November 11, 2014   Lest we forget.  Remembrance Day 2014

Here are some great photos from  my creative landscapes course held on a beautiful lake in Muskoka on a rainy fall day.  Six wannabe landscape quilters gathered to learn the fine art of quilt as you go landscapes.  It took a bit of convincing to get some of them to give up the normal precision required for quilting and switch their thoughts over to worrying about colour value, abstract design and letting go of the "photographic" image they had in mind.

Sherry begins adding details.  See the line of trees.

 What a great day!  Day one, after an entire day, everyone finished their backgrounds.  It took another afternoon to quilt and add the foreground details and binding. Everyone went home after day two with some hand sewing to do on the binding.  Looking at these photos will give you some great inspiration for backgrounds.

The backgrounds are complete.