I have committed on posting photos of my daily creativity for 100 days. Here are some samples.
Author: Sue Lewis textiles
This award winning artist’s work is largely inspired by surface designed fabric and the beauty of nature. She incorporates a wide variety of textiles, found objects, wire, paper, feathers, mica as well as metals, foil and paper. The artist’s intention is to evoke a mood or elicit a memory to connect with the viewer. The artwork pushes the image to the abstract by transparent layering and intuitive composition. Celebrating imperfection, Sue uses both machine and hand stitching on hand dyed, painted or eco-dyed fabric to honor the Wabi Sabi aesthetic.
Submissions for Portfolio 2020
Here are photos are my best work of 2019: The In Between, Profusion and Lichen on Black. They are all done with machine quilting and added hand stitching. I have painted the fabric and eco-dyed or ice-dyed fabric on these 3. I am always inspired by nature’s bounty!
Felted lichen wall handing
Need to add more hand stitches and textures to this one in my lichen series. Found a nifty trick to get the yellow rings from yarn. Just pulled one strand of yarn out of three and the yarn created these cute squiggles!
Textile Inspirations
More photos from beautiful Canada!
Rocky Mountaineer Trip to Canada
So many beautiful scenes to capture. I plan to use these photos to inspire my textile work with a little help from Photoshop! So much work to be done.
Work in Progress – Dancing
I have finished creating a PhotoShop Elements image in preparation for a quilt I want to make. It was originally inspired by “Drops of Jupiter” by Train. I had in mind a dancer “dance along the light of day”. After playing with it in PSE, this is what I ended up with.
It was cropped ruthlessly and then I kept playing with the clone stamp and the self-healing brush to get all the hair going. Not too sure about that skin tone…. I want to make a quilt like this and maybe add a dancer in somehow.
Photoshop and Art Quilts
Finally took my last online lesson from the Pixeladies and it was sooo much fun! I still don’t understand a lot, but I can do some more advanced things. Here are some results of all my effort.
Don’t ask me any details as to how I did these, but I have a printout of all the lessons!
Photoshop fun with nature
I have almost completed my PSE class with Pixeladies. Such fun!
Photos to Textiles
I plan to use these photos to create some art quilts. Went to the Lavender Festival today and saw nature’s beauty everywhere.
Orange butterfly with coleous.
Orange and pink. Yum!
Lavender fields.
Pebbles and flowers.
Check out #naturesartincloth to see fiber art.
Textiles in Bloom
I have been doing some leaf dyeing and here are some pix to show you some lovelies!
Using maple leaves.
Printing rose leaves on silk
The one on the left is showing prints from Japanese maple leaves and the one on the right is from rose petals. Who knew this could be done so easily? Dip them in mordant, lay out on PFD silk. Wrap them on a wood dowel and submerge in boiling water for 2 hours. Unroll and voila!
Sue Lewis Art 