Creating a Modern Illlumination

I was challenged to create a piece to hang in the sanctuary illuminating James 5:15.

I made a few practice samples to see if my idea would work. Excited about the solution, I began with a fullsize sketch, then drew it onto fabric and began slow free motion stitching over my drawing.

Three layers, fabric and batting, gave a wonderful dimensional look.

Then I started the painting, slowly and carefully.

When completed, I backed it in silk. I am thrilled the combination of stitching and painting worked out as I had hoped!

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Poetic Self-Portraits

Stitch work, collage, paint are all game to help create "poetic portraits of oneself done by oneself". "Secret Self" , 15" x 15", fiber, hand stitched "Yellow Chair", 36" x 24", acrylic, stretched canvas "Red Hat" , 20" x 20", fiber, hand stitched "Yellow Hat" , 20" x 20", fiber, hand stitched "Art is Confession" , fiber, hand and machine stitched, painted "Talking Threads", 72" x 32", fabric, weaving, machine and hand stitching

CREATING CHRISTMAS CARDS

It's the middle of May and I'm making Christmas cards. Created the back ground using bubble wrap to print several layers on heavy paper. After newly created paper dried, I cut it to size. Cut a stencil out of contact paper and used an embroidery hoop and fabric to use for a silkscreen effect. DIDN'T WORK. After a few impressions ink ran under the contact paper. Decided to try again. This time, I carved a Lino cut using my design. I have one more sheet of prepared background paper to cut for next printing try. Finally, got the consistency of the ink and pressure just right. Next step will be continued!!

Stations of the Cross

I begin my mornings outside, first just looking and observing what is going on around me, which birds could I hear, what new buds were breaking through,which way was the breeze flowing from. Then sitting in a special place in my garden, I say a prayer of thankfulness. With that, I go to my studio and begin the process.. painting the Stations of the Cross. This past February 12th, a friend told me about a church in Webster, Texas (where a lot of the astronauts attend) announced a “call to artist”. On Good Friday they will have a virtual exhibit featuring artists work that represents The Stations of the Cross. To provide a version of this devotion more closely aligned with the biblical accounts, Pope John Paul II introduced a new form of devotion, called the Scriptural Way of the Cross, on Good Friday 1991 that is more closely aligned with the biblical accounts. This is the version I chose to paint. One painting wasn’t enough for me. I was driven to complete all fourteen and hopefully in...

JEANELLE McCALL

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