The Sunset

The Sunset is the third quilt of this year’s Fifteen by Fifteen challenge. I am following the chosen artist. In my case it was a Russian painter Arkhip Kuindzhi (1841- 1910), whose style was realism. I am not copying his works but only am following his style that had a focus on natural light effects. I already made two quilts in his style : Moonlight on the Atlantic Ocean and Antelope Canyon.

My quilt #3 is based on a photo that one evening in the early spring I took through my living room window. The sky was beautifully red and the light was reflecting from a few windows of the dark building:

First I had to make reversed paper sketch of my photo:

For the sunset sky I used my own hand dyed fabric that I had for years. Finally it found its way into a quilt:

The building and tree trunks were cut out from commercial black fabric and fused onto background with Wonder Under. The small branches were machine embroidered and everything was machine quilted:

I wonder now what I am going to make for the next challenge, because I broke my arm a week ago.