs and started playing.  Then, I uploaded photos of my fiber art and life really got interesting.  I am now having these manipulated photos printed on cotton voile and then making scarves.  I chose cotton voile over silk because this is Texas.  Cotton is just so much more wearable.  After wearing these scarves, I have discovered that they stay put whereas silk scarves are always sliding around.  I have several styles of scarves and several prints.  Take a peak at:  http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/debbie_g.   Attached photos of my scarves.  All of these are for sale at the Copper Shade Tree in Round Top or by contacting me.

Here is a sneak peak at a new print.

Hill Country Blossoms

So, I said that I was really struggling with the prickly pear picture.  I found a solution!   I literally cut out the prickly pears and blossoms which I liked.  Then I made a desert background and stitched the prickly pear and blossoms onto it.  I framed it in a simple brown frame flecked with gold and bronze.  It is now for sale at Copper Shade Tree Gallery in Round Top!  It is 11x14.

Prickly pear blossoms

I am struggling with this one.  I still need to do lots of thread work on it, i.e., adding the thorns with a varigated yellow to brown thread.   I think I am going to just go forward even though I want to stop!

In this picture, I am also experimenting with using larger pieces of fabric instead of giblets.

Bluebonnet

I keep working with these blues.  I just love them.  For this 5x7 bluebonnet image, I chose to make my own mats and then wrap around stretcher boards to for an 8x10 gallery wrap.  I think it works!

Butterfly Roses

In Fredericksburg, the city has used the butterfly rose (Rosa Mutabilis) in many of the plantings, most notably at Markt Platz.  It is a beautiful antique type single rose which has 3 colors on one bush.  As the blossom ages it turns colors before shattering.  It is truly lovely.  Here is one of my photos of my rose bush.

This last week I did this 8x10 rendering of these roses.