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| The Abstracted Collage |
Greetings from
Quilting on the Lake!! Wow!! Its been a world wind week here in Judi Blaydon's
ARTful Quilt class. I'm so glad I picked Hopper's Chop Suey for inspiration since it lent itself nicely to an abstract collage. So first we created our collages which we then made line tracings of. These were blown up into full size master patterns. From there we are reproducing the abstraction into
fabric. Its as easy as that! Or actually as
hard as that!
OMG
The Angst - The Struggle - The Blood - Sweat and TEARS!!!
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| WEDNESDAY ANGST!!!! |
Okay, so I'm being a drama queen (
big surprise), but somewhere around Wednesday, it dawn on me that this was not going to be as easy as I thought. You really needed to look at the inspirational collage to get your values and colors correct. It was hard! But as most hard things, well worth the work!! I'm happy to say by
Friday afternoon my quilt top will be done and ready to quilt!
Not only is the class going great, but my classmates are great too!! I met a reader in class -
Susan Griffin who was inspired by one of my favorite Fauva moment artist,
Andre Derain. I love her interpretation - didn't it come out great?! She wanted to use the bold colors of Derain in a straight forward direct manner tempering them with the use of a neutral. I think she was totally successful!
I'll share my finish piece next time but here is sneak preview!
So what have you been up to creatively??
6 comments:
It looks so great using Hopper as inspiration. Looking forward to seeing the finished quilt top.
This will be the first time in 14 yrs I finished my quilt top at QBL....I'll only have to quilt it!
Looking good there! I'm Staying tuned for the finish!
Abstract is so hard! I stick to the pictorials because I have no clue how to even begin to abstract. I bow to you my friend :-) love Susan's piece. Interesting to see the process.
Oh enjoy being away! I have friends that were there last week and loved the experience.
It looks like you're having a lot of fun! Looking forward to seeing your finished piece.
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