Painted Pictorial Quilts

Introduction

Meet your instructor, Annette Kennedy, a Colorado artist who translates her photographs into colorful painted pictorial quilts.

Creating Visual Depth

Using paint and a full palette of colors, Annette explains how to enhance a quilt and create visual depth. You’ll learn how to train your eye to imagine ways to translate photos into works of quilted art.

Supplies & Materials

Annette shows you what brushes, paints, gels and other supplies will work best for your projects. You’ll learn where to buy and how to store your materials so you can use them as long as possible.

Practicing Brush Strokes

Practice a variety of different strokes with Annette’s help, including blocking, wisping, place-and-pull, lining and depression stroke techniques. You’ll be amazed by how many different visual effects you can achieve!

Assembling the Calla Lily

Starting with the sleek and sophisticated calla lily, you’ll learn how to trace and cut pattern pieces, mark features, and create the flower. Additionally, you’ll discover how to work with fusible web appliqué.

Painting Leaves & Stems

Put your new painting skills to work as you refine the lily’s leaves and stem. Starting with a painting guide, you’ll carefully mix your colors. Annette shows you step-by-step examples to add highlights and do a colorwash.

Painting the Lily

Use four vibrant colors to transform your lily from ordinary to stunning! Annette shows how to create shadows to add dimension, layer colors, and refine details.

Color

Dive into color theory and learn how to mute colors, choose pleasing color themes and mix paints to achieve the exact shades you want. Then practice painting techniques to learn the best ways to create visual depth and contours.

Depth & Dimension

Explore ways to achieve the proper proportion in your work as you learn the fundamentals of distance, scale, shading and exaggeration, and how each can make a significant difference in the quality of your art.

Assembling the Canyon

In the first of three lessons on the Painted Canyon design, you’ll learn how to use tracing, fusible web and transparent images to transfer designs to your fabric.

Painting the Canyon

Use your artist’s instincts as you paint contours and shadows, adding visual drama to the appliqué. Annette shows you how to lighten and darken paints, emphasize a focal point and much more in this thorough lesson.

Painting Mountains

Add contours to the mountains, using shading to separate them. Then focus on highlighting techniques that will add dimension and visual interest. Close-up footage of Annette’s work will help you see all the details you need.

Painting the Foreground

Use your new skills in scale and dimension as you paint the foreground. Experiment with opaques and shadows, paint the ground, road and desert plants, and find new ways to add pop to the foreground.

Quilting & Finishing

Finish your painted quilt with dynamic stitches and threads that highlight your fabric and color choices and add even more dimension to your painted creations. Annette shows you how to continue painting after quilting if you wish.

Bonus: Sun Print Collage

Join Annette again in this bonus lesson as you explore ways to create a vivid collage. You’ll learn how to use basic supplies such as sponges, odds-and-ends from the kitchen and garden, and light to create beautiful works of art!