Trip around the island

Sometimes we do just that: driving around and see what's up.

This is the very dramatic Cupecoy beach. A lovely beach, which is continuously threatened by project developers...

Cotton plants galore along the dirt road that leads to this beach

(clickable image)

Coconut with fungus; I see a lot of these trees that are infected. Still I like the effect!

On another note: my translation series is slowly progressing. I hope to finish nr. 4, 5 and 6 by the end of this week. My days are furthermore filled with walking on the beach, body balance class two times per week, learning Spanish, reading (just finished Handle with Care by Jody Picoult, great book!), well that's about it. Even without a paid job days are too short ;-)

Thanks for visiting! (ps. like everybody Ilove comments...)

A perfect day

on this perfect beach on the island of

Sint Maarten

swimming, sunbathing, reading,

no time to blog!

That will follow in the days to come!

Playing around with images

I made this storyboard and just like the result.

No deeper meaning, just my love for traveling, colours and making pictures and collages combined

Possibilities...

The other day I received a big plastic bag from a friend. " They are kitsch, they are not my style", she said, "I would throw them away unless you want them..."

Want them??? Throw away?? No way!

So now they are waiting for me, until it's time to temporarily change from cloth and paper to beads and jewelry, omg, thinking of all possibilities...

Have a lovely, creative Wednesday,

grtz. Regina

The Series (continued)

The original design

(collage of magazine rip outs and pastel crayon on paper)

Translations #4

My interpretation in fabric. Trying to follow the design as closely as possible, while at the same time allowing me freedom if I want to.

It is a true balancing act, for if I allow myself too much freedom I fall back into old habits and favorite choices, and the goal was to work outside my comfort zone.

The three little art quilts I made until now do look very well together, also combined with the larger panel shown in this post. I look forward to make the next three, but that will be next week.

Today is beachday!

thanks for visiting, as always,

Have a great Sunday,

Regina

Halfway

This is the original design in paper that I referred to in this post.

This morning I finished nr. 3 , so I am halfway now and still enjoying this way of making art quilts!

The work below is my fabric translation of the top right design.

As you can see I have allowed myself more freedom already in my choice of fabrics, for I chose a rather painterly part of the top I mentioned instead of the pastel yellow part of the design. Though this fabric makes the work somewhat busy (maybe even very...), I still like the total effect.

Now nr. 3 is also finished, I see big possibilities in combining these in all kind of sequences. I just have to make sleeves for hanging these, will do that once the six are all ready. It's likely I will make a divided sleeve, so that I can hang them both horizontally and vertically.

Translations #3

13 x 13"

hand dyed and painted cotton, organza, polyester, arylic paint

raw edge applique, machine quilted

Thanks for visiting, to be continued...

I'm having a blast!

This is the first one in a series of 6. I described my way of working in this post and it is leading to surprises and lots of joy!

Translations # 2

13 x 13"

hand dyed cotton, decorator fabric, organza, polyester,

fused, machine stitched and quilted

The original design.

It is looking somewhat simple, but in the series of six it fits perfectly, will show a picture of that in my next post. I have overcome the big brown area with some of my favorite gold lame. The black fabric is a recycled top I sewed and hardly wore because it did not flatter me. I remember buying it at a market in Breda (NL), after having visited the annual exhibit of the Dutch Quilters Guild somewhere in the nineties; I do have a shawl and a little vest of the same fabric that I wear every now and then and still like. In the meantime I am proceeding with the other parts of this experiment, tune in to see the results in the next days.

Thanks for visiting!

Regina