Friday, February 14, 2014

Salt mines

This time not a circle quilt - although I might use this idea for a future one - but a quilt for the Voyage group. For this group the theme this year is Earth and I am focussing on aerial views. This photo by George Steinmetz of the salt mines in Niger was my inspiration source:



Some time ago I had bought a piece of black textured felt. At that time no idea how I was going to use it, but it was the starting point for this quilt. I applied gold/bronze textile paint to it. First I tried paintstiks on a small sample, but the rubbing reduced the texture. To create more depth I glued 2 pieces of felt together. When I started cutting the holes the second layer moved a bit. At first annoying till I realised that this would give some shadow emphasizing the depth of the mines.

 

I could not find a piece of fabric with the coloring I wanted, so I painted the batting using orange and red paint. A minimal of quilting completes this quilt.
Here you see a detail picture:


 As it is Friday I am linking this post to Nina-Marie's Off the Wall Friday.

9 comments:

Ineke said...

De diepte en de schaduw komen heel goed uit.

The Inside Stori said...

Great inspiration, great piece!!!

quilthexle said...

Amazing piece - love how you interpreted the pic !

Norma Schlager said...

Very cool interpretation.

Margaret said...

I really like that, Wil. The shadows are great -- serendipity! :-) Made me want to look more closely.

Nancy said...

Thanks for explaining how you got the depth in the surface treatment. Great idea.

Linda A. Miller said...

Love it! Thanks for sharing your techniques...

Sylvia said...

I love this piece! It really looks like stones.

LA Paylor said...

love the picture so much. your interpretation is great, the color added is stimulating, keeping the shapes and adding the stitching. Good stuff
LeeAnna
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