Summer Project - New Exhibit at Artists' Collaborative Gallery

My summer turned out to be very production...nine new pieces of work all around wild animals and there will be more.  The Zebra: Coat of Many Colors is turned out to be the primary piece with several others not far behind. 

I did some solo two color images, sort of like a silhouette effect and they are very effect when viewed...loads of stitching over the entire surface, just like all the others. 

There are three pieces with this same silk dyed background..one with the the giraffe, then another with zebra and yet another with elephants...titled:  Migration...............again I started with a silhouette effect and then changed it to where I used fibers that reflected their natural skin surface...odd looking foilage against the stark background/heat of the animals habitat.  They all turned out stunning.

This is a detail of the elephants....there are about six more in the length of the piece.
36" long by 16"high...they will be hung as a group.

And they I swung the other way and did a collage of rhino shapes against the black/white and red/white background..heavily stitched as usual and looks very crisp pulled back over the stretcher bars.  32" w x 22"h...larger piece, but looks great.

All in all there are nine pieces that I will hang at the Artists' Collaborative Gallery on Oct 5 with a reception on Saturday, Oct 10  2-5PM along with Verena Borton, weaver.  Should be a good time and I'm hoping to increase my sales...I intend to leave these hang at least through December if not longer.

I have been at the gallery since 2010 and most of what I have shown are the pieces using old photos.  Even thought there are always new customers coming into the gallery who have never seen my work, I felt personally that I needed to change my wall coverage.  Everyone wanted me to go floral, but I just don't get the spark doing floral...something I'll have to work into in the future possibly.  I want to do the work I want to do, not what others think I should do. 

Now on to creating my daughters wedding dress, flower girl dress and a new project if accepted, 30x30 through the Blue Line Gallery...hope that happens as I really want to get my work out into the public more, different work that what would sell at the gallery in Old Sac.       9/27/215  LS