One of the useful things I have learnt on the course I’m currently taking at QU is to do a value study before you start to think about a colour scheme. One of the exercises was to draw a simple landscape and then shade it in all the combinations of high, mid and low [...]
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I also did some printing with a freezer paper stencil. I made the design using the ideas in the article Expanded Square by Jane Dunnewold in Quilting Arts June/July 2007. The article just popped into my head when I was looking for inspiration for my freezer paper stencil. It was something I had been [...] My class on screen printing has been running for 2 weeks now. There was quite a bit of preparation to do so I only started any printing this weekend. The first experiments were with newspaper stencils. These are quick and easy to make and great for a motif that you don’t want to repeat [...] I’m working on my next challenge piece for Use Your Eyes. The theme is shadows. It didn’t take me long to choose an image to use. It was a photo I took as part of my C&Gs course. It was for an activity to do with the principles of design. I chose this photo [...] I thought I had the quilt top for my final assessment piece finished. I had sewn all the spirals together and filled in the hole with the black circle. It was all pressed and ready to be admired on the design wall, but my eyes kept sliding off the black focal point to an [...] Today I can show you the rest of my dyeing results. Here is the blue-green gradation, which will be fine for my next piece. The brown gradation didn’t come out nearly dark enough. I shall have a go at overdyeing at least the two darker ones and some other bits of red-brown fabric [...] I’m back and I’ve had quite a productive weekend. The first thing I got going on was my least favourite activity on the C&G course – sampling. I was a good girl though and sampled 3 construction techniques for the piecing of my next assessment piece, although only one was new to me! [...] I am about to start making my fourth assessment piece for C&G. It has to be a wall hanging inspired by the natural world. As I said in my last post I didn’t want to do anything too realistic, rather something more abstract. I also decided that I didn’t want to do any more [...] I’m back to working on my C&G coursework now. The next assessment piece is to be a household item and the design is to be inspired by a landscape theme. I’ve decided to make a tea cosy. Our kitchen colour scheme is white and grey with blue – a blue kettle, a blue pepper [...] Having made my one dolly I got quite interested in the idea of making more. I’m a bit of a collector/gatherer of ideas and not one of those who can work in a series for years on end perfecting one theme. So of course I started looking for more information on doll making. My [...] |
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