Thursday 14 February 2013

Green Door Experiments


 The Sue Ridgewell Challenge at the QGBI AGM at Nottingham this year is a 60cm square quilt on the theme 'My World is Green'. Having  gone through several  green phases with a substantial stash remaining and with my work as a botanist I was originally thinking of doing something based on my lab work. But with deadlines looming I remembered the pieces I produced on the paper lamination course a few years ago using pictures of crumbly doors.


 
I did several experiments in photoshop, playing with opacity  to see how they would look layered over a pictures of distressed doors (Iran, Greece and Yorkshire!) which I would then print in poster format over 9 sheets.
 


 
I do however have various door pictures that I had already printed on fabric so played around with these. A bit more random piecing and perhaps cutting them up is required but interesting possibilities.
I have 2 laminated pieces to choose from : the one below is more interesting but less green - it would require stronger green fabrics behind it. Looks like I might to make both and then decide!
 
 

2 comments:

Sandy said...

Both of these look wonderful! and could fit Halfway between, as doorways are just that.
Sandy

Nina Marie said...

ohhhh how clever of you! love the transparency quality of these - they make me wonder where the doors are going. This reminds me of Emily Richardson's work. Off The Wall is open in case you like to link