Friday, February 04, 2005

Seamless Skin

Seamless Skin

COLOR
I love what Karoda says in her blog today about color--about how when life is too mean, and you get to feeling just too low down, just seeing the "lines of color...and for a few seconds of meditaion all seems in order and right with the world."

Her beautiful words make me think about my own need for color--how when I was in counseling I kept saying that I needed to do something--paint, quilt, something-- in color. What was lacking, depleated? What is there in color that is stimulating and rejuvenating? What is there about color that feeds & nourishes?

Tomorrow I will attend two lectures at the AQS show in Wheeling, and guess what? They are on "Color for Quilters"! Yippee! I'll be nurtured and filled and hopefully can come home in the afternoon to fuse!

Saw on the Artfabr!k page that Laura has a new idea--fusing on black to look like a woodcut. I LOVE woodcuts! I will take another look at Blanche Lazell's work (although that would mean white backgrounds) and of course Mary Azarian's work. This could be oh, so cool! I'll post a copy of one of Laura's woodblock quilts.
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Karoda said...

Cheryl, please post about the lectures and have fun! Did it warm up there today...it reached in the 50s here and that was after starting my morning with a thick coat of frost covering my car from back to front...

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PURLS OF WISDOM

"Color is the real substance for me, the real underlying thing which drawing and line are not."
--Sam Francis

"The great man is one who never loses his child's heart."
-- Philosopher Mencius

"We wear our attitudes in our bodies."
-- Patti Davis

Colour embodies an enormous though unexplored power which can effect the entire human body as physical organism.

Colour is a means of exercising direct influence upon the soul.
--V. Kandinsky
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way.. things I had no words for.
--Georgia O'Keeffe

Nothing is really work unless you'd rather be doing something else.
--J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

Faith is like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
--E. L. Doctorow

Somebody once said that people become artists
because they have a certain kind of energy to release, and that rings true to me.
--Dale Chihuly