SEASCAPE FANTASY

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• This piece is a quilted fabric painting, done in silk-screening, air-brush and painting techniques, based on original drawings in black and white.
• It is a further elaboration of the images created for the tiled work Seascape Mural.
• It consists of six painted panels, portraying fish, crabs and seahorses in scenic sea settings.
• An extensively sewn quilting component completes the work.
• Size: 30.0" x 24.0".
• Date: 2008.
• Sold.

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CREATIVE PROCESS

• Preliminary images are drawn and colored preparatory to silk-screening.

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• White fabric is placed on a cardboard surface. A fish template is air-brushed in yellow.
• The yellow fish is covered with another template and small areas are air-brushed serially in orange, green, black, blue, yellow and green fabric paint.
• Lastly, Meryl removes the blocking template of the fish to reveal the underlying untouched yellow color.
• She can now silk-screen detailed images of the fish onto the exposed yellow area.
• The process is repeated for six panels with fish images facing in one direction and six others facing the other way.
• Similar techniques are used to make sets of crab and seahorse panels. Two closely paired panels are chosen from each set of images for the final work.

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• Silk-screening and extensive hand painting to enhance the silk-screen designs are completed for all six panels.
• The panels are pieced together with bands of black cloth.
• A teal blue silk is chosen for the quilt backing and liner.
• These are sandwiched together. Once this step is finished, elaborate quilting completes the work.

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