Dee's "Carried Away"

I love words – not only  for the meaning and use, but for texture,  syllables and tones. A word can set moods such as playful, morose, exciting, or  secretive and our challenge word, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (s32s), was a good example of that;  it is fun and frivolous, uncommon as far as use, but yet  known by all.  

To visually describe s32s,  I chose the parrot head umbrella that Mary Poppins used to transport herself.  I decided my umbrella would be a transport of a different sort - a boat floating in a pink ocean of pink flowers. “Carried Away” is the title of my piece.   I guess we are punning on this one as we drift away into fantasy.

  

The background is a hand-dyed cotton that was quilted in lines to create the ocean waves.  The fabric was too dark and the quilting did not show well, so I dry-brushed  two layers of light pink acrylic paint over the quilted background.  I drew the parrot umbrella and fused/stitched it on.  The paper flowers were purchased  and I reworked them by taking out the plastic centers and thinning out the petals. I stitched square beads and painted batting  into the centers to tone down the commercial look of the flowers.  The edging is something I call carnival prairie points because it looks like little flags hanging from the edges of  circus tents.  The edging is made from fused squares from the same hand-dyed fabric.