Jennifer McBrien
Baltimore, MD
Jennifer McBrien is a Baltimore textile artist who uses her sewing machine as a drawing tool to honor her fragile subjects
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This piece is titled "Ruby” that is based off of my painting contour line drawings of my student Ruby. Ruby has a Green tail Towhee head with a teenager body and is freehand machine stitched on organza and appliqué and stitched on legal paper pattern fabric. The walnuts that she is watching are freehand machine stitched on high quality felt. The diagram of plant transition is freehand machine stitched on the fabric directly.
This final piece is stretched on a wooden painting panel and then framed with a pine wood. The dimensions of this framed work is 11.5" X 9.5" X 2"
- Framed: 9.5 x 9.5 x 2 in
- Subject Matter: narrative figurative
- Collections: Watch Children
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