Joan Miro

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Mir%C3%B3

"Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride. In numerous interviews dating from the 1930s onwards, Miró expressed contempt for conventional painting methods as a way of supporting bourgeois society, and famously declared an "assassination of painting" in favour of upsetting the visual elements of established painting"

I really couldn't get into this theme. I thought about Gaudi, Bullfighting, the olympics and out of desperation settled on Miro. I painted some dampened fabric, then used freezer paper stencils for the primary coloured shapes, drew some lines with a black sharpie and stamped some swirls. Did some background quilting which immediately dulled the black sharpie lines so stitched over them in black, then added some green on some of the quilting lines with a sharpie. The piece is finished with a facing. I will try more fabric painting in the future and love the crisp edge achieved with the freezer paper stencil. The quilting is a bit dodgy as it was done on my ancient machine which I haven't used for ages (my daughter has borrowed my good machine - and wants to keep it :-)