It is NOT Halloween yet! EEEEEK

Image | August 14, 2013August 14, 2013 | JP Dawes Artist

This industrious spider created this overnight on my front screen door. OOOOO…iiiiccccckkkkk…..

Studio Redo Progress

August 10, 2013 | JP Dawes Artist

All packed up and waiting. Holes patched and painted.

The cabinets came today and I love them! Now we wait for our handyman Andy, to come next Saturday to install them. Yep, you really did read that right. Our handyman is really named Handy Andy! The art quilts on the wall are waiting for backings. I stuck them up to get them out of harms way.

Studio Redo & Studio Envy (janicepainedawes.com)

Who Knew!!

August 5, 2013 | JP Dawes Artist

A few months ago I downloaded a fun little drawing program on my Kindle Fire. I figured if I was bored and didn’t want to read sometime I could doodle. Well. I tried it and wow was it fun. I can see myself using this more. I don’t like to keep sketch books…its an aversion I developed while in school. Each class required a daily drawing in a sketch book. Since I took multiple art classes at once, I had a LOT of sketching. As a matter of fact, it was so contrived just to get the work done, that none of it survives because it wasn’t me. The only one I still have has skulls, bones and shells in it.

But I am off the topic, here is my first sketch on my Sketch Guru app on my Fire:

Ugly quilt saved or what to do when it doesn’t work

July 30, 2013 | JP Dawes Artist

I wrote the original posts about this quilt here

and again here when it was finished. It finally has a sleeve and a label and is being shipped off to the ” Stretching Art and Tradition” group exhibit that will be shown at the Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza in Philadelphia, PA in September. I’ve never shown a full picture of it so thought I would show it here.

There were a few issues doing this. First of all the quilt was washed so the batting shrank and it had that soft lived in look. I decided to paint before blocking reasoning that it would get wet and crinkle up all over again. Of course then the paint wouldn’t go on evenly. I could see this being a problem with some things but since this was an out and out experiment I just went for it. I was happy with how it turned out and that the quilting lines and crinkles added a nice design element.

Its still a little wonky and is drying after being blocked so the final photo will get done later today before shipping it off.

This is a Quilt! SAQA Trunk Show

July 29, 2013 | JP Dawes Artist

I’ve sent this little 7 x 10 inch quilty art piece to be part of the 2014 Anniversary Trunk Show for SAQA

From SAQA’s website:

“The 2014 Anniversary Trunk Show will premier at the 2014 SAQA conference in Washington, DC, and then travel all across the United States and around the world. A group of quilts from this exhibition will be chosen by jurors Linda Colsh and Margaret “Peg” Keeney to become a permanent part of the collection of the National Quilt Museum in Paducah, Kentucky.”