Fractured Rose

The Art Quilt group at CCQ is doing a challenge with fractured photos.
We selected from a big bunch of photos, and in the end chose 2. 1 is a rose, which happened to be a photo I took at the Portland Rose Garden.











First I printed it the finished size, and drew around the petals to use them as a pattern.




















Then I painted each petal on white muslin using acrylic paints.
I cut them out and assembled them on parchment paper, and fused them together




















I fused the whole shebang to a piece of green fabric 17" square. Then I stitched around the petals with about 5 different pink threads.
We are going to cut them up later today, pass out the pieces and make a fractured flower from the pieces of everybody's work. FUN!!!

Northwest Rain Flower

Not Quite a Sunflower... rain drops for petals.
Not the best image but its given away so...

5 X 7

10 talents 1000 thoughts

My guild had a self portrait challenge so I made this pixel portrait. I had no idea how to get the tones right, but it was fun and possibly looks like me. I used a photo and my son explained how to pixelize it in photoshop, using only 10 colors. The title is because its 10 colors and 1000 pieces.

A few months later my genius niece came by (age 13) and said oh, you can get the tones right by scanning the fabrics in b&w, and then turn your photo into a b&w , then you can see if the tones are right or not. HA! where are the genuis children when you need them?