"Shadow Dancer" 
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By Barb Forrister
- Size: 41" W x 36" L
- Entry #400-001, Art Quilt, Large and Small Category
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Awards
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- Overall Award for Design, Small
- Honorable Mention in Art Quilt, Large and Small Category
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Comments
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Shadow Dancer is Part IV of Naturescape Gray Scale Series and was created in larger format, increasing scale, delving into texture, and creating a more 3 -dimensional effect. I construct a lot of my own surfaces by building layer upon layer of fibers. The trees in the background are made from dyed batting and are machine appliqued. Their canopies are thread painted. The larger two trees in the foreground are composed of upholstery fabrics and have been machine needle-felted with bits of wool roving to add texture. The tree to the left in the foreground is created by adding layers of dyed fabrics and fibers including cotton and cheesecloth to assemble a new cloth reminiscent of tree bark. It is also built up with several layers of batting to provide dimension. Machine wrapped cording was used to represent ridges in the tree bark. The wolf is composed of several layers of various fibers including cotton, velvet, silk and upholstery fibers. His eyes are painted with shiny 3-dimensional acrylic paint. The bush on the right was created in black and white with machine wrapped cording as stems and the leaves were tacked down in a 3D manner.
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Techniques
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Machine Appliqué, Machine Quilting, Embellishment (3 Dimensional wall relief with soft sculpted elements), Dyed, Painted, Inked, Needle Felted, Texturized, Machine Wrapped Cording
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Design Source
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Original Design
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