Friday's effort

Yesterday I worked on developing some painted fabrics to use in "Size Queen." They are intentionally simple because they will be used in the shadow side of the face.

These plain muslin fabrics were "painted" by mixing several acrylic paint colors together and diluting them with water. Some of the spots materialize by not completely mixing the paint. Some of spots were added and allowed to dissolve into the wet fabric.

This process reflects how the color fields in my quilt evolve. Using two similarly colored fabrics, sometimes commercially available, and sometimes personally painted, I cut them into strips about 1 1/2" wides and sew them together alternately. Then I cut the sewn together strips into 1 1/2" wide strips (ninety degrees to the original cut) and sew them together in a checker board pattern. The third image is the result.