Tanya Brown won a second place in the Art-Painted Surface category with “Flooded.” She used watercolor and ink on cotton that was pretreated with soy milk. That’s a technique that I’ve been reading about recently that I really want to try. I even have my bag of soybeans sitting on my work table. The soy milk is supposed to make fugitive mediums permanent. Think of the possibilities of that!
More tomorrow!
(As mentioned previously, according to IQA’s quilt photography rules, “If you post your photos to your personal web site, you must include appropriate credit for each quilt artist, and note that the photos were taken at International Quilt Festival.”)
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4 responses to “IQF portrait quilts, part 2”
I’m trying to imagine what “fugitive mediums” must mean….
For textile artists, a fugitive medium is something that isn’t intended for fabric, so it is not necessarily permanent and washable. For instance, I can use regular colored pencils on fabric, but they will mostly wash away unless I can “fix” them in some way. Some people paint over them with clear gel medium, which “seals” them in and makes them somewhat more washable.
Much nicer than my explanation: “fugitive = desperately trying to escape me and my work.”
Thanks for posting the shot of Flooded, Maria. I’ve been enjoying your series on portraits.
I don’t think it was this artist, but Pokey Bolten had a woman on who used cheesecloth…looked with a really interesting technique and this is really a beautiful piece…