A gallery of the quilts created for the Fast Friday Fabric Challenges. The quilt artists display their work here to give and receive constructive critiques. Only blog members may comment.
Thursday, November 02, 2006
Jibber Jabber
9" x 9" The image is based on a jester's mask and refers to the playful use of words in the poem. Penny Irwin
Hi Penny, Your fun-loving nature is showing! Thanks for mixing up the pot…some of us went to over to the dark side on this one. It’s a cheerful, fun piece, but it is so symmetrical (both the interior elements and the square size of the quilt) that it doesn’t grab your interest. I took your photo into Photoshop and cropped it asymmetrically several different ways and I like it very much. It would cut it down to postcard size, but I think it is more interesting and shows off the fabrics better and the wonderful couched fibers become more of the focus. The complementary colors of violet and yellow/green are really good.
Hi Penny - It looks like you had a good time putting this piece together. I like the yin/yang balance you've got going. I like your fabrics and colors but I don't quite feel that there is a focal point that my eye wants to return to. I see the jester's mask that you were making but somehow I feel it needs something more. The yarns move my eye around a bit but there's not a central theme/object/color drawing my eye back into it.
Cynthia's suggestion for some judicious cropping would probably do the trick.
Hi Penny,
ReplyDeleteYour fun-loving nature is showing! Thanks for mixing up the pot…some of us went to over to the dark side on this one. It’s a cheerful, fun piece, but it is so symmetrical (both the interior elements and the square size of the quilt) that it doesn’t grab your interest. I took your photo into Photoshop and cropped it asymmetrically several different ways and I like it very much. It would cut it down to postcard size, but I think it is more interesting and shows off the fabrics better and the wonderful couched fibers become more of the focus. The complementary colors of violet and yellow/green are really good.
Cynthia
Hi Penny - It looks like you had a good time putting this piece together. I like the yin/yang balance you've got going. I like your fabrics and colors but I don't quite feel that there is a focal point that my eye wants to return to. I see the jester's mask that you were making but somehow I feel it needs something more. The yarns move my eye around a bit but there's not a central theme/object/color drawing my eye back into it.
ReplyDeleteCynthia's suggestion for some judicious cropping would probably do the trick.
I look forward to seeing more.
Roberta
I like the bright cheery colors and the fun yarn you chose.
ReplyDeletePerhaps you could add some new elements to make a more assymetrical composition and also to define a focal point.