Landscape Quilting Sketch Tutorial



Does this look like a tree and some grass?

or is this better grass

Let's rough cut some land and call it sky, land and water!  To rough cut, be really choppy with your scissors.

Now rough cut a tree from the dark fabric

I choose a Superior Rainbow thread to stitch the grass in.  It's dead grass!

Stitching the grass is very random and rough.

The tree was stitched with a solid color Superior trilobal polyester

The smaller branches were first drawn in with a black Pigma Pen

The tree is stitched

Colored pencils add subtle variety to the water

Teal, purple and gray oil pastels were added in small amounts to the sky

Black brush marker and gray oil pastel shade the sunny and shadowed side of the tree while white oil pastel adds highlights to the water.

Blach and gray oil pastel mark the shoreline and shadow in the water.

Maybe some cattails will add interest to the water and soften the shoreline.

This little sketch is done for now.  This is not a completed art quilt.  It is a study to be used for trying out diffrerent techniques and materials.  Making numerous sketches that are simple in design can be used to develop skill and decide what techniques you like to use and when.