A new landscape quilt wall hanging

I am starting a new landscape quilt. This one will be an old picket fence, inspired by the one in Nancy Zeiman and Natalie Sewell's book.

I began with a batik cotton from Quilter's Curve in Combermere, Ontario. It is a light teal background with swirls through it. They could easily come across as shafts of sunlight in the finished wallhanging.

I then cut pieces of a grey mottled batik for the fence posts, but they just didn't seem right. So I went with a clear white cotton shirting fabric that I had, and did a lot of colouring with oil pastels, crayons and permanent markers.

This is just the start, I may add even more shading to the posts once I add more details to the quilt. It has to look like old wood, with that weathered look of mold and dirt aged by time.

There will be a lot of fussy cutting to this quilt. Lots of individual leaves and flowers to be cut, that will then be stitched over the fence to look as if they have always been there. I am so looking forward to this project.