Saturday, January 3, 2009

Framed Postcards
















I decided to cover a small gallery wrapped canvas with fabric and place a postcard in the
center. My friends seem to like receiving my postcard efforts so thought I would try to dress
them up a little for a Christmas gift. These are the results

This piece started out as a practice piece using water
soluble crayons and using flowers as my inspiration. I wasnt too impressed with my work but
when my daughter Shannon saw it she thought I should do
something with it so I did some threadpainting, and quilting
and used a pillowcase method to finish the edges but
then what to do?? I decided to paint a wrapped canvas stretcher
and mounted the piece on it with a lot of little thread ties
through the back. It's certainly a little different from anything I have tried before.