Water and its wild life piece

Mola type depiction of a sea horse set on a painted watery background. I so enjoyed making this piece, it was actually the first one of this series of 4. I had no idea what fabrics/colours I would use, it just evolved.

Irene MacWilliam - Water- 2016

This is the second of my pieces for this year. I have not got the images of the others ready for posting. I have taken the theme of water with wild life that  lives in or nearby. I used the empress mills cotton  fabric one gets in their bargain bundles for the water and used setacolor and dye-na-flo paints for the watery effect. All four pieces will have slightly different colouration of the water as they will all be done as one off pieces when needed.
For the creatures I was looking at mola applique but mine are stacked as opposed to being cut back to. Free machine work and quilting.

2015 images - Irene MacWilliam

As I am a new member of the group here is a little info about me. I live in Northern Ireland.
I have been working with textiles for almost 30 years. Current interests are working with black of white striped fabric to produce optical illusions or producing my own fabric for use in my work. I am a member of both the Northern Ireland Patchwork Guild and the Northern Ireland Embroidery Guild.
The  pieces above are the first 2 of the 4 for Maastricht. I sun printed the applied fabrics - that has been tricky as since I decided to do these pieces we have had virtually no sun; so sometimes fabric had to be rescued from the rain or the printing hardly worked at all. I used a thermofax screen for the birds on the LH piece. For the frogs I made my own screen then put the frog image on it using Speedball drawing ink and Speedball filler- the first time I had tried them. Now that I know how to do it I hope to be able to make better images as I try and perfect the technique.
They are called Environment Dwellers 1- bird and Environment Dwellers 2 - frog. Although only 4 are required I plan to make an additional 2..... if the sun ever shines!