Fiber Collage, finished at last

[anne_d]

Another class project finished, finally.

The front:



The back:



Materials: The usual batiks, low-loft batting, embroidery flosses, seed beads of various sizes, vintage Czech glass sew-ons (the bracelet), charms, beads, milagros, a paintbrush and some hand-dyed rickrack and fibers.

Miscellaneous details:

The quote is Frida Kahlo's; "I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality."

The hand is an outline of my right hand, palm up. The words along the vine/line embroidery are "HEAD HEART LIFE LOVE FATE". It's not an accurate representation of palmistry, more of a concept thing. The bracelet charm is assembled from an image of Frida Kahlo left over from my Dia de Los Muertos bracelet kit and a square frame charm, both from Silvercrow Creations, and a good dollop of gel medium (I love that stuff).

The charm in the center of the sun is a gold winged heart.

The charms along the bottom are, from left to right, Anima Sola (it's down a bit on the page), a gold sun, a silver lightning bolt, a copper moonface, an eye milagro, a big copper heart milagro, a gold star, an earth globe bead, a copper petroglyph spiral, a silver crescent moon, and a winged pig.

The hanger is a cheap paintbrush with all the markings sanded off, to which I gave a coat of Lumiere Super Sparkle, then wrapped it with some hand-dyed rickrack and added some rainbow-colored fibers. The tabs are the same fabric as the back of the block, with featherstitching in seed beads.

For links to previous entries for this class, use the Susan Sorrell tag.

Comments

[usedtobeljs]

The charms are lovely -- and I think the hanger-idea is brilliant. Gorgeous, all in all!

[hugs]

[anne_d]

Thank you! Yes, I kept coming back to the paintbrush - I had to work one into the design somehow.

[makd.livejournal.com]

Oh, Anne! That's gorgeous!!! I love it!

Thanks for sharing this.

[anne_d]

Thank you!

[julia-here.livejournal.com]

Quite lovely; the quality of the workmanship is impecable, but you're a total and masterful genius when it comes to magpie-ing materials.

Julia, there's a skill not to be minimized: it takes eye, and memory, and persistance, and putting things where they can be found

[anne_d]

You flatter me far too much, and I love it. Thank you!

I spend a lot of time (one might say waste) putting things in tins with clear lids, or little zip bags, and putting those in drawers or boxes with labels, and still I end up buying supplies over again because I can't find them, or forget I had them at all.

Then there's the whole thing of being afraid to actually use something because I may never find another like it... That seems to happen to a lot of us - my cousin, for one, admits to the same problem.

[yorick28.livejournal.com]

Sorry I'm a bit tardy with this, but I just wanted to say those collages are absolutely gorgeous with some terrific interplay of colors—particularly in the first one. Really well done!

[anne_d]

Thank you!