Welcome to Parker - City Landmark
The EveryDay Matters Challenge #41 - draw a city landmark. [I recently joined the EDM discussion group to think about drawing exercises in fabric. I’m cheating this week and using an old piece.]
I live in Parker, Colorado, where everything town related has a Victorian light post attached to it (check out the town logo on their webpage). I still don’t quite grasp how a small horse town on the prairie decided to be Victorian but for some reason it is.
I made this quilt in 1997 and entered in our local annual art show “Images of Parker” where it won Best of Show and was purchased by the town. It used to hang in the Mainstreet Center but it’s gone so I’m not sure where it went, and I’m afraid to ask!
This is by far the most representational thing I have ever drawn or used in a piece of my art. I’m still amazed it actually looks like a street light.
Welcome To Parker © 1997, 51″ x 45″
Posted by in: Drawings, Quilts - Older Work
Elaine M said,
November 20, 2005 @ 12:26 pm
gorgeous! your quilts are beautiful.
I am from Newfoundland where quilting is an old tradition. Almost every woman I knew growing up there had made a quilt (often many quilts) usually utilitarian and from used scrap fabric. Your’s, of course, are very different but it is interesting to me to see where quilting is now. In Nfld, the traditional quilt is still made and I know there are women who are making contemporary quilts.
Elaine M
Vikki said,
November 20, 2005 @ 3:31 pm
Lisa,
I love Welcome to Parker. I have a question for you. How do you get and remain productive?
Felicity said,
November 21, 2005 @ 6:05 am
It’s a fabulous quilt! I would never have thought to make street lamps look like so much fun! The circles give the quilt movement and perhaps a party feel?
Micki said,
November 21, 2005 @ 11:50 am
This is a wonderful piece. The background glows and sets off the marvelous way you portrayed the lamp posts. I think I would want to know what happened to this piece.
Linda said,
November 21, 2005 @ 1:33 pm
What a beautiful quilt! It looks just like lamp posts — amazing!
Sherrill Pearson said,
January 18, 2006 @ 11:03 am
Lisa,
This is gorgeous! I love the playful, upbeat rush I get from this piece. What skill, to get those lamp posts so darn PERFECT.
Sherrill