What a truly unique prompt!
Think about Mary Poppins, umbrellas, fun, happy. I looked up the meaning and
found that it originated many years before that movie. The feeling I got was
that it was over the top and positive.
I have been studying with
Jane Dunnewold since March when I went to her studio in San Antonio for a week.
It has really changed the way I look at designs on fabric whether it is color,
texture, or meaning.
This is the first time I have
studied color theory. Most of the time I had just picked out what looked good
to me with very good results. Now I am learning why those colors work well
together. I have painted many color wheels. I am trying to complete a research
project. I have learned more about dyeing particular colors.
All of this is to say that
the colors dance around in my head all the time in a very positive way that is
rather “over the top.”
My quilt started with a
fabric dyed with Blue 400 in a failed experiment. I screen printed a color
wheel on it; then I began to paint it with textile paints from Pro Chemical. I
had to use opaque white paint first to block the blue background. I used a
stencil brush to add the spots of paint. I wrote the word around the color
wheel twice spiraling out. It is not very easy to see the letters. Next I
quilted it using a spiral pattern outside the color wheel.
It is really very simple but
my way to interpret the longest word ever.
