Let me introduce you to the Green Man - subject of my latest Material
Mavens Challenge. The Challenge word was GREEN, I thought about this a
bit and while walking in the woods the other day, got my final idea.
Luckily
it was finished yesterday, right on time, but I still feel like I
skidded to a stop at home plate, breathing hard to get this done :)
This
is my second rendition (the first I just wasn't happy with the
outcome,) so this time I did some mono-printing of the leaves I had
found on the trail.
His face was fairly easy, but the
"feel" of him being a part of nature just wasn't there. He looked more
like a green sun to me, so I just had to think a bit harder.
What fun. My husband made wooden face parts of several different faces and placed them on different trees in the wooded lot next to our home. Your quilt immediately reminded me of those. He has to periodically go out there and put back an ear or a mouth, etc. Great job!
ReplyDeleteWhat a glorious expression on his face!!!!
ReplyDeleteHe is just wonderful. Loved that you used mono prints to get the shape of his face. How clever.
Such interesting work this month!!!! Just love this group.
Very clever and different! Your green man's expression is priceless!! Interesting technique to create a face that I must try to incorporate somehow in future work.
ReplyDeleteA brilliant solution...picking up the leaves to print on the fabric....and then as in a magical realism novel letting it develop into a living being. True growth...a fine solution.
ReplyDeleteI am so "taken" by your Green solution...just love your little man with his priceless expression! As I have been "bitten" by the monoprinting "bug" recently, love your use of the technique in executing your quilt.
ReplyDeleteSo many have commented before me, it's hard to find something new to say. The cleverness, difference, brilliance (borrowing words from others!) shines forth in this quilt and so I say, ditto, ditto, ditto! I couldn't help but think of an addiction my husband and I share--the television series called "Game of Thrones." This is a complex work, and part of it involves the tension between the adherents of the "old gods" and the new. The old gods are depicted in the series as faces carved into centuries old trees. I thought of that as soon as I saw your quilt!
ReplyDeleteFun quilt! I can just see this as a leprechauns face peeking out from his hiding place in the woods and having a private laugh at us as we walk right past him.
ReplyDeleteWow - the Green Man is one of my husbands favorite stories but I had forgotten all about him. The leaf prints are so perfect for this subject.
ReplyDeleteI contemplated doing a green man but I'm not good with faces and definitely would not have thought to mono-print leaf impressions which is an absolutely perfect solution! Often times the green man looks mean and spooky ~ his smile in this quilt is fun, mischievous and happy. As a quilter and gardener - I doubly love this!
ReplyDeleteThe face shows so much laughter. I makes me happy.
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