The Season of the King Of Spring

     It's Spring in the Pacific Northwest - and it is displayed today with sunshine and temperatures forecast in the 70's.  Ever since early March brought the first frog/toad choruses of the season, I have been thinking about the early signs of spring.  My favorite is the croaking at night of what sound like hundreds/thousands of froggie voices, letting one another know they're alive and interesting in dating!
     My art 'small group' had a challenge to make a 9" piece based on the theme of "Spring" that would become the basis for a "round robin" activity.  I managed to keep my piece under 10" [just barely], and immediately thought of my frog friends that have serenaded me over the decades.  And, whom to portray?  Why, the King of Spring, himself! 
     The quilting is based on the type that Linda and Laura Kemshall do - and I painted over the free-motion stitching on gold-yellow cotton, painted with white acrylic paint to give it even more depth.  The frog king is a copyright-free image from the internet painted with acrylic paint and glued to the quilted piece with acrylic matte medium prior to applying the paint. 

The back of the piece looks interesting, too, I think.  Not that anyone will ever see it, but it's fun to know the pattern is alive on the back as well.
     Merrily we Spring along - waiting for Summer to arrive with its multitude of announcements in the kingdoms of flora and fauna!