Saturday, February 28, 2015

Green Pears

The theme I have chosen to work with for the year is “Fruits and Seeds”. It would have been so easy to simply incorporate a bit of green foliage for this challenge, but I wanted to do a bit more than that. I took photographs of pears and, after much experimentation, created this image using digital manipulation in PaintShop Photo Pro X3. I needed the image to be clean and simple so that it would work with the repetition. I then generated several colour gradients which all moved from green to another colour e.g. green – yellow, green – magenta, etc. I coloured each pear in from a different gradient. It was printed out using an inkjet printer on white cotton poplin coated with inkAID. The design enabled me to work within the limitations of an A4 printer – no awkward joins to deal with. The backing is felt and interfacing. The quilting is a straightforward free machine meander stitch using a variety of Isacord 40 threads. I chose to edge the piece with a machined blanket stitch.

6 comments:

  1. What a successful first challenge! The variations show just how different your pear can look, and the overall effect of the composition is harmonious and exciting at the same time.

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  2. I love your pears and the different ways they appear after having been worked on in Paint shop. The repetition in different strong color gradients on pale backgrounds is really very successful.

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  3. i knew this would look good on the blog, it's stunning in person!

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  4. Love the colour play and the use of meander to further enhance the colour areas

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  5. I like the repetition of the pears, changing colour, and your colour-palette is beautiful

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  6. Great first challenge piece, Nicole. I really like the repeat you have used and the leaves down the side really add to the piece.

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