Gaye Alger – Monochromatic – View of an Omani Village
The inspiration for this piece was a photograph of a village in the mountains taken whilst sightseeing.
I chose to work with the colour blue because it’s a colour I normally avoid, preferring to work with turquoise. I used tints, tones and shades (not quite as dark as I had hoped) of hand dyed fabrics.
The appliques were stitched with free motion straight stitch and it was finished with free motion quilting.
Close up View:
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I love those trees, popping up against buildings and sky.
it is fascinating to see a blue, monochromatic take on a landscape, as well as to get a taste of what Oman looks like. Turning everything blue makes one look at the shapes rather than the colours.
there is something of a “Klee” watercolour in your quilt ! beautiful
What a beautiful interpretation of the theme Gaye. I love the landscape in blue. So happy you’re “with us” again.
Thank you everyone. It was something different for me. I’m going to try and create a small Omani series for this year. A new challenge.
I love this quilt, finding it so interesting that you have produced a landscape in shades of one colour, a very interesting idea. I think I may try this myself.
Gaye your quilting is always a delight and the way you have used it brings the mountains into focus and as already mentioned the way you have used the blue shapes is also a credit to your talents as an artist. Do we have a series in the making?
I can just see the landscapes of Oman, a wonderful way of interpreting them, great use of colour and stitch.
It si so nice how you used simpel shapes to create a village. I love your background quilting!
What a surprising and successful use of colour to produce a landscape. I think that this is very innovative and well constructed