tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61012525724189194512024-03-07T03:34:00.370+00:00LATITUDE QUILTSJulia in NZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03241704887064002808noreply@blogger.comBlogger251125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6101252572418919451.post-89049203301510974582018-06-14T22:06:00.002+01:002018-06-14T22:06:34.005+01:00Update on Latitude Blog, 2018As moderator, I have deleted all those posts where pictures were replaced with exclamation marks. This is most likely because the artists in those posts removed all public viewing of their work.<br />
This also happened to theme pages after the first two years, for what reason I cannot tell.<br />
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I have also deleted personal information from members who had left the group before its final year.<br />
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Almost all the works made for challenges in the 4 years the group existed are visible in the blog posts themselves. Just keep clicking on older posts to read about the works.<br />
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It has been enjoyable to revisit those works this morning, and observe the styles and developments of the artists.Julia in NZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03241704887064002808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6101252572418919451.post-14519261317618722772016-01-26T14:28:00.001+00:002016-01-26T14:28:15.293+00:00Ben's House<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This quilt has taken a while to complete, the final design was intended to be a compilation of the previous three quilts. It also had to be a simpler version of Ad Parnassus Edinburg. I thought then that I had stripped away as much as possible, turns out things can always be simplified further.</div>
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Family bereavement left me unable to work on the quilt and once I returned home the design was reworked to add the window. The beginnings of the quilting were removed and a different quilting pattern more in line with the other three quilts was chosen. During the completion of the quilt we said goodbye to my 15 year old Border Collie hence the name.</div>
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The gold window reflects the sun"s light, also reminding me of the light in our loved ones eyes, here it will never go out but always shine</div>
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The quilt is faced and worked on commercial cotton with hand dyed fabric for the house, painted metallic fabric for the window and DMC embroidery thread for the sun.</div>
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There are a lot of ways to show city: you can use many colors, shapes, shadows... But this time I decided to try different way for me and use mostly simple lines. </div>
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Lyudmila Yanchenkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05192554912679674796noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6101252572418919451.post-25086794869268071312015-11-30T04:30:00.000+00:002015-11-30T10:11:09.696+00:00Pasture management systems no.1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This naive style landscape explores the use of fences to subdivide pasture land. Pasture management is in my farming background, partly from having owned a sheep and cattle farm, and partly because I used to teach it at part time courses for an agricultural college. This is what is called an extensive system, where animals, let us imagine sheep and cattle or sheep and goats, live in the same field all the time, but each field only has a small number of animals. Its advantages are that there is less movement and therefore less stress on the animals, and the water supply can be rationalised. It is the least labour intensive method, and a system that has been around for hundreds of years. The disadvantages are that the grass is not utilised to its maximum, as some will be trampled and not eaten, animals can pick out the tastier grasses and leave the ones they don't like, and parasites will be more difficult to manage.<br />
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But enough of that! This is not really what I wanted to make for my final challenge, which is a detailed portrait of some refugee women and children in a camp in Pakistan. A fence is in the foreground. It will take me at least another month, though I have done all the preparation. I was just too busy at work to have the time. <br />
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This second choice combines elements from the first one in the fences series (green) with elements from the art deco one. It intrigues me that we can assemble a limited number of 'marks' and shapes, and yet we find them convincing as a landscape.<br />
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<br />Julia in NZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03241704887064002808noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6101252572418919451.post-9322994111503461292015-11-30T02:00:00.000+00:002015-11-30T02:00:02.882+00:00Ashmead's Kernal<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As the challenge for this piece is 'Reflection' I decided to play with the Reflection Effects in the software. There are so many variables to try that in the end I just rolled the dice until I came up with several pictures that I liked. Then I just chose my two favourites and added a Distortion Ripple Effect to the lower one. Examples below...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once I had settled on the final two background pictures I superimposed my apples over them and I printed them out on TAP and ironed this onto white cotton. It is difficult to make the joins disappear and I used watercolour pencils to try and hide any small gaps. </span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The piece was then ironed onto felt with mistyfuse and quilted with YLI machine quilting cotton in Dusk.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02071790395973919555noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6101252572418919451.post-12155901811639003922015-11-30T01:00:00.000+00:002015-11-30T01:00:02.575+00:00Eukalyptus Leaves Quilt - WALK OVER!<br />
This time I have not been able to make the 4:th Eucalyptus Leaves Quilt. I really have tried hard and a lot, but all my ideas and samples were not good enough, so I have to make a "walk over" this time.<br />
The other day I got round to reading this phrase "The iterative process - reworking, reworking and reworking again - learning something more each time, giving innovations a chance to emerge - and through failures, building resilience". I hope to be able to come back with my final Leaves Quilt another day! Instead of pushing myself to make the quilt in time I got hooked on something else. In October I viseted Ancient Messene in Peloponnesos in Greece.<br />
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(Wikepedia)<br />
Most of the area of Ancient Messene contains the ruins of the large classical city-state of Messene refounded by Epaminondas in 369 BC. This Messene, is today´s Ancient Messene. Currently the substantial ruins are a major historical attraction. Much of it has been archaeologically excavated and partly restored or preserved for study and public viewing, as well as for various events. The site was never totally abandoned"<br />
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Below are some photos from this beautiful place.<br />
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fingers in an anticlockwise direction and then work buttonhole stitches with a tapestry needle left to right (if you are right-handed) over
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Ann-Marihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08891793186615413400noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6101252572418919451.post-81655276205372724262015-10-23T23:33:00.001+01:002015-10-28T18:27:53.115+00:00Where are they now?I thought I would try to find out what all our former members are doing now. Some left quite early on to pursue their artistic endeavours elsewhere. Some stayed the first 2 years, and then moved on.<br />
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This is my summary, but if any of you former members want to write something personal about your art, or if anyone knows about the people I can't find at the moment, please update us.<br />
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It was fun to share part of the Latitude journey with them.<br />
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I think we could easily
identify Katie's work here. Katie Pigeon -
<a href="https://www.canadianquilter.com/photo-gallery/trend-tex-quilters-challenge.php?year=2014">https://www.canadianquilter.com/photo-gallery/trend-tex-quilters-challenge.php?year=2014</a></div>
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Meta is working with
metal and electroplating fabric. Meta Heemskerk –
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Linden's detailed and
careful work is being exhibited in Australia and with a travelling
SAQA exhibition. Linden Lancaster -
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<a href="http://www.lindenlancaster.com/">www.lindenlancaster.com</a></div>
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Heidi is still mainly
working with her yarns and fibres. Heidi Wulfraat -
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thewoolworks.blogspot.com</div>
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Janice Stevens is
exhibiting with SAQA.
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<a href="http://www.janicestevensquilts.com/">Www.Janicestevensquilts.com</a></div>
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Gurli Gregersen has
changed her focus to photography recently.</div>
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Gurligregersen.com</div>
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Judy Haas, I can't find
any links to.</div>
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Pamela Priday is doing
a lot of experimental dyeing with plants</div>
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<a href="https://craftyquilting.wordpress.com/">https://craftyquilting.wordpress.com</a></div>
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Deborah Wirsu. Deborah
had developed a weekly video tutorial in aspects of FMQ and thread
sketching. This is a fabulous resource freely available.</div>
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<a href="http://www.deborahwirsu.com/">Www.deborahwirsu.com</a></div>
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Amanda Sievers – not
sure what she is up to or where. Margy and Nicole might know more
than me.</div>
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Vivien Zepf – Vivien
is working on curating and print making.
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Sevenpinesdesigns.blogspot.com</div>
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Gabriele Bach is the contact for a German quilt group </div>
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<a href="http://www.groebenzeller-quiltgruppe.de/">http://www.groebenzeller-quiltgruppe.de/</a>., which also has a Fb page.<br />
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Sabine also, haven't
heard about for a while.
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Julia</div>
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Julia in NZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03241704887064002808noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6101252572418919451.post-59486026603119695042015-09-01T18:37:00.000+01:002015-09-06T03:44:17.482+01:00Gradus ad Edinburgh<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My extreme quilt was based on a photo of the Edinburgh skyline. It was inspired by a study of Paul Klee's Ad Parnassum in which he successfully abstracts the shape of the building and infuses it with detailed colour. This was combined with work done for a class with Lisa Call looking at repetition in rhythm and flow. The exercises were completed with a view to creating a design that could be used for this quilt. Two designs were created, one using extreme colour and the other using line and extreme lack of colour.<br />
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The background is the cap from a red/green bucket exchange dye, there is no way of telling what will be created with these caps. It was added to the bucket about half an hour after the first fabrics were immersed and is a silk noile. The colour shows subtle shifts from green to red, the perfect texture and colour for walls. The black lines are created using a variety of threads from a black Oliver Twist thread pack. Stitched with 50 weight thread and backed with hand dyed fabric from the same bucket. It is faced, a new technique for me and one which I like and may use for Edinburgh Sunset<br />
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As we come to the close of our 3rd year's journey together, we can reflect on how far we have come. I think we can see how much we have developed since some of us started with the Carnival challenge. We have played with new techniques, adopted some, rejected others, and narrowed our focus.<br />
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For the final quilt in the series - and it may be the final quilt we do together, we need to talk about that - we should include something that involves the idea of the essence of our theme. I am always impressed by Picasso's works on The bull. It is amazing how he distills the essence from a tonal drawing to a few curved lines. </div>
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Consider the essential elements of your theme and show them in your work. It could be like this Picasso series of drawings, going minimalist. But if you prefer to show more detail instead of less, that is OK too. This is your opportunity to draw on the previous 3 quilts in your series and work on an aspect that you particularly like about your subject.<br />
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Julia in NZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03241704887064002808noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6101252572418919451.post-18307720724682082042015-08-31T05:36:00.001+01:002015-09-06T03:49:53.813+01:00Sun, rain and mudflow<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">This summer in our city was the hottest for the last 135 years. </span></i><i><span style="font-size: large;">The average temperature was +38 C. Sometimes it was unusual rain with hail and the size of it was as cherry. Besides that it was several big mudflows at the mountains and some of it reached the city. Fortunately nobody was killed. Some houses and cars were ruined.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></div>
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Lyudmila Yanchenkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05192554912679674796noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6101252572418919451.post-43790112304518919752015-08-31T02:00:00.000+01:002015-08-31T02:00:00.932+01:00Pineapple Emerging<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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the aim of producing something very bright and rather abstract. I eventually settled
on a very simplified design of a pineapple set against a background of kiwi
fruit cross sections. I love fresh pineapple, but am allergic to it and get a
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on my last quilt, but I have never used it for a whole quilt and I have never
had to match and join sections of a picture onto fabric. It’s quite difficult and
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background in a light colour to knock it back and make the pineapple pop out,
but this did not work as effectively as I had hoped. To rectify this I had to
reinforce the stitched black outline of the pineapple with a black pen and then
go over the background with a pearl-white Markal stick. If I'd had time to
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Our challenge Extreme combined with my personal one, Tulips could give many solutions. But tulips tends to grow very long stems even after they have been put in a vase, so I decided to focus on that. My tulips have extremely long stems compared to the heads. I also wanted the stems to weave together, not standing straight, and as I drew them, they suddenly became brother at the bottom.<br />
For once, I also wanted to work with golden foil - so golden tulips. But I needed a focal-point, so I put in one tulip, bowing down to the viewer.<br />
This done in my sketchbook, I had to figure out how to interpret this in fabric. I decided to quilt the whole piece first, then paint in the stems with fabric paint, glue and foil for the heads. The big one was red fabric bonded on before the gold foil was put on. And a little quilt finish just as a hint. I have not tried to make realistic tulips, just a suggestion.<br />
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<br />Gretahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16703318244130074266noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6101252572418919451.post-2427228375249177272015-08-31T01:00:00.001+01:002015-09-06T03:41:57.000+01:00Falling Leaves<br />
<b>FALLING LEAVES</b><br />
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This quilt is the third in a series that will consist of four or perhaps more quilts with the theme LEAVES.<br />
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The challenge this time was EXTREME.<br />
At first I thought of heavy embellishment with lots beads and embroidery, but finally I come to think of some design guidelines.<br />
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<i style="font-weight: bold;">Simplify, Exaggerate and Repeat. </i>For example, simplify your images, exaggerate the contrast, repeat images, colors and similar shapes and lines.<br />
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The inspiration photo is the foliage of an eucalyptus tree. See below.<br />
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I have tried to simplify the image, exaggerate the contrast with just a few colors with high contrast among them, repeated the colors and repeated similar shapes.</div>
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Although I am not sure that this quilt can be called Extreme, perhaps only by comparison with my two first "Leaf Quilts".</div>
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Ann-Marihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08891793186615413400noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6101252572418919451.post-56726948640574007332015-08-31T01:00:00.000+01:002015-08-31T01:00:00.238+01:00Dawn patrolMy ideas for extreme fencing settled on the most unfriendly fencing you can get, razor wire. I was able to get a few source photos to give me ideas, and this one had a strong idea of Notan, so I used dark wire on the light half of the background and light wire on the dark half. I wasn't sure if the quantity of wire would seem overwhelming, but it turned out fine.<br />
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I played with the idea of just having an abstract based on the coils of wire, but it seemed to need a context. I made up a silhouette of a soldier, but I didn't want him to look threatening, so I put the gun onto his back. The metallic black thread really catches the light, which you can see in the close up.<br />
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The background fabric was painted with thickened dyes, as illustrated by Laura Kemshall in a recent DMTV show. <br />
After I had completed the barbs, which took many hours, I felt the lack of colour made it seem more dismal than I intended, so I added a turquoise thread inside the border, and some Inktense pencils gave me the dawn glow.<br />
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Without this challenge idea, I would not have thought of this interpretation of fencing, as it seemed initially very negative. However, I am really pleased with how it turned out.Julia in NZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03241704887064002808noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6101252572418919451.post-69083993101414915372015-06-25T13:13:00.001+01:002015-06-25T13:53:49.036+01:00New Challenge- ExtremeThroughout the history of art, artists have pushed themselves to step outside of the accepted forms. We see this in textiles, paint and sculptures, every area where there is creativity. The natural progression is to learn the "rules", the techniques and skills, use them until they are comfortable and old and then step out of that comfort zone.<br />
Ask what if?<br />
How much can I change things?<br />
What is the most extreme form I can create and still have something I want to make and will be happy to have made?<br />
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Georgia O'Keeffe pushed the limits of size.<br />
Amongst other artists who stepped out into new areas are <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/malevich-dynamic-suprematism-t02319" target="_blank">Kazimir Malevich</a>, <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/klee-theyre-biting-n05658" target="_blank">Paul Klee</a>, <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/miro-painting-t01318" target="_blank">Joan Miro</a>, <a href="http://www.richarddiebenkorn.net/paintings/diebenkorn_ocean_park_paintings.htm#.VYvkzGDXmi4" target="_blank">Richard Diebenkorn</a>, <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/pollock-number-23-t00384" target="_blank">Jackson Pollock</a>, and perhaps my least favourite artist <a href="http://moca.org/pc/viewArtWork.php?id=34" target="_blank">Willem deKooning</a>. All challenge us in one way or another and make us restless with the work we make.<br />
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Quilters and textile workers also love to push boundaries and work on concepts. Who are your sources of inspiration? <a href="http://butdoesitfloat.com/filter/Huguette-Caland" target="_blank">Huguette Caland</a> challenges me with her lines and dots- repetition<br />
<a href="http://www.glorialoughman.com/gallery.htm" target="_blank">Gloria Loughman</a> with her colours and the intricate details of her landscapes.<br />
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What will you choose:<br />
work with only one design element, line, colour, value etc<br />
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The choice is yours. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17166235179688138593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6101252572418919451.post-82608669210697822302015-06-02T12:49:00.000+01:002015-06-02T14:22:01.187+01:00City flowerbeds and oriental tiles<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I live in a very green city with a lot of flowerbeds and at
the same time we have many building with oriental tiles and I decided to
combine these two beauties in one quilt.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Lyudmila Yanchenkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05192554912679674796noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6101252572418919451.post-58949201384525543982015-05-31T02:00:00.000+01:002015-05-31T02:00:00.081+01:00Rosehip Seeds<h2 style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wanted to produce something in the American Art Deco style
for this challenge. My original idea was to design a seed packet which fits in
with my theme of fruits and seeds quite nicely. As I progressed though, it
seems to have metamorphosed into a poster.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I created the final design in PaintShop Photo Pro X3 using
vector graphics and then used this as a template for the piecing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The rosehip was made separately using a reverse appliqué method
and then attached to the background as a whole.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All the fabric except the black is hand dyed by me as per Helen
Deighan’s method for graduated effects from her book Dyeing in Plastic Bags. <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 15.3999996185303px; line-height: 21.5599994659424px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The lettering was achieved by printing onto Artist Transfer
Paper (ATP) and ironing this on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I decided not to do lots of free machine embroidery on this
piece as I wanted to keep it clean and simple.</span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02071790395973919555noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6101252572418919451.post-61949896862375626242015-05-31T01:00:00.001+01:002015-06-02T09:54:14.374+01:00Leaves á la Art Deco<br />
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The theme I have chosen for this year´s 4 quilts, is leaves. The challenge this time was Art Deco. After some research about Art Deco I have tried to interpret this challenge by using strong colors and stained-glass, which resulted in these 3 geometric, colorful, abstract, eucalyptus leaves and its seeds on a background with rectangular forms surrounded with black strips.<br />
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The black lines in the background are bias strips. The background is pieced and the leaves are appliquéd as well as raw edge appliquéd. The piece is machine quilted and some hand quilting is made on the light grey background pieces to obtain some texture.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Ann-Marihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08891793186615413400noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6101252572418919451.post-74305532537112652652015-05-31T01:00:00.000+01:002015-05-31T01:00:06.434+01:00Crossing the lineI really like Art Deco - one of my assessment quilts for the City and Guilds was based on 1930s stained glass windows. To accommodate my theme of the year, fences, I checked out a lot of Art Deco inspired railings, bannisters and fences, but most of them relied heavily on symmetry. Somehow, they weren't going to express anything I felt in tune with. So I turned to travel posters, which have that graphic quality I am frequently drawn to explore.<br />
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This worked much better. I found an art deco style font, called Kaikoura. This was especially apt, as the town of Kaikoura is only about 2 hours drive from me. Kai means food, and koura means crayfish. The ocean is particularly deep, with the Hikurangi Trench just off shore. This brings a lot of seafood to the area, crayfish (a kind of lobster), paua (abalone) and other fish, which attract seals, dolphins, whales and orca. Kaikoura is a whale-watching town, with boats and planes going out any time the weather is good enough. It is also unusual in having mountains coming right down almost to the sea.<br />
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But Kaikoura also has a race course, which I think only has one race a year. I took a liberty here, as the racing in Kaikoura is harness racing, not gallops. But I like the simpler outlines of the horses and jockeys. Here I could incorporate my fences in an art deco setting. I was happy!<br />
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<br />Julia in NZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03241704887064002808noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6101252572418919451.post-30068669882902154202015-05-31T00:00:00.001+01:002015-05-31T00:00:01.219+01:00Yellow TulipsTulips are such elegant flowers, simple in shapes and in so many wonderful colours. And since Art Deco is very simplified, it was a perfect match for my personal challenge, tulips. Looking through images from my garden, I settled on the one I used in an earlier challenge, LOVE, and used it as a template for raw edge applique, with hand dyed cotton. <br />
As a background, I used something that reminded me of radioes from the 1930s, freehand cut and pieced commersial fabrics, on top of pale green linen.<br />
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<br />Gretahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16703318244130074266noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6101252572418919451.post-78076280723300634602015-05-31T00:00:00.000+01:002015-05-31T10:25:13.163+01:00100 King Street<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It was interesting to compare the Art Deco movement in the UK with that in America where buildings sweep into the sky with great power and confidence in the future. Buildings in the UK seem to sprawl, there is a gentler feeling they settle into the landscape and don't challenge or dominate the history and environment around them.<br />
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Posters from this time follow the trend, images soar upwards using perspective to enhance that feeling and express confidence and the promise of the future, colours tend to be limited and lines are clean in their design, and that was what I wanted to capture in my piece.<br />
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100 King Street was designed by Edwin Lutyens in 1928 for Midland Bank and was constructed in 1933-35. It is classified as either Art Deco or Modernist Classical depending on the reference site. At four stories high this building reaches up from the four roads that surround it. The lovely angles gave me the opportunity to once again play with perspective, this time using 3 point, and exaggerate that height. This time looking looking inwards through the windows I filled the building with silver and gold a nod to the wealth and lights burning brightly as people go about their business. <br />
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Materials used: Commercial fabric customised with Inktense pencils, blocks and fabric paints, metallic voile, netting, screen print, machine appliqué and quilting<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17166235179688138593noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6101252572418919451.post-25108120075960964382015-04-06T03:25:00.000+01:002015-04-06T03:25:44.603+01:00Working in a Series, some thoughtsSome of our members have done classes with respected teachers on working in a series. It is generally accepted that this way of working will help any artist to uncover elements that have personal meaning, which will in turn produce a body of work that has artistic integrity.<br />
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I came across an artist recently whose paintings could easily have been expressed in fabric and stitch.<br />
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Valeriane Leblond is of French/Quebec origin and now lives in Wales. Her paintings are often oil on various wooden substrates. She has been exploring her adopted homeland since 2007. Her landscapes have a fresh charm, and encapsulate the essential features of Welsh rural and coastal life.<br />
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The way she works illustrates how we can explore a subject by using different scales, colour palettes, horizon lines and all the design elements, such as rhythm, repetition, harmony, that we read about in our Art and Design manuals and course notes.<br />
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I will give the works their English titles, as the original titles are in Welsh. When I look at these paintings I can so easily imagine the quilting lines, hand stitching and textures.<br />
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Notice that there are traditional quilts featured in some of her paintings - a bonus!Julia in NZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03241704887064002808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6101252572418919451.post-85367340323087183432015-03-30T18:42:00.000+01:002015-03-30T18:42:04.367+01:00Value and How to Create itValue is an interesting design tool it can create drama and mood.<br />
Dark values carry a sombre feel while light colours give a feeling of peacefulness. If you want to create a focal point, surround a light area with a dark one, it will create a frame that draws the eye like a magnet. Used in conjunction with texture, colour and line, interest can be heightened and intriguing images created. In his picture Temple Gardens, Paul Klee uses value to draw your eye around the painting.<br />
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A grey scale image makes this clear, as your eye dances around following the black shapes or the light ones.</div>
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In quilting, then, the key is finding enough pieces of fabric in your chosen colour to create the values you "need". </div>
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Edinburg Sunset, challenged my stash, and as I have 5 large boxes of fabric and odd pieces tucked here and there in drawers and on shelves because the boxes are too full, I just couldn't explain the need for more fat quarters when all that was needed was a tiny square or two. </div>
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The pencils were used to darken the fabric for the windows. To use them just colour, then brush with a barely wet paint brush and iron once dry to set the pigment (protect your work surface with a piece of paper or plastic sheet). Then the fabric can be bonded using any bonding agent of your choice. The textile paint was used to create the orange red sky fabric, foreground and windows on the dark house. A good range in value can be achieved by dilution of the paint with water (again protect your work surface), or more than one coat. Lightly sprinkling with salt while it's wet will create texture, if it is left to dry without moving. Again heat set the colour with an iron set for the fabric, in both cases I protect my iron with baking parchment. As both paint and pencils blend and mix with water, you only need a few colours to create a wide range. I would recommend this as an alternative to buying more fabric if small pieces are your passion and you enjoy a little colouring. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17166235179688138593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6101252572418919451.post-67257186096313179592015-03-13T19:56:00.002+00:002015-03-13T19:56:38.746+00:00Techniques used for Dragonfly in GreenNicole asked me to explain in more depth how I got my original image for my last piece, so here goes.<br />
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The original image came from a gelli block print on white cotton fabric. I printed the dragonfly on plain copy paper, cut around the edges and then placed it on the pre-dye/print pasted gelli block. I then took the end of a small paint brush and drew around the lines of the image. I peeled the paper away and transferred the image to the white cotton.<br />
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Once dry, I ironed and scanned the fabric. I tend to do this with a lot of the fabric I produce so that I can then use the image multiple times to either print onto fabric using the printer or to manipulate on the computer and then print or use as an image transfer before cutting the original fabric. <br />
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After scanning, I manipulated this image on my computer using Paint Shop Pro 7. I did several manipulations until I was happy with this one.<br />
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For 'Dragonfly in Green', I used the 'ImageSplitter' application which you can find easily on the internet. I sized the image and then split the image into 6 x A4 sheets which I printed on my laser printer. I then transferred the image using Amsterdam Matte Medium onto white sheer polyester.<br />
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Once dry, you soak and then rub off the excess paper from the back, and voila, you have your image to quilt!<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02478184261869826741noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6101252572418919451.post-724613990837606682015-03-05T15:14:00.001+00:002015-03-05T15:16:38.999+00:00Edinburgh Sunset<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I chose buildings as my theme for the year and Through The Window for the series title Buildings are endlessly fascinating with all their variations and yet they all have the same basic features, roofs, windows, walls etc. They have a multitude of different purposes and we decorate them with ingenuity to make them stand out or blend in. The one thing they all have in common is people. What goes on behind those windows,when we are inside do we learn, rest, dream or search for something new? What is going through the minds of the people on the outside, where are they hurrying to? Life is constantly fascinating.<br />
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For this challenge the image came from a view through a window in Edinburgh. I recently took a design class and wanted to use the lessons to take my art into a more informed place so value, colour, line, shape and figure / ground were considered. Cubism was the influence for the style, particularly the work of Oscar Bleumner. The colour scheme is a split complementary using yellow green and blue green with red orange and red purple. Unfortunately the dark green blue reads as blue against the other greens on screen something to do with the light possibly.<br />
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Materials used are, fabric paint and Intense crayons on commercial and hand dyed cottons, Bondaweb and a variety of threads. Raw edge appliqué with machine quilting is the method of construction. The quilt is not quite finished as a hand injury prevents the use of a cutting ruler, hand sewing and very controlled stitching. It will be bound with a 1/4 inch black binding once I can complete it. Completed quilt will be 15.5 x 24 inches.<br />
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