Casa Mila Gate

 

                             

 

 

 

                 

 

I chose Antoni Gaudi’s massive Iron Gate in the Casa Mila (La Pedrera). The gate gave access to the interior of the building and was originally used by both people and cars, as access to the garage in the basement. This is now an Auditorium.

The first two pictures show me cutting and peeping through the Draughting Vellum.

On my piece, cords were sewn on, to give texture to the gate (the wrought iron); the pillars on either side, have course net laid over them, to depict concrete.  The view through the gate was firstly done with fabric paint, which did not work. Then I tried Oil Pastels, but still not bright enough, so fabric snippets and lace were sewn into the gaps of the gate to create a brighter background. I wanted a frame around the piece and used a brown fabric.

I hope I have done justice to Gaudi’s amazing genius!

 

Allison

 

 

 

 

  

On to the next challenge piece...

 Here goes:  Islamic Architecture.

I encourage you to have a look at modern Islamic architecture as well as ancient and traditional.  Plenty of scope I think.

Have fun,

Hilary

PS - I don't have a clue what I'm going to do!

 Inspired by the Casa Batllo 

    I found the glass mosaic on the walls of the Casa Batllo to be quite  interesting I especially liked the contrast between the angular shapes of the mosaics and the circles.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Casa_Batll%C3%B3_(Casa_dels_ossos)_in_Barcelona_by_Antoni_Gaud%C3%AD.JPG

I stencilled the mosaic and made the appliqué circles from a piece of silk from my silk painting days

 

GAUDI MOSAIC

Yes I did it again - I so enjoyed doing the last one that I put up when I chose Gaudi as our theme I decided I had to do something similar.  I did intend to do it set into a wall but ran out of space and it would have spoilt the design.  I was inspired by a stained glass window in the Cathedral but when I went back to try and find it, unfortunately I never found it again.  I think with his architecture, stained glass, mosaics etc one can become totally overwhelmed with his colour and designs among other things he created.  I obviously changed what I originally found and made it my own which is below.  Loved this theme.  I did size it the same as Hilary 20" square as I needed the extra space.

Gaudala

This is my rendition of a mandala - by Gaudi.  I think we were all spoilt for choice with ideas inspired by this wonderful, flamboyant architect.  At one stage I considered a wrought iron dragon gate with a mosaic of flowers in a garden behind (a la Dilys Fronks) but those wonderful, weird, crazy chimney pots mostly hidden away from sight on rooftops in Barcelona called to me.

My piece is simple but it was a lot of fun to construct.  Raw-edge applique, mostly commercial fabrics and some Batiks, machine quilting.  It measures just under 20" square.

 

Thanks, Patricia, that brought back a lot of good memories of Quilt Expo in Barcelona.

Hilary

Gaudi Window

Gaudi was a genius  with engineering and with design . In many of his buildings he inserted beautifully crafted stained glass windows . For my quilt I have chosen a window which was inserted into the outer wall of the Guell colony crypt.

Rosemary

Africa & Gaudi meet!

I was in the Kruger Park when the challenge came thru and we had just had an amazing sighting of approx 18 giraffe with their mosaic patterns. This was a sign I had to include them.

Doing my research the inside of the La Sagrada Familia stuck out as all I saw were the legs of a 'tower' of giraffe.

Yes, this was the route I was going to take. After much procrastinating I chickened out and opted for an outside take. 

The giraffe could feature at the entrance to a building as the struts are above. 

A bit of  cheeky fun using applique, paint and stitch. 

 

Thank you Hilary for the reminder to choose the next person to reveal our new challenge.

And the person to choose is ................

HILARY

Deconstruct(ivism)

Sorry it's taken so long, folks.  Somewhere along the line I lost my mojo - buried under all the other 'stuff' in my life.

Right from the start I had this in mind, but wasn't sure it fitted the theme.  I looked at loads of other marvellous, crazy buildings around the world - and there are plenty!  Just watched a programme on TV from the Smithsonian channel showing several Frank Gehry buildings.  I looked long and hard at the new V&A in Dundee.  But I kept coming back to this idea.  I suppose it was because the theme was announced right at the 20th Anniversary moment and there were images everywhere.  So here it is.

It is 16" x 20".  Whole cloth with paint and applique.  Machine quilted.

This challenge opened my eyes to a lot more architecture that is being built.  I'm not sure I like the direction it is going.  I wonder how they would like to work in some of these buildings...

I am wondering if I should now make a companion piece and feature the Ground Zero building - which I do like.  First, Gaudi!

Hilary

 Chetham's Deconstructed

   At first when I found out about this challenge, I considered deconstructing/reconstructing one of my architecture quilts, but in the end I don't think I could have cut into one of them, even one of those that I didn't think had been successful or didn't like. So instead I considered some of the printed fabric that was left over from my Chetham library quilt. I was drawn to the buildings with curved rather than straight lines, and it was whilst I was looking at the quilt that I made for the Paul Klee challenge in the artist series (12 By the Dozen: DOTTY ABOUT KLEE) that I thought using the same curved lines might work. I tried it out first with  paper prints.

I printed some white on black fabrics to go with the white ones that were left. After that it was fairly simple to put together. The design came out a little bit smaller than planned, so I added the black border, which I think makes it look better than it did without. I originally intended to quilt parallel lines following the inside of each shape, but when I tried it, I found it distracted from the shapes, making the design too busy, so I abandoned that idea. It is quilted minimally, round the square just under the black border, as I felt it really did not need anything more.

Hundertwasser Centre opens in Whangarei, NZ

 I thought this news clip is really pertinent to the current theme of architecture and I gather from comments and offerings I have seen over the last year or so, you fellow bloggers would enjoy this good news story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzVCfcTMW1c

Deconstructivism from NZ

Deconstructionism . I did not enjoy this challenge much but can understand why architects needed to expand on their designs of straight up and down buildings . I wonder how the buildings function inside . Hopefully the office spaces are on the level!

Rosemary