Lisa Call

Chairs #15: Cerro Grande – Canyons Burning
©2002 Lisa Call
29″ x 40″
Textile Painting (Fabric hand painted by the artist, cotton batting, cotton thread)
$1600 $960 + shipping

Artful Home Studio Sale

This weekend is the perfect summer weekend. Yoga, hiking, cooking, relaxing with a friend, hiking, hacking large weeds out of my yard to prepare for my upcoming landscape project. And of course studio time and making progress on art biz stuff.

Today’s project is processing images of older artwork to be included in the Artful Home Studio sale. I’m adding 5 new – older pieces to the sale this round.

I’m including 3 pieces from my Chairs series. Including the one above.

The sale will run July 13 thru 29 at the artful home website.

Cerro Grande

I hand painted/dyed the fabric in this textile painting in a workshop with Ann Johnston in the Spring of 2000 in Colorado.

This was during the Cerro Grande fire, a devastating fire in New Mexico that destroyed homes and many trees in and near Los Alamos, my home town. A very sad event.

Days after dyeing the fabric, I completed the design for the textile painting but didn’t add the quilting until a few years later.

This is the last of the large quilts in the Chairs series, as not long after completing this piece, I started on my Structures series, which now numbers over 100 pieces.

 
If you can’t wait for the studio sale, let me know and you can buy this piece from my website (I’ll send you a paypal invoice or you can pay by check, or you can even pay in 3 installments of $325, whatever works for you).

Artful Home

The Artful Home Studio Sale started today or maybe it was yesterday.

Either case you can peruse some of my older artwork that I don’t think I’ve ever shown online before. When I moved I came across some older work from my embellishing days. Lots of beads and buttons on these. I’ve also added in a few of the older pieced artworks also.

It’s a fun trip down memory lane for me to look at this work so I’ve decided to show them on the blog as a group as it’s fun to see our history.

Space Donuts

My preschool aged son wanted help with this quilt, so I let him name it. I love what he came up with.

This quilt is collage appliqued, machine quilted with rayon and metallic threads and hand beaded.

Space Donuts
© 1998 Lisa Call
25.5" x 21.5"
Quilt (fabric, beads, trim, threads, batting)
$1590 $795 – on artfulhome

 
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Chicken Quartet #1

A singing chicken! A group of 4 embroidered cocktail napkins found at a garage sale were the inspiration for this fun wall art.

The quilt is composed of commercial cotton fabric over dyed fabric by the artist and a selection of vintage fabrics to compliment the chickens. The piece is heavily embellished with beads and buttons for an updated folk art look.
 

Chicken Quartet #1
© 2004 Lisa Call
12.5" x 13.5"
Quilt (fabric, buttons, beads, batting, thread)
$700 $350 – on artfulhome

 
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El Niño

In 1997 they predicted would be a wet year for the western part of the United States due to the warming El Nino currents in the Pacific Ocean. In October my home in Colorado was buried beneath 3 feet of snow overnight. This quilt is the result of being snowed in that weekend.

Collage appliqued, heavily embellished with machine quilted with rayon and metallic threads and hand beaded.

El Niño
© 1997 Lisa Call
34" x 31"
Quilt (fabric, buttons, paint, batting, thread)
$990 $495 – on artfulhome

 
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Chairs #6

Chairs No. 6 is part of a series of work that was inspired by the shape of my kids’ highchair. They spent a lot of time there and I spent a lot of time washing it. So it was bound to inspire my artwork. Bright colors combined with black and white result in a very graphic and cheerful composition

Free hand cut, pieced and quilted with swirling quilting patterns in multiple complimenting colors on a home sewing machine.
 

Chairs #6
©2000 Lisa Call
18" x 18"
Quilt (fabric, batting, thread)
$390 $195 – on artfulhome

 
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Blossoms II

Japanese style cherry blossoms embellished with button centers. The irregular shape was fun to work with.

Raw edge applique, machine quilted, painted, embellished.
 

Blossoms II
©1997 Lisa Call
34" x 31"
Quilt (fabric, buttons, paint, batting, thread)
Sold

 
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Insalada Caprese

Fresh Mozzarella and Tomato Salad – a summer garden inspired artwork. A simple recipe that requires little effort (cut up cheese and tomatoes and drizzle with olive oil) and it sounds so yummy in Italian. The green is for a bit of fresh basil to make the dish (and art) more interesting. And of course I don’t grow just red tomatoes in my garden but also orange and yellow ones also.

Hand dyed fabric by the artist, cotton batting, cotton thread. Free hand cut. Pieced and Quilted on a home sewing machine.
 

Insalada Caprese
©2002 Lisa Call
34" x 31"
Quilt (fabric, buttons, paint, batting, thread)
$1190 $595 – on artfulhome

 
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Insalada Caprese
Textile Painting
©2002 Lisa Call
24" x 24"
$600
Purchase Here

Studio Sale

One of the items on my todo list this week is to enter the information for 6 older pieces of art into the artfulhome studio sale coming up in July. When I moved I came across a batch of work from my embellishing days so that’s mostly what will be listed.

The sale is a chance for me to find new homes for some of my older work and for my fans to own some of my work for a smaller initial investment than my normal prices. A win-win all around – I free up some storage space and you get beautiful art for your walls.

In the last studio sale I sold all of the quilts in my Stones series. It’s nice to know they have a new home.

I photographed all the work last weekend and it’s looking pretty good (love my new photo processing skills). It’s quite a bit of work to upload everything at artful home so I’m taking that a little bit at a time.

The above quilt is one I’m going to add and in a bit of avoidance (not in the mood for artful home) and desperation (I wasn’t in the mood for a more thoughtful post tonight) I decided to write about this quilt tonight.

Wed or Thurs I promise promise to write that blog post about the Sandy Skoglund lecture as I finally found my notes and now have no excuse. I did catch up on blog comments so if I didn’t answer a question you had please reask it and I’ll be more on top of thing now.

Insalada Caprese

Although this piece is very closely related to my Structures series, the quilting lines (big red circles that represent big tomatoes) makes it enough different that I don’t think of it as part of that series, and hence a very different pricing structure.

This quilt was included in the invitational traveling exhibit Potluck Quilts: Art Quilts from the Piecemakers and appeared in numerous museum shows around the country.

The requirements to participate in this show were as follows:

* Quilts are to depict some aspect of a potluck meal – food, drink, table decorations, etc.
* Each quilt is to incorporate in it red and white checks representing a tablecloth in some way.
* All quilts are to be 24″ square.
* Please include a recipe of the potluck dish depicted on your quilt to be published in the catalog.

Of the 50+ artists that participated I was one of a small handful to make an abstract piece. My red and checked tablecloth is that series of red and white stripes on the lower left.

My recipe was fresh mozzarella and tomatoes. Not really a recipe that needs much effort (cut up cheese and tomatoes and put on a plate) but it sounds better in Italian. The green is for a bit of fresh basil to make the dish (and art) more interesting. And of course I don’t grow just red tomatoes in my garden but also orange and yellow ones also.

I think not getting to have a garden this year (between the lack of landscaping and being gone for a month while in Africa it just didn’t seem like a good idea) also inspired my renewed happiness with this quilt. Reminds me of all those lovely tomatoes I used to grow. Next year – yep – they’ll be back.

Insalata Caprese

4-5 large ripe red and yellow tomatoes
1 pound fresh mozzarella cheese
1/3 cup fresh basil leaves
extra virgin olive oil
salt
fresh ground black pepper

Slice tomatoes and mozzarella, about ¼” thick. Arrange on large platter with basil leaves. Drizzle with olive oil. Sprinkle with salt and pepper.

June Studio Newsletter

I’m working on my June Studio Newsletter so look for that in your inbox later this week or early next week. You’ll be one of the first people to see Structures #73 and the new format for my newsletter.

I’m moving to a monthly newsletter because I find when I do things on a schedule it’s easier. Only writing one 4 times a year made it seem like a huge chore. I’m putting a lot of work into creating systems around my art business and this is the first big step in that direction.

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