While working in my current series that uses "structure" as my theme I made a piece titled "
Left Behind" that was inspired by the photos I had taken at the Burrard Shipyards in North Vancouver. Here's the picture:
I cropped the photo and made it into grey scale:
For some reason I thought I should incorporate the modern building in the background and make that part of the design. I think it was a mistake, while we can identify it as a component in the photograph, in the quilt it didn't make any sense....
In fact it was turned down from two juried shows.....it was
Left Behind.
So yesterday I masked off the "good" areas and painted over the background with a sponge roller. One of the things I like about the effect is the texture created by the quilting, lots of areas of lines and shapes in there. At first I used pure white paint, which seemed a little stark, so I then reapplied a light grey over top to tone it down.
A much better result, I'm happier with the quilt now and I will try entering it again. Maybe it won't get
Left Behind!
