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Friday, June 4th, 2010
What is Original Art (really)?
Salvador Dali used contemporary images of his time that were widely seen in his environment and incorporated them almost verbatim into his work (e.g.
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Friday, November 20th, 2009
Thread Painting Quilts
I’ve been doing a lot of thread painting and free motion quilting lately.
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Friday, September 25th, 2009
Art Quilts & Digital Photos
Recently I have started working with large scale digital photos to create more photo-realistic art quilts.
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Monday, February 2nd, 2009
What Defines an Artist?
Last night at my art group after showing my piece to the group someone mentioned that my fiber art piece looked like another famous art quilter’s work. I had no idea how this other art quilter was so it took me by surprise because I felt my piece was very unique.
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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Serger for Quilting
Most quilters don’t think of using their sergers for constructing their quilt tops, but if you’re piecing together long rows of blocks, the serger can be your friend.