Artistic Endeavors of a Restless Soul

Landscape 2

I made another attempt on a landscape using applique/collage. This is a fun medium to work with... but I am running out of colours !

The picture I used as a guide this time is a painting I came across in 'American Art Review' magazine.

I pasted the completed piece on a 8x10 canvas.

I am giving this away to a friend's daughter who is celebrating her birthday at the end of the month. I hope she will like it.

Thank you for stopping by,

Until next time,

xxx,

Gaia

Applique - tote bag

I made a tote with the same pattern few months ago; you can see it here

The material I used for applique are from my bag of remnants ( I think it is batik,) and rest is from a thrift store.

I will be mailing this to a dear friend of mine who is an artist. Hope she will like it.

Thank you for stopping by,

Until next time,
xxx
Gaia

Experimental Landscape

Feels like autumn

This is an experimental piece I did inspired by the this painting that I saw in the 'International Artist.com' magazine.

As I would do with the painting, I tried to build the landscape adding layers of fabric. I have not used any kind adhesive to hold the fabric. I cut the shapes and held them with pins first and then ran the running stitch. I tried my best to make the stitches even as possible.

First I added the background colours;

Then middle ground layers; such as the trees,leaves

Finally the foreground. I did use the running stitch as the main stitch and some back stitch as well, also tried my hand doing some french knots for extra texture.

I do like the warm colours and the rustic feel of it but is it an applique or a collage??

Thank you for stopping by,

Until next time,

x.x.x
Gaia

Applique - Mirror ! Mirror ! ....on the wall

The wall where I have kept my dresser has been bare for sometime and I had been wanting to create a perfect match for the dressing area. Since there's no mirror above the dresser, this is the mirror that I came up with.....

scraps that I used in this project

Applique is done on a piece of calico. I chose to incorporate few things that I would usually keep on my dressing table or beside the bathroom mirror .

feel of an antique mirror

bottles of lotion, nail polish, earrings and a hair brush

soap and toothbrush

jewelry box and the chain

..... a soft cotton batting and then some hand quilting

I manged to find matching blues from the pile of remnants for the edges.

Who's the prettiest of all ?

Thank you for stopping by,

Until next time,

xxx,
Gaia

Tote bags

I had some left over material from the one of the wall hangings I did, and I used it to make this small tote bag. I did the same kind of applique as before.

It was not easy to sew to the handles by machine as the material is very thick when folded into two, I had to hand stitched those. ..ouch! ouuch ! and the rest of the sides are done in machine.

For this bag too I used left over material. The little shell like circles are cut from an old tee shirt and sewed using the blanket stitch.

The purple one is a friend who is celebrating her birthday at the end of the month.

Thanks for stopping by,

Until next time,

x.x.x,

Gaia

The Weekend

Another still life painted using IPAD application 'procreate'.

half a pomegranate

Would you like a piece?

A mat for the meditation bench..

These colourful pieces of brocade were given to me by a Japanese friend of mine. I did not know what type of project I would use them for until recently; I thought of making mat for my meditation bench. Like most of my crafts this again all hand pieced and sewn. I had some polyester batting which I used for the middle. I would have liked it to have little more width, but I did not have enough material.

blue satin was a find from the thrift store

some black raw silk for the edges

Thanks for stopping by,

Until next time,

xxx,

Gaia

Applique on gunny sack

Tea, any one ??

It rained a lot this weekend and I stayed indoors and did a bit of sewing. Tea is a wonderful companion and I had many throughout the day. These are my tea inspired creations.