Will the Circle Be Unbroken? Good name for this piece?

Last night I added tons of free motion stitching to this piece (if you click on the photo is will bring up a much larger image). The thread spools in the upper left corner is this great thread I found in a fishing store. It has a subtle metallic sheen to it and is about the weight of buttonhole thread. It's used for making lures. I thought it will work perfectly for some added hand stitching on this piece and to attach the Lutrador image. I also might add some beading, but we shall see!

Evolving

Lutrador is my new best friend!

Bliss

My great artist friend Fran http://francesca-burras.blogspot.com/ inspired me to try working with Lutrador after seeing what she did with it yesterday. Now...Fran is an amazingly versatile artist who works in many different mediums and is so good at all of them we ask her how she can stand herself and her many talents.

Anyway, the top photo is Lutrador that was painted and then had a photo transfer applied. The final step was a burning with the soldering iron. I think I'm going to add some copper foiling and stitch it onto some of my home dyed fabric OR attach it to the bottom piece. This piece is sheer fabric that had gel medium applied to it. After the gel dried I painted it with fabric dyes and acrylics then sprayed it with plenty of alcohol to get those cool textured effects alcohol renders. The image was then transfered onto the whole shabang.

Life is very good this early Sunday morning!

Luscious

Sometimes a whim turns out to hold a very, very promising future. The other day while shopping on an online art store I bought a yard of Lutrador on a lark. Never saw it before, never heard of it before but the description of what it is (rice paper like fabric) intriqued me. When it came in the mail I told one look at it and KNEW it was the medium I've been needing to paint to incorporate into my art quilts. I painted these small pieces in a very short time and am thrilled with the potential. Oh, I am a happy woman!