Artist Statement in progress

Dalonna and Kris, two of the girls in my doll club, came up with an absolutely brilliant way for us to do our artist statements for our gallery show in June. I’ve actually started on mine - which is bad - because two of the girls are coming over on Sunday so we can work on them together. I just couldn’t wait, LOL. This will give you an idea of what we’re doing.

Dalonna's grandmother had made a few dozen dress appliqués for a quilt that never got made and Dalonna inherited them. At club this past Monday we each got to pick a dress. That was tough because there was a red checked dress I really liked! I couldn't decide between that one and this one. In the end I took this one, (duh, obviously) a cool retro polka dot fabric but then I did the fantasy fabric and free motion stitching thing all over it. It blended with the background so well I had to fuse it to a black piece of material so you could see it, LOL.

The base is foam board - I did a fairly complicated background following instructions in an article in the current issue of Cloth, Paper, Scissors. Great fun even if I did end up wearing as much paint as the board did! I always use iridescent paints so the pictures are nearly impossible to take. To finish the dress, we are all taking a photo of our faces and we will be 'wearing' the dress. It will have arms and legs of some sort - beads, charms, paper - who knows. I’ll wait until Sunday for that.

The actual artist statement will be typed and glued to the page. At least mine will, my writing stinks. We’re doing bullet statements. These will look so cool on the wall - everyone’s board will be different but all the dresses will be the same shape. Neat, huh! I'll post another photo when it's done on Sunday.