Monday, April 19, 2010

Lionarted: a Journal quilt


Time for another journal quilt, a two hour sketch. At the same time, I have been busy coming up with thoughtful questions for our book group's discussion of Mary Karr's Lit: A Memoir tomorrow. A statement toward the end of the book struck me strongly. After Mary worked hard cleaning out the house of her mother, a painter, for a necessary move, the mother complained terribly. Mary, provoked, responded the mother never had the courage to paint all those canvases that she threw away.

That inspired me. I, also, have lots of canvases, unpainted. I must speak firmly to myself about gathering the courage to fill these. Here, the painter is depicted as an almost brave lion atop painterly book marbleizing to tie the the book club and painting together as the significant or provocative events of the week.

5 comments:

  1. OOH! I like this metaphor. The painting is good =- thoughtful lion, anticipating accomplishment. Keep going, Lion!

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  2. Did the lion come from "the cowardly lion" in the "Wizard of Oz"? The marblized background, the glasses, & the paintbrush = perfect!

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  3. Love this! I wonder like Rosemary above if the lion is the Cowardly Lion from the Wizard of Oz fabric, fussy-cut and appliqued on top of the background. And is the marbleized background paper or fabric? If paper, this is like something right out of my art quilting magazines, where artists often combine paper and fabric in art pieces. I enlarged the picture to scrutinize it more, and it looks to me as if the paintbrush and the glasses are cut out of felt and then appliqued on. As Sherron says above, a brilliant metaphor that ties together what's going on in your life right now! You probably don't like your pieces picked apart as I have here, but as a fellow journal quilter, I love to know about your techniques and media!

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  4. It looks more like the Narnia Lion. More in charge. I'm inspired now to write things I keep telling myself I'm going to write. But don't.

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  5. I found the lion fabric which was part of a panel at Ben Franklin, but had to buy the entire piece. The painterly marbleized fabric is from the same place. Picking apart is fine!

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