When I was on the Human Marks workshop with Dorothy Caldwell in Puglia, I took a photo of my index finger stained and ingrained with Indian ink after a morning of making fingerprint marks.
I manipulated the photo in Photoshop, dividing it into 6 overlapping sections, and printed it out on a commercial batik (with marks that reminded me of my fingerprints) treated with bubblejet set.
Machine quilted .
I'm enjoying working to the 40 x 80 cm size although this is actually 38 x 80 cm as I didn't 'measure twice, cut once' when trimming to size as I usually do. An extra 2cm on the RH side would have made all the difference. Ah well, lesson learnt.
what a beautiful piece!!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad that I'm not the only one who is making things approximately to size. I'm telling myself that if all the quilts were precisely the same it would be boring, whereas quilts that are all pretty much the same are much more artistic.
Great piece! I really like the way you extended the lines of the fingerprint beyond the finger! Can you tell us more about the bubble jet? My mother bought it and that is already end of story. I am sort of shying away from it - scared that it will jumble up in the printer and get stuck in there...
ReplyDeleteI'll do a post summarising how to do it - I've been using it for years
DeleteI LOVE the fact that the finger (?print) is not exactly in the middle. It makes it a really strong piece!
ReplyDeleteWhen I showed this piece yesterday at Thames Valley Contemporary Textile group, someone who was viewing it from across the room told me afterwards she saw it as a bridge arch with a boat in the shadows.
ReplyDeleteNow that you say it I do see the boat - but it would be a very archy bridge, sort of like St. Louis Arch over the river... So perhaps it is a dream boat under the protection of your/the viewer's soul?
DeleteI really like it looks very nice.
ReplyDeleteI really like it looks very nice.
ReplyDeleteI really like it looks very nice.
ReplyDeleteI really like it looks very nice.
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