Art Every Day, Friday February 1, 2013
Good Morning,
Oh how I love color. But I love neutrals too! Yesterday's piece was so warm and mysterious. Today's piece is bold and in your face. I just love how white; pure light, is able to trump color, all of the glorious color that is in this piece can't hold a candle to the bright white of the stitched swirls. I did all that I could to make the variety of colors in the background stay in the background, mostly by stitching it down in just one, dark dull color in an all over design. I just love it when my experiments work and with the exception of the three small swirls in a row on the lower portion of the piece, I kinda like it.
Till tomorrow,
Heather
P.S. a shout out to both Christa and Steph as well as the rest of you who comment - thank you from me and a lot of my students who appreciate your discussions on the pieces - can't thank you enough!
1 comment:
I am very appreciative of your experiments because every time you prove or disprove a thought or a theory, we all learn :)
As I have been learning about color and design, I find that I learn best by seeing and doing. Seeing these pieces every day is teaching me so much more than I would ever get from a book- or many books.
I typically look at your work and read through your post a couple of times. Then I enlarge the photo so I can see the detail and look at it while I write my comment.
I would never have thought that most of these bright colors could be pushed to the background enough to let those swirlies dance on the top!
I see how the all over, heavy quilting in the background- and with a dull color rather than a matching bright one- makes the colors more unified and tones the colors just slightly.
Your thread painting/swirly shapes look like paint or chalk, I just adore how it looks. Mostly solid, but with those bits of background showing through here and there.
This piece is just sheer happiness!
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