May's theme for our Art Chick's group is:  ferns!  Luckily, May is the month when ferns of all types and sizes unfurl from the warming soil and spring forth as swords of many ilks and greens!  I took a photo walk in my garden recently, and decided that I'd change the gorgeous verdant leaves to black and white.  This art piece was created with fern fronds as a monoprint/sunprint, using thinned black Setacolor transparent paint on PFD white fabric.  I then thread-sketched over the negative prints of the ferns themselves, and added outline quilting to hint at the movement of the ferns in the breezes that blow through our Pacific Northwest on a fairly constant basis.  So, black + white or in living color, these ferns are an annual sign that spring has sprung and summer is not far behind.