A grand day out

Make that two!

Last Saturday I went to the Festival of Quilts. I actually spent nearly 5 hours there.  That beats my record for staying at a show by 3 hours!  Anyway, I thought I would share some of the quilts that caught my eye.

Sea Wall Redux by Rosie Epton-Peter

Stone Wall Journal by Linda Turner

Texture & Tiles by Ursual Bowen

Landscape by Grietje van der Veen

Fragments by Judith Barker

Surface III by Isabelle Wiessler

Reflections Reflecting by Peggy Brown

There were a few map related ones as well.   Can you see the recurring themes in the quilts I chose to photograph?
Colours - the use of a limited palette
Geometry - the use of squares and rectangles without being traditional patchwork

So on to my second day out.  It was my birthday and I got to choose where we went.  I chose Winterbourne House and Garden which is quite local but we have never been.

 

It's hard to believe that this is so very close to the centre of the city.  It was so beautiful.

There was a print room with old printing presses and lots of printing blocks.  This is only ever open on a Friday but our visit was on Wednesday.  And it was open! 

And then to top it all off there was an art exhibition which featured amongst others - Steph Redfern.

Two really lovely days out.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

Glimpses of Jesus 33

Glimpses of Jesus in the Old Testament is a year long bible study written by Simon Clay of Jubilee Church Solihull.   You can join in at any time.

Today's post is about the prophecy in Isaiah 7 regarding the birth of Jesus.

If you have followed my blog for any amount of time you will know that I rarely include pictures or photos of people in my work.  And I certainly don't draw them so today's journal page was well out of my comfort zone.

I drew first with a 6B pencil and then went over that lightly with a Stabilo All aquarelle pencil.

With a smalll brush and some clean water I went over the Stabilo pencil and dragged the brush a little to get the grey.   I stamped the word Immanuel.

Do have a look back through the posts on the Glimpses of Jesus blog where you will find links to other people's art and poetry.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice
 

ExTex session 2

Our second session of ExTex was all about printing blocks.

We made blocks with sticky back foam on coreboard from the designs we had found in the work we did in the first session.

This is Kim's photo of me making my blocks.

These are my blocks looking 'yummy' after printing with them!   I made negative and postives and mirror images of two of my designs.

Another photo by Kim of me printing with my block.

These are photos of mmy work laid out for the show and tell at the end of the two days.

We cleaned our block on wet wipes and here are some of the results.  I like some of these better than the papers and fabrics I printed.

Thanks for stopping by
Bernice