Posts made in March, 2006
Cell Baby
I guess you could call my dyeing experiments recess, so it’s time to get back to class. Rather than continue to fixate on the background buildings in my current quilt, I went back to making people which is much more entertaining. My friend Arleta suggested I put young kids into the quilt, so here’s what I did today. I also worked on a dentist’s office and a floral shop —...
Read MoreMore Dyeing
Oh my, this is addictive! I’ve been ripping up fabric from my collection and dyeing it in different colors, and even gone a little crazy and ordered more black and whites to dye. Here’s what I started with, and then used different pots of yellows, oranges, and reds to dip into to create different color blends. I’m trying to do it by eyeball, since I’m not a...
Read MoreDyed and Gone to Heaven
I haven’t dyed anything in a long time, but have been thinking about it. I use lots of commercially printed fabric and love tone-on-tone patterns, so have been wanting to try to make my own by over-dyeing pre-printed fabrics. But the warehouse has been too cold, AND Russ bought me a stainless steel sink at an auction for a sushi bar that went out of business last fall. So of course so...
Read MoreSewing with Company
It’s time to send my quilt off to Visions for final approval and photography for the book. But when I finally got around to packing it up, I suddenly realized that the one selected was the second cartoon quilt I made, and I wasn’t happy with the binding or the hanging sleeve. So I had to redo all that before shipping. This little Chinese boy is a ceramic planter that has followed me...
Read MoreThose Dang Dangos
Here’s a drawing I did today instead of getting my quilt ready for Visions as I should. I like getting accepted to shows, but hate having to actually ship the work. Back to the drawing though, it’s almost finished except I want to put Ree and Jun in a doorway looking into the room before I send it to them. If you can’t read the small writing, PaMdora is eating from a box of...
Read MoreMadama Butterfly Premiere
We met Jun Kaneko in January (read my post here) and so have only recently become aware what an inspiring artist this man is, and yet so quiet and good-humored. His wife Ree started The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art and now manages Jun’s career; she’s a fountain of enthusiasm. Kaneko came to the United States from Japan as a teenager, knowing no English, to study painting and...
Read MoreDismantled Car
Tomorrow morning we leave to see the premier of this famous opera with sets and costumes designed by this artist and other special exhibits of his work. I’m so excited about the trip, but had hoped to be further along on this piece before we left town. Maybe the break will do me good though — I think I need to get away from these orange buildings that are driving me nuts. When I...
Read MoreThe Fabric Shuffle
Aaaargh! I was thinking that I should have said during my interview that my favorite part of the process was cutting out characters and seeing them come alive. But aarrrgh! That’s also the most frustrating part — when it doesn’t go right. Today I played the fabric shuffle, swapping out orange and red fabrics to make background buildings and nothing seemed to work. The Robert...
Read MoreIllustration Friday: Insect
I still haven’t caught up on everything since the tv taping. But I couldn’t resist doing this drawing for Illustration Friday called “Those Pesky Men”. You can click on it for a bigger version. In case you’re wondering, it’s not inspired by any kind of emotional stress, and I’m not a man-hater. This just popped in my head once when I saw an old...
Read MoreA Day with Wisconsin PBS
It was a gray rainy Saturday when the PBS crew from Wisconsin came to interview me and videotape my studio for an art quilt documentary. However, in my windowless studio, it’s always colorful and bright! Since I forgot to take photos, I drew this illustration to show you what the day was like. Very exciting, but in spite of my pre-event jitters, it went pretty well. No trees or animals...
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I'm an artist who makes humorous quilts and drawings and shares a studio in an old peanut butter factory with my husband who is also an artist and sculptor. You can also see more of my art at PamRuBert.com
