Idaho Skies-endless reference material. One of the benefits of living in Idaho is the incredible skies which we can view at any moment. The other day my hubby and I took Jet the dog out for a run. Our usual location is across from the Ice Caves on a road just off highway 75. A storm was rolling in that day and In a half hour, I captured quite a few incredible shots. I love designing and painting skies, especially when creating quilts for the Big Sky Series. My ratio is three-quarters of the creation is the sky and one-quarter the ground. Here is a couple of sky shots.
One of my next art quilts will probably be another Halloween scene with a stormy night as the background. I put these shots into my adobe photoshop program and changed them to black and white. I can either use tracing paper and trace the outlines or just use it the way it is. For this purpose I want all the detail to be in my pattern.
Which one of these pictures looks the spookiest in black and white? I believe the top picture fits the bill. Can’t you envision ghosts, bats, or maybe a witch flying across it? It also has a good front-to-back proportion to add stuff in the front which will eventually be the focal point. How about gravestones? After saving it as a smaller file it was imported into the Easy Poster Printer program to blow it up to a larger size. Ok, what size is this finished art piece going to be? I am thinking 36″ x 30″. More on this art quilt design in another post.
Here are some more reference shots from my shoot. How would these look in your next art quilt creation?
I hope you are inspired in some way to create more skies in your next quilt design. Aren’t we blessed to live in Idaho which I lovingly call the big sky state?
We do have the most beautiful skies! I will be watching to see how you capture them. I cannot imagine.
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I LOVE sky pictures! Yep…the top one would be the scariest in black and white.
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Beautiful sky photos. I pick the same black and white that you did. A witch flying through it would be amazing!
I think this new art quilt with that sky will be a castle.
Beautiful sky pictures..I like either the 1st or 2nd picture in black and white for the spookiest. I don’t know if anyone else sees this, but in the first and second set of cloud pictures, in the 2nd photo, I see an outline of a witch in the clouds. In the last set of pictures, I love the first one.
Thanks Elaine, I will go look for the witch…