still life – Guila's Art & Other Assorted Joys

Cloth Journey

September 4, 2017 Guila Greer

Artists from the Surface Art Association are featured in the Art Exhibit currently at the Hillcrest Center for the Arts through September 25, 2017.

The Center is at 403 West Hillcrest Drive, Thousand Oaks, California. Cloth Journey can be found in the Galleria.

Call 805-381-2747 for additional information including hours. ConejoArts.org

I am so excited to have 12 pieces hanging in this show – all available for purchase.

Hospitalitea_Serenitea — Hospitali-TEA (above) Sereni-TEA (below)

First Sip Of The Day — First Sip of the Day

Leaves I and II — Leaf Study I (above) and Leaf Study II (below)

Art Quilt, Art Quilts, Fiber Art, Journal Size

Eat Your Veggies

October 14, 2011October 14, 2011 Guila Greer

Most of the art quilts that I’ve been making have been fairly free form. So I wanted to try my hand at a Still Life. I wanted it to be vibrant with color and simple in design. The fabrics that I chose would be very important.

First, not knowing which veggies would make the final cut, I went to the refrigerator to see what was available. I arranged various combinations on a cutting board and ended up with something that looked pleasing. I photographed them as I went along to get various perspectives. When I was satisfied I made a print in the size that I wanted to sew and prepared templates. I adhered a clear piece of laminating film to the printed design and cut the shapes that I wanted to use.

For the first time I went to my little stash of hand dyes and selected the veggie fabrics. Believe me when I say this was a really big deal. This is my holy grail of fabric.

I found pieces amongst my commercial stash that would work for the background and the cutting board.

Once I had the composition in place I decided that some highlights were needed on the veggies. I added these with Tsukineko Inks, chosen because of the ability to readily control the amount and depth of the color to be added.

I machine quilted to add texture and interest.

As I said earlier it’s quite different from what I usually do – do you like it?

Art Quilt, Quilts

Art Trumps Work

April 3, 2009April 2, 2012 Guila Greer

This Morning, Art Trumps Work!

It’s been way too long since I posted anything here. For that matter it’s been way too long since I completed a project! I’ve been very busy with “real life” work since the first of the year which I suppose is a good thing, lol.

A couple of months ago our little quilt art group decided to try our hand at a still life. Here’s what I came up with. I started with an arrangement of veggies from the refrigerator and took several pictures. This really helped me decide on which composition I liked the best.

I then printed the photo, enlarged it to the size I wanted and made some templates.have been in the look, don’t touch category for a long time. I selected a simple background, something with a grainy look for the cutting board and added some fusible web to the fabrics.

Then came the fun part of selecting my fabrics. For the very first time I decided to use some of my hand dyed fabric for the veggies. Believe me this was a huge step – those hand dyes

Then it was a matter of cutting, previewing, positioning and finally bonding. A simple quilting treatment added some definition and interest.

Here’s the (almost) finished journal quilt. (the edges need to be bound or ?)

Remember to “Eat Your Veggies”