One of my online friends, Chela, reminded me that nature is a great inspiration for quilts (as well as other art). So here are some of my favorite nature pix.
I love plants and flowers of (almost) all kinds, so they are a frequent subject:
Can you see the bee?
It’s a Jack-in-the-Pulpit right beside my back steps!
Kenilworth Ivy is a favorite, and I like the pattern against the rock wall
The forest floor on one of our hikes
Any nature picture is improved by adding a grandchild!
Like most folks, I take pictures when we travel, some for the colors, some for the general scenery.
The colors are monochromatic, indicating how this little guy survives in the Canadian Rockies (when he isn’t begging from tourists)
One of these days I’ll use this picture, made on the Blue Ridge Parkway, as inspiration for a landscape quilt
The colors in New Mexico are always fascinating, and the sky so big
The one thing I don’t do, and don’t intend to do, is print my photos on fabric and put them in quilts that way. I use them for shapes, colors, arrangement of forms…but for the purpose of interpretation, not direct copies.
How do you use your photos in your quilts?
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