BEAUTY: Fabric Art--Paula Kovarik

These wonderful, intricate, doodle-y images are not paintings but quilts! Fabric artist Paula Kovarik uses the age-old quilting technique to draw new lines and designs and create something entirely unique.

Top to bottom: Aha Moments; Beacons; Chaos Ensues; City; Do The Doodle; Focus On Something Else; I Need A Third Eye; Pollinators (detail); Pollinators; Signals; Stream Of Consequences; Unglued; Worry

http://www.paulakovarik.com/

BEAUTY: Fabric Art--Bisa Butler

The absolutely stunning quilting and fabric work of artist Bisa Butler hearkens back to the roots of African American experience, evoking Gullah culture and Gee's Bend quilts. She uses no paint at all in these incredible fabric portraits...just cotton, silk, wool and velvet in quilted and appliqué techniques. The hue and chroma and shading she gets is phenomenal.

Top to bottom: Broom Jumpers; Dear Mama; I Am Not Your Negro; I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings; Kindred; To Truth and God detail; To Truth and God detail; close up of a portrait; Bisa Butler at work; Bisa Butler at work

https://www.instagram.com/bisabutler/