Words for Grey is complete!
And just in time for those blustery Fall days, complete with wind and rain, to make their annual appearance.
This piece of art was the product of too many days spent looking out the window at dark, grey skies and exhaust colored snow last winter. I found myself contemplating words — synonyms — for “grey” in an attempt to take my mind off the fact that Spring was taking its sweet time in arriving. It was mid-April and still snowing. The native Mid-westerners were in agreement that the 2013 – 2014 winter was one of the longest, snowiest, and most abysmal in recent history.
All those synonyms turned into a poem (link below), then the poem turned into a sketch for a quilt. The quilt includes the spots of color that were missing from the dark days of winter.
I am pleased the finished piece so closely resembles the original sketch.
What do you do when Winter drags on?
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Words for Grey (link to poem)




*Hang = tape to wall with painter’s tape, scramble to take picture for record and blog post before art falls to floor. I really need a better system when my art is finished and ready for its close up.
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Next up: A Mariner’s Compass quilt from a pattern for the technique lesson. Come back in two weeks and see how it’s going.