workshop 1
Posted: Saturday, 11 August 2007 |
I had not been too any workshops for a long time and just felt like I would like to attend one or two or three….
So when booking and arranging to go to the Loch Lomond quilt show I decide to book a workshop, there were two that interested me but one was on Saturday when I was travelling to Mull so it was now one, Visual Music with , I love the bright clear colours Alicia uses in her quilts and wanted to encourage myself to try some bright colour, the inspiration for the workshop was artists Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Robert and Sonia Delaunay, all who were influenced by music, I looked through my inspiration postcard collection and found Windows Opening Simultaneously, there are several paintings in this series so I found photos of several and took them with me,
After an introduction Alicia wanted us to chose a painting and reproduce a likeness in fabric, now this I can not do as I do not want to reproduce someone else’s work, so I took a good look at the photos I had brought then put them away and started my own version of Windows Opening Simultaneously, this is the fabric result before stitching, on the left is how the piece looked at the end of the workshop (photo not good as taken in artifical light) and on the right is how it looks now, you can not tell in the photo but many of the curved shapes are in opaque fabrics and lace so the under colour shows a little, I have been busy on other things but now hope to do some work on it soon,
In the afternoon we had another project to start which I found much easier and freer, we had to take a plain background and then cut abstract shapes from brightly coloured fabrics and arrange them on the background, I had brought with me some gorgeous fabric sent to me by my blogging friend , (take a look at Sonji’s Art she does some amazing Art Quilts)
infact I enjoyed it so much that that evening back at the Loch Lomond youth hostel where I was staying I found the laundry room with iron and board and continued, I want to start stitching these soon too,
So when booking and arranging to go to the Loch Lomond quilt show I decide to book a workshop, there were two that interested me but one was on Saturday when I was travelling to Mull so it was now one, Visual Music with , I love the bright clear colours Alicia uses in her quilts and wanted to encourage myself to try some bright colour, the inspiration for the workshop was artists Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Robert and Sonia Delaunay, all who were influenced by music, I looked through my inspiration postcard collection and found Windows Opening Simultaneously, there are several paintings in this series so I found photos of several and took them with me,
After an introduction Alicia wanted us to chose a painting and reproduce a likeness in fabric, now this I can not do as I do not want to reproduce someone else’s work, so I took a good look at the photos I had brought then put them away and started my own version of Windows Opening Simultaneously, this is the fabric result before stitching, on the left is how the piece looked at the end of the workshop (photo not good as taken in artifical light) and on the right is how it looks now, you can not tell in the photo but many of the curved shapes are in opaque fabrics and lace so the under colour shows a little, I have been busy on other things but now hope to do some work on it soon,
In the afternoon we had another project to start which I found much easier and freer, we had to take a plain background and then cut abstract shapes from brightly coloured fabrics and arrange them on the background, I had brought with me some gorgeous fabric sent to me by my blogging friend , (take a look at Sonji’s Art she does some amazing Art Quilts)
infact I enjoyed it so much that that evening back at the Loch Lomond youth hostel where I was staying I found the laundry room with iron and board and continued, I want to start stitching these soon too,
Comments
Obviously an inspirational workshop IT. Female Parental Unit once had an exhibition of fabric scrolls inspired by the work of Hong Kong artist Liu Guo Song. I would love to be able to direct you to a site showing his work, but there does not seem to be a single one. He gets a mention on an American site, but no illustrations, and Hong Kong Art Gallery seem to have airbrushed his name from the list of exhibitors, nor do they have illustrations. I wish I could show you the book...
Flying Cat from excess baggage
These are going to be absolutely fantastic when stitched! They are wonderful already!
Conni Jenkins from http://www.thescoopscoreanddeal.blogspot.com
Very imaginative and attractive, IT. # FC: fabric scrolls by fpu, eh? Maybe a blog posting on it might be indicated?
mjc from NM,USA
We don't like to show off...*modest downwards sideways glance like Di*
Flying Cat from stitching&sewing
...SORRY SORRY SORRY!!! That wasn't meant to suggest that IT is showing off...
Flying Cat from infearandtrembling
Thank you for all the nice comments sorry to be so long replying but I have been on the mainland at the Festival of Quilts, NEC Birmingham, I love the quilts and meeting people but the traffic and rain ugh, it's sooooo nice to be home,
island threads from lewis
no offence taken Fc and anyone one that knows Cats knows that modesty it not a natural trait but Fpu must be shy/modest as there is not an Fpu blog on IB, I will look out for Liu Gup Song's work, I would love to see some of Fpu's work can't you sneak some photo's when fpu is out or something, ofcourse we all respect that eeF Cee's Art in the Garden is the crème de la crème,
island threads from lewis
thanks Conni I really enjoyed creating them and want to find time to start stitching them,
island threads from lewis
thanks mjc and I agree fc has got to do a post on fpu's scrolls,
island threads from lewis
Cool!
Nicolaon from Cotuqanaca
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