Monday, August 03, 2009

New Work


Finally finished! Here's a quilt that was started last year on viewing a fabulous exhibit of Nancy Crow's new work. Trying to learn from her, I triple dyed the fabrics, then machine pieced the top. How is it that an entire year can pass between times working on a project? This weekend I spent some time with the quilt and finished the backing and the quilting. Voila!

In preparation for my November's art show, I gave myself a mini art retreat weekend. While I worked on some painting and color theory (and the above quilt), I also tried tearing apart ugly clay monoprints and sewing them back together. The jury is still out on how effective this new technique is, so if you want to weigh in and leave me a comment, that would be welcome.

I've been thinking here about doors and windows; the comings and goings of our lives.

 
 
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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