Monday, April 30, 2012
Lady Arbor
I have been fascinated with the principles of Gestalt, and in this piece tried to use as many as I could. The sky is woven using many different fabrics for texture and contrast, the repeating shapes represent Proximity. The birds swooping from top, across the quilt and out the side show Continuation. The repeating shapes of the birds- Similarity; the bird flying in the opposite direction-Anomaly; The tree/lady- Closure.
The tree is appliqué cut in one piece using a suede cloth, and the leaves are 'beaded’ netting. The birds are appliqués made from a copper tissue lame fused to a copper suede cloth.
Your comments gratefully received...
Cherie
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Cavorting Trees
This picture of trees fascinated me and encouraged me to try the same thing. It is thread painted, painted with watercolor pencil and sheva sticks, appliqued and quilted. It measures 10x14".
Pat Havey
Pat Havey
La Luna
After reading the challenge, I started googling for ideas and found one that just leaped off the page at me. This image (8th one down on that page) made me think of some B&W striped fabric I had in my stash, but alas, I didn't have enough of it (and no more at the quilt shop, I checked!). But I started in, and knocked this one out in 4 hours.
The striped fabric was strip cut and reassembled to alternate the strips. The inset circle was doing with Cathy Miller's circle technique (found in her songbook, page 41, and I was the hand model!). Quilted with black and white variegated thread (King Tut!), and simply bound. Done.
Fun to just play. A lot of the gestalt work struck me as also Op-Art.... and I love it when things come together so fast!... Comments of course are welcome and appreciated.
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Find Your Own Path
I haven't posted in a while. Between work and my husband's health, anything creative has been on the back burner. However, finals are coming up next week and I hope to have some time to play this summer. This was a really great challenge and I may make another one using one of the other principles.
LindaBN from Louisiana
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Challenge 68 - Gestalt Art
Challenge 68: Gestalt in Art
Gestalt Theory holds that “the whole is other than the sum of its parts”. Kurt Koffka (the whole exists independently from its parts). Parts identified individually have different characteristics to the whole;
e.g. describing a tree,-its parts are trunk, branches, leaves, perhaps blossoms or fruit. But when you look at an entire tree, you are not conscious of the parts, you are aware of the overall object-the tree. Parts are of secondary importance even though they can be clearly seen.
When your first impression of a design is positive, when you instinctively see it as good, it’s likely because one or more “Gestalt Principles of Perception” are at play.
The challenge: Create your piece using one or more of the Gestalt Principles as described below:
I hope you will find these ideas fascinating, as I do. Have fun and I’m really looking forward to your ideas!
Cherie
.Here is a wonderful little video with Bobby McFerrin demonstrating the theory with music…I love it!
Here are some terrific resources for learning about the Gestalt Theory:
Seven principles of design:
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Challenge Themes
Monday, April 23, 2012
Dawn on Sea - Silvia Dell'Aere
Hi :)
I've used this challenge as guideline to make my last piece. I've made it for my solo show I've had last week, and it's a piece that talks about my love for sea.
Measures: 86x39 inches
Technique: hand dyed cotton and machine quilting
Title: (the title is a short poetry I've written, I'll try to translate it for you in english)
A sea stirs in me / foaming, flashing, / then comes the dawn
Full:
Details: waves on bottom left corner, sun rays in top right corner and 3 seagulls from top left to bottom right corners
Every comment's welcome :)
I've used this challenge as guideline to make my last piece. I've made it for my solo show I've had last week, and it's a piece that talks about my love for sea.
Measures: 86x39 inches
Technique: hand dyed cotton and machine quilting
Title: (the title is a short poetry I've written, I'll try to translate it for you in english)
A sea stirs in me / foaming, flashing, / then comes the dawn
Full:
Details: waves on bottom left corner, sun rays in top right corner and 3 seagulls from top left to bottom right corners
Every comment's welcome :)
Labels:
Challenge 67,
Silvia Dell'Aere
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Friday, April 06, 2012
Untitled and unfinished
I have really struggled with this challenge. In the end, I decided that I would paint, and then quilt a seascape. The painting didn't go so well. My last attempt looked perfect while it was wet but faded into nothing as it dried. The sailboat was added in an effort to bring it to life. And then I realized that there is too much wind in the sails for such a quiet sea. Perhaps it's a ghost ship, and sails along without benefit of wind.
Certainly not one of my best efforts, but I plan to persevere with it and see what happens.
Pat F in Winnipeg
aka fndlmous
Certainly not one of my best efforts, but I plan to persevere with it and see what happens.
Pat F in Winnipeg
aka fndlmous
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Pat f in Winnipeg
Tuesday, April 03, 2012
Monday, April 02, 2012
Sunrise at the Dock
20" x 19"
When looking at Turner's work, the first thing I thought of was using Angelina fiber, and it shows in the rising sun, the reflection in the water and the clouds in the sky. The dock is a wood-grain fabric in pink, and I put a couple crates on it, with some rocky fabric behind the boxes and across the channel. These were all a bit too dark for my liking, and I used decolorant to bleach them to a lighter shade, which gave the boxes a weathered look. I decided not to use the decolorant on the border pieces of the rocky fabric to pull that forward a bit.
The piece is mounted on foam core, and it was at the stage of sewing it down that I noticed the big box extends a bit beyond the dock!
Your comments are welcome!
Poppies in the Moonlight
Another challenge finished! I finished the quilting on this and it will be framed for my daughter. Only one more to go.
This piece began as fabric which I had ice dyed. In looking at it my eyes piced out the poppie shapes immediately and I decided to make them the focal point. I first stitched/quilted around them and the light green areas in the fabric. After that was done, I used fabric paint to highlight the shapes and to darken the blue areas so that the poppies and green areas would come forward. I am in the process of doing denser quilting in the blue areas and will add some beadwork when the quilting is complete. Then I will mount it on a canvas.
Louise Page
Sunday, April 01, 2012
nature at peace
When doing a general dying of some fabric one piece came out looking to me like a swamp so I decided to take advantage of it and make it into a wall quilt. With stitching, roving, rawedge applique, and decolorant for the birds I brought it to life. The sun shining through the trees is stitched in hologram thread and is very shiny but doesn't show in the photo.
This piece measures 36x42.
Pat Havey
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