Reef Alive

Description

This art comes alive through a series of steps, from painting the backgrounds on fabric with watercolor, acrylic or oil pastel.  Designing scenes by layering fibers using sewing techniques like, sewing machine free motion drawing, hand appliqué, quilting motifs, felting, and hand embellishing with silk ribbons, beads, specialty threads, and other fibers to give it a textured look.  Finally, I highlight aspects of the art with acrylic paint, watercolor pencils or fabric markers for shading to give it depth.

In this piece there are aspect of one or more of the above elements used to create it.