My Quilt for "IT'S TIME FOR COLOUR" - CQA/ACC Invitational Travelling Exhibition

In my print series "Printing the Alphabet - Extraordinary 
Prints from Ordinary Objects" I am exploring prints, 
textures and colour using everyday objects. 

For this quilt I chose to print with an onion.

"It's Time For Colour" will travel to approximately 20

different venues across Canada and be displayed at 

Quilt Canada 2015 in Lethbridge Alberta. The 40 quilts 

will be auctioned off, with the proceed going to 

The Children's Wish Foundation of Canada.

I printed with an onion - black pigment on white cotton.

Once the onion print was dry, I used
Colour Vie pigments to overpaint
with a rainbow of colours.
www.colourvie.com

I enlarged the onion image, made a silk screen, and
used it to screen print the large onion image on top
using metallic copper pigment.

Finished quilt 12" x 16"

Close up of machine quilting.

Extraordinary Prints from Ordinary Objects - O

O is for ONION

Onions are great little print blocks. Like a lot of different veggies 

and fruits - see my blog entry "A" for Apple!

1. Cut an onion in half (Let the cut onion dry on a paper towel 

for a couple of minutes before you print with it).

2. Mix your pigments (I use my own Colour Vie pigments).

www.colourvie.com

3. It is helpful to print on a slightly padded surface - a piece of 

polar fleece or even just a few layers of newspaper work well.

4. Make a stamp pad from a piece of foam ( or apply pigment

with a foam brush)

5. Print away and have fun!

I printed the onion with black pigment,
then overpainted with a rainbow of colours
www.colourvie.com

 

Student work 

Student work. Yes, you can cut the onion the other way too!

Student work Also in the onion family - Garlic. Makes
a great pattern, but be prepared to get a bit peckish.