Ever since I began makign art quilts I've liked the effect of a cross-section of a scene. This one originally started out from a photograph of a light house that I sketched out in india ink and then added to it for a full quilt. I had to practice taking out a lot of the light house detail so that it would fit the quilt better but this picture is the final design:

This was drawn onto the fabric with colored pencils which are not water soluable. After getting frustrated with painting over my own lines I went out and bought some dress maker pencils so I don't have this problem again. When painting from a sketch I usually only draw in the large features and then figure out the detail on my own. I always have several photographs or designs I look at while painting.

This is the background and the foreground painted and drying. The sky and water were painted very wet on wet. The clouds were wet on dry.

More detail with the side panels:

I wasn't quite sure how the best way to paint the pieces was. I actually didn't start out with one big square of fabric but instead all of them seperate because I wanted it to not quite match up.