This winter I'm determined to enter the art exhibit at the annual San Francisco Bay Flyway Festival, held on beautiful, wild Mare Island in Vallejo. I've been threatening to enter this show for a decade, and always flake out before I get started, but, this year I think I have plenty of time to get my act together. To that end, I went for a walk on the Benicia waterfront this weekend and took a few pictures for inspiration. I think this one will be my subject of choice - it'll give me plenty of opportunity to work with my newly acquired machine quilting chops, and make use of all of the fusing techniques I'm going to learn from Sue Dennis at PIQF next week...
While I love these beautiful rocks, I think there's too much water here - maybe for another time...
Definitely too much water in this one, but I love the expansiveness. It makes the channel look so vast. True, enormous oil tankers and auto carriers chug through here on a daily basis, but they always dwarf everything in sight, including the hills on either side, and the Carquinez bridges in the distance... not to mention looking somewhat obscene to me... invading this pristine beauty with their huge, ugly, smoke-belching bulk.
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Your pictures lend beautiful inspiration for your upcoming quilt and show. I'll be anxious to see it in it's various stages of completion.
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