I noticed the shapes of this barn down the road from us, while out walking one day. I think it makes a great composition on its own. But I did decide to add the purple sky as an added touch.
Martha Ressler
Red Roof, Purple Sky
Art Quilt
16 x 20″
Day 14 Red Shed, Orange Door, Yellow Sky
Posted: February 14, 2018 in 30 for 30, Art Quilts, landscape, Paintings in cloth, Rural, UncategorizedTags: #30paintingsin30days, Art Quilts, Colorful, fabrics, Martha Ressler, Rural landscape
This is a re-do of a quilt I made a few years ago. The scene of this group of buildings, near Yellow House, PA, tickled me because of the colors. I added the yellow sky in the new piece, as a nod to the proximity of a town with a name like Yellow House, and because it goes with the red and orange. I’m starting to try to see how far I can go in re-organizing a scene using fabric. And still make a representational image, that is.
Martha Ressler
Red Shed, Orange Door, Yellow Sky
Art Quilt
16 x 20″
Day 13 What Will the Newspapers Say/On New Year’s Day
Posted: February 13, 2018 in 30 for 30, Art, Art Quilts, Cloth in Common, UncategorizedTags: #30paintingsin30days, Art Quilts, Martha Ressler, New Year's Day, Shadow selfie, U2
This piece was the result of a challenge laid down in Cloth in Common, my international art quilt group. We were to use song lyrics as an inspiration for an art quilt. I love song lyrics, and thought it would be easy. It wasn’t. My mind was blank for the month of December. Then on January 1, as I retrieved my neighbor’s newspaper, I saw my shadow selfie, and the U2 song, New Year’s Day, sprung into my mind. It was the coldest January 1 for 100 years. The news had been mostly bad, to my mind. All I had to add was the “blood-red sky,” and I had my composition. Even the shadows could look a bit sinister — or not.
Martha Ressler
What Will the Newspapers Say/ On New Year’s Day
Art Quilt
20 x 16″
Day 12 Last of Linus and Lucy
Posted: February 12, 2018 in 30 for 30, Art, Art Quilts, Jazz, UncategorizedTags: #30paintingsin30days, Art Quilts, Jazz, Linus and Lucy, Martha Ressler
This is day 12 of the 30 Paintings in 30 Days challenge issued by artist Leslie Saeta. Or I guess it should read 28 paintings in 28 days, since it’s February. But that doesn’t have quite the same ring.
I’ve been working on a series of jazz themed works based on listening to the happy, rollicking rendition of Linus and Lucy, the theme song of Peanuts, the movie, by the Vince Guaraldi Trio.
Martha Ressler
Linus and Lucy Orange (small, 2)
Art Quilt
7 x 9″ framed
Day 11 Linus and Lucy again
Posted: February 11, 2018 in 30 for 30, Art Quilts, Jazz, UncategorizedTags: Art Quilts, Jazz, Linus and Lucy, Martha Ressler, orange
Day 11 in the 30 Paintings in 30 Days challenge issued by Leslie Saeta. This ia another small quilt in the Linus and Lucy jazz series.
Martha Ressler
Linus and Lucy Orange (small, 1)
Art Quilt
8 x 6″ framed (counting the frame, 9 x 7″)
Day 10 Orange Linus and Lucy
Posted: February 10, 2018 in 30 for 30, Art Quilts, Jazz, UncategorizedTags: Art Quilts, Jazz, Linus and Lucy, Martha Ressler
More in the series listening to the Vince Guaraldi Trio’s rendition Linus and Lucy.
Martha Ressler
Linus and Lucy Orange
Art Quilt
16 x 20″ framed
Day 9 Another Jazzy Piece
Posted: February 9, 2018 in 30 for 30, Art Quilts, Events, Jazz, UncategorizedTags: Art Quilts, Jazz, Linus and Lucy, Martha Ressler
Day 9 features a second small Blue Linus and Lucy piece. This will also be framed. Part of a Jazz themed series I am doing.
Martha Ressler
Blue Linus and Lucy, Small 1
Art Quilt
8 x 6″ framed
Day #8 — Small Quilt Linus and Lucy Blue
Posted: February 8, 2018 in 30 for 30, Art, Art Quilts, Business of Art, Events, Jazz, UncategorizedTags: #30paintingsin30days, Jazz, Linus and Lucy, Martha Ressler
Day 8 of #30paintingsin30days. Or Art Quilts, in my case.
This is a small version of Linus and Lucy Blue. These 6 x 8″ framed art quilts are popular items in the art fairs I do, as well as gift shops around town. I’m continuing with the series — listening to Linus and Lucy by the Vince Guaraldi Trio.
Martha Ressler
Small Linus and Lucy Blue, #2
Art Quilt
8 x 6″ Framed
Day 7, Franklin Street Games
Posted: February 7, 2018 in 30 for 30, Art Quilts, Events, Other Fiber Art, UncategorizedTags: Art Quilts, Martha Ressler, Michael L Miller, West Reading, WRMOTA
This tiny art quilt, just 2 x 8″ will actually be a mural.
Artist Michael L Miller of West Reading is organizing a project called West Reading Museum of Temporary Art and Personal Histories. He gathered the stories of 120 residents, from past to present, and matched the stories with 120 artists who will create the tiny works of art to be installed, each on a brick, around town.
The story I was assigned was a man remembering his boyhood on a street of row houses. As he passed by, friendly neighbors relaxed on their front porches. He played tag with his friends and remembered shooting marbles on the grass.
I tried to abstract the row houses, overlaid by the circles and colorful marbles inside and outside them.
Martha Ressler
Franklin Street Games
Art Quilt
2 x 8″
Day 6: Linus and Lucy Blue
Posted: February 6, 2018 in 30 for 30, Art, Art Quilts, Events, Jazz, Reading, UncategorizedTags: #30paintingsin30days, Art Quilts, Berks Jazz Fest, Jazz, Linus and Lucy, Martha Ressler
I will be submitting work to two art shows to be held in conjunction with the annual Berks Jazz Festival in April. This one is inspired by the happy theme from the Peanuts movie, Linus and Lucy. I was listening to the Vince Guaraldi Trio jazz version at the time.
Martha Ressler
Linus and Lucy Blue
Art Quilt
16 x 20″
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