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Luminous Landscapes
Quilted Visions in Paint & Thread

Author: Gloria Loughman
Pages: 96
Page size: 8 1/2" x 11 "
Publisher: C&T Publishing
Cover: Soft
Item Code: 4Q0365
Weight: 1.2 lb

20% off: $23.16
MSRP: $28.95

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Thread, Paint & Inspiration—The Sky's The Limit!

Let your inner artist out! Capture the glory of a sunrise or sunset, the stark outline of a tree against the sky, the placid surface of the ocean. Gloria has assembled a repertoire of techniques to give all your pictorial quilts breathtaking impact from working with photographs to painting fabric, creating silhouettes, constructing backgrounds and embellishing with stitching. Try one of the projects, or use the techniques in your own designs.

• Create unique and impressive landscape quilts from photos you take - includes tips for taking good pictures, how to combine elements of several photos into one design, and how to use color effectively.

• Yes, you can create stunning pictorial effects using step-by-step techniques! Learn how to paint your own fabrics and create striking silhouettes.

About the Author

Gloria Loughman lives in Kerang, a small Australian town famous for its duck shooting and ibis rookery. She is married and has three daughters. Gloria trained as a secondary school teacher and worked mainly in literacy and special education faculties. Her initiation into the world of patchwork occurred approximately sixteen years ago, when she was recovering from a rugged course of chemotherapy.

Over the years she has dabbled in many area, including strip piecing, bargello, colorwash, fabric dyeing and painting, and machine embroidery. After completing studies in design and color as part of a Diploma of Art in 1996, she began to make her large vivid landscape quilts depicting the Australian bush. These quilts have won many major awards in Australia, Europe, Japan and the United States. Her quilt, Kimberley Mystique was the winner of Australia's most prestigious national quilting award in 2003.

Gloria loves sharing her knowledge and skills with others. She like to challenge her students to design their own landscape quilts but is also happy to provide patterns. Many students come back for a second or third class.

As well as being in demand as a teacher, Gloria has curated six exhibitions of Australian quilts in the United States, and has had the privilege of judging at many major shows. Her work has been featured in many books and magazines.

What began as a therapy has developed into a passion and has given Gloria the opportunity to travel the world exhibiting her quilts, teaching classes and meeting lots of wonderful people.

Table of Contents

Joyce Becker's Landscape Books/DVD

»Mixed Media: Tsukineko inks & Fabrico Pens + free-motion machine embroidery

Ready to Paint Series by Search Press

Gourd Art

More Landscape & Nature Pictorial:
»Mixed Media (paint, pens, ink)
&/OR
»Hand OR Free-Motion Embroidery

Landscape Quilts
by Nancy Zieman & Natalie Sewell

Stencils

Stencils

Modular System
6" Square Repeat Design Stencils

Unique & very original Stencils that can be used with quilting, thread painting, glitter, foils, inks, paints, batik & more

Mixed Media

Books, Patterns, DVDs & More Index
instruction on using acrylic gel, mediums, pastes, inks, dyes, paints, foil, stamping, stenciling, mixing with hand/machine embroidery & beading, stamping, doodling & more.

Fabric Inks & Alcohol Inks

Foil, Craft Metal & Glues (Use with Alcohol Inks)

Fabric Paints, Paintstiks & Pigments

MicroCut Glitter & Glue

1. Jones Tones Poly Prismatic Holo Crystals Glitter & Confetti Glitter Shapes
2. Jones Tones MicroCut / Ultra Fine Glitter
Highlighter, Metallic, Hologram, Prismatic, Glitter Glue
3. Jones Tones Glues for Foil, Glitter, Fabric & More

Fabric & Illustration Pens

Micas added to Pigment & Paints for that extra glitz

Tools & Accessories for Paint, Stencil & Craft Projects

ALL Stamps, Stamp Pads, Cleaner, Books, DVDs

DVD, CD, Videos for Embellishment & Surface Design

Fabric Dyes

Art Quilts & Mixed Media Books & Magazines