A few weeks back, I finished a new quilt inspired by this photo I took on the eastern New Mexico plains between Portales and Roswell. I'm usually traveling through that part of my trip around sunset (depending on the time of year) and for years I've been taking quick pics of the sky from the side of the road. So often the colors and clouds are just amazing.
I put the picture into photoshop, did some digital adjustments and abstractions, and sent it to spoonflower for printing on a shiny white satin type fabric. Of course I forgot to save any of those files- I'm sure they're somewhere but I can't find them. After starting I pieced a background out of these three other shiny fabrics- that dark blue is one of my favorite fabrics (ever), it's shiny but not too much, it has a great hand, and a beautiful subtle color shift from navy to dark turquoise depending on the angle. There's a piece of gold in the middle and then on the right is a shiny textured brownish gold that I love- it was the background for my yucca quilt many years ago, and the scrap I had left was perfect for this project. I cut the printed abstracted photo into about six pieces and mosaiced them onto the background. It was pretty tricky to get them straight and the grout lines even.
I mostly quilted along the tile lines in the photo, with some other quilting continuing off to the side.
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| High Plains of New Mexico, Shannon Conley, c. 2019, 26" x 38", photo by Mike Cox |
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| High Plains of New Mexico, Shannon Conley, c. 2019, 26" x 38", photo by Mike Cox |
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| High Plains of New Mexico, Shannon Conley, c. 2019, 26" x 38", photo by Mike Cox |
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| High Plains of New Mexico, Shannon Conley, c. 2019, 26" x 38", photo by Mike Cox |
I really love the way it turned out. The shiny fabric coupled with the colors in the sky make it feel luminous in person. And even though it's very abstract, I feel like it captures a little of the feel of those wide open plains. It's currently hanging at the 1894 Gallery in Texarkana Arkansas as part of the Our Heritage thru the Arts show. It'll be up until November 30, 2019, so anyone who's in that part of the world should stop by and see it!
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You amaze me with your variety and vision. This is an excellent rendition of those skies. Kudos for translating it into a finished piece.
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ReplyDeleteWow - this is terrific. Love the colors, the fabric and the quilting. You do such fun projects.
ReplyDeleteFabulous! I like the way you have abstracted the photo. I love Spoonflower and you have used it to its best advantage.
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