This last week I took a course with our local Quilt Guild - now, I am NOT a quilter, do not like the art of quilts myself (although I can admire them and understand why others love them). So I was hesitant about this course from the get go but two of my favourite fibre art friends would be taking it and I figured I should consider expanding my horizons. 
The course was called "Serendipity Quilting" which also sounded way too touchy-feeling for my liking but I forged on - with low expectations. Turns out, I was completely inspired and transformed by this class and the instructors way of looking at fabric and "painting" with it. Good lesson for me to widen my horizons and broaden my "definitions' of fibre art...Susan Carlson was the artist/instructor. Here is some of her work...
Her work is definitely amazing and definitely quilting - but her work with light and shadow is what transfixed and transformed me.
With her help, and working with my own silks, she let me modify her techniques and shared some of her great "painting" secrets with me....Here is what I started with. The second is the same fish on the background I hand dyed...
