Last week I spent two days making art with Mitch Lyons. Wow! I didn't know what hit me.
Work just poured out of me. I haven't had such fun since I took a workshop with Melody Johnson. I felt real connections between these monoprints and fused quilts--the immediacy of each, the work with raw color. I also felt a correlation to the illustration of Denise Fleming. Somehow these three different art forms are close, and I want to explore them. I think it is that in each of these three methods, the artist works with pure color. In the clay monoprints, pigments are added to white china clay; in Denise's paper pulp painting, pigment is added to cotton pulp; and with the fused quilting I have done, in the style of the Chicago School of Fusing, hand-dyed cotton fabrics are the result of bold pigment added to cotton. Pure color is very important in each form. That's not saying that a lot of planning, sketching, technique and preparing doesn't go into these pieces, they do. I'm grasping for words here...not articulating very well. I'll think on it.
I know that I'm itching to sew the monoprints. Colored clay printed on pellon and remay. Don't know that I can fuse it, but I know I can sew it! I will provide photos tomorrow of the prints.
1 comment:
Fabulous works Cheryl. Very inspiring! Looks like so much fun. Monoprinting is always a blast, don't know why I don't do it more. And I think you are really onto something with the pure colour idea in this post. I agree and shall think on it some more to see if I can come up with something else to say about it. Thanks for the tipoff to something I hadn't been able to express!
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