Peacock Background Process

I'm showing photos from the creation of a peacock art quilt that I started in a workshop with Susan Carlson. This post shows the progression of making the background. 

Here I am cutting out the peacock collage piece from the muslin that it was built on:

Next I did a lot of experimenting with different fabrics to find the right design for the background:

 I liked the orange colors. They make the peacock colors pop.

I considered making the bottom darker, as if it was a ground surface. This idea was considered but I rejected it.





  I wondered if putting blues in would make it tie back in to the peacock. I considered this but rejected it.

















I did many other iterations and this last one is close to what I ended up doing. It took me a long time to figure out what I wanted to do on this. It really was a struggle for some reason! But it is done now, thankfully!

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My Peacock Project!

In the spring of 2017 I took a workshop with Susan Carlson to learn her fabric collage technique. It was at the Asilomar Conference Center. The workshop was a fun and worthwhile experience. I started a peacock art quilt in that workshop. I am almost done with it, so I thought I would use the next couple of posts to show the progression of the making of this art quilt. Here are some photos:

My inspiration was a peacock that I saw at a zoo in Hawaii. Here is my photo of that peacock:



My drawing from that photo:



The drawing on white muslin. The collage process has started.




In progress:











This was about as much as I did in the workshop. Once I got it home I finished the bird up and then it was time for the background. I'll show that in the next post.  Thanks for visiting my blog!