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Please Don't Eat the Dahlias
Printable version
- Copyright © 2022 Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry
- Size: 30" wide x 30" high
- Techniques:
- original design & photography, dye painting, digital painting, digital printing, machine quilting
- Materials: Fabric: 100% cotton / Batting: 50% cotton / 50% bamboo
- Price: $6400.00
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Email Phone: 360-385-2568 Snail Mail: Bryerpatch Studio 10 Baycliff Place. Port Townsend, WA 98368 |
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original photo 8-21-2022 |
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dye-painted fabric by Caryl |
In the Spring of 2022, I planted a group of hybrid dahlias in front of my studio window, so I could see them while sitting at my computer. One of the things we enjoy about living in a forest is watching the deer and other wildlife as they wander past our windows. The deer are also the bane of anyone trying to grow a garden. They are not supposed to like dahlias; however, they don’t seem to have received that memo. One day in August, when the dahlias were in their prime, a doe showed up and started taking a bite out of each blossom, while looking right at us as we watched her through the window. I grabbed my camera and managed to get a shot of her with her mouth stuffed with a primo bloom.
I opened my photo in Corel Photo-Paint, erased the background, and painted out several of the flowers and anything else I didn’t want to quilt around. I found one of my hand painted fabrics that picked up the colors in the photo and had the perfect textures to create an abstract background for the dahlias. I photographed the fabric and added it to my altered photograph. I designed binding strips to coordinate with the digitally collaged images and had everything digitally printed by Spoonflower. The actual dye-painted fabric was used on the back of the quilt. |
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- Photos, Pixels, & Pizzazz: Digital Quilts by Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry, Special exhibition, Road to California Quilters Conference, Ontario, CA, January 17-21, 2023
- Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, Hampton Roads Convention Center, Hampton, VA, February 23-26, 2023 (Second Place: Wall Quilts)
- What's for Lunch, Peninsula Fiber Artists Exhibition, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Port Angeles, WA, March 17 - May 15, 2023
- Houston Quilt Festival, Judged Show, George Brown Convention Center, Houston, TX, November 1-5, 2023
- Photos, Pixels, & Pizzazz: Recent Quilts by Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry, Iowa Quilt Museum, Winterset Iowa, December 12, 2023 - March 10, 2023
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11/09/2023
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