Congratulation to Jill Sullivan for winning 2nd place in excellence in wearable art at the Quilt Canada National Juried Show. She won thread from Robinsons Thread.

Four Ladies of Color

I tried this exercise with faces; I started by making a pattern so that each face would have the same shapes in it, but i couldn't do that easily with the features, so they were all cut freehand, but I made an effort to get them fairly similar in size and shape.  Also, I decided to use the same basic skin color for all four because i thought it would allow the color combinations to be more effective.  I don't know whether that's true, though.

I began with the complementary colors, blue-green and red-orange.  All the fabrics are ordinary cottons, except for the aqua scarf, which is transluscent silk.   Her mouth is clearly differently shaped than the other three and is also placed a little higher in her face, which gives her a different expression than the others, unfortunately.  She looks kind of pouty while the others look more melancholy.  The hat jewel and the scarf jewel are copper metallic thread.

Note that you can click on the picture to get a bigger version if you want one.

Second was a single color and its variations.  Lots of red and pink in my stash, but precious little red with black..ie, the darker shades of red.  Also, I discovered I had trouble telling dark red from a darkish brown.  In general, I'm not sure at all that I understand how to think about brown as a color.  Again, all cottons except for the silk scarf.  Also, the earrings and the hat jewel here are red foil, and the scarf jewel is pink angelina.

Third was the analogous color scheme: blue, blue violet, and violet.  Mostly  what I discovered is that I can't tell the difference between red violet and blue violet and just plain violet.  All three jewels in this one are that holoshimmer metallic thread.  And the scarf is also silk, with everything else being cotton.

 The effect of the blue hair in this one is I think a function of color: she looks much vaguer, more ghostly, or something.

Finally, was the tertiary scheme (which may not be the right name)..yellow-green, red-orange, and violet.  The scarf is silk, and the jewels are lightly sewn with metallic thread.  The yellow-green eyes were a real challenge...but if you've got them, i think purple eye-shadow is the answer.  This one is so much more lively that I would think I may have learned something, but the print in the hair and the blouse is also much wilder than in any of the other three, so it may just be that.


It may have made more sense to have used only plain colors to get the full effect of this, but I don't have that big an array of plain colors.  Finally, I don't know at all what to conclude from this exercise, although I liked doing it and I like the results.  Mostly, I think it would be a lot easier to use wilder colors in people than I usually do...

(Another construction detail: I did use chromacoal (which is like colored charcoal) to give the faces some shadowing/color, although all the features are appliqued cotton, not painted on.) judy

Two Fish

This piece was done many years ago and was shown at one the SCQuilt Guild shows. It is a Mola piece and is taken from a picture I took in Penang, Malaysia. It was on a wall in a house and the painting depicted two old (wise) men holding a fabric with the fish on it.

I liked the feel of the Ying and Yang (?) concept. Although working in balck and white was not that easy on the eyes..

Complementary Color Scheme

This is a wall quilt that was at the chemo infusion center where ed went yesterday.

What struck me about it (as I got to look at it for about 6 hours) was that its complementary colors weren't doing it any big favors .  but i couldn't figure out exactly what to do to fix it.  the circles are that asian-y fabric that has gold fish/carp on a dark blue background on it.  They're the feature, but actually they seem to me to be the bug.  But what, given the complementary scheme, do you replace them with?  dark blue, light blue, medium blue won't work, but neither will orange of any shade.  what do you to to place a third color with complementary ones?  (if i were looking at the magazine article, maybe it would tell me.  but i'm not, and i can't actually visualize something that would work.  can you???

Judy

Here is something I've been working on for years...at least 10, and I'm never sure where to go with it but keep yanking it out of the trash so I guess I do feel I should finish it...but how...any suggestions heartily welcomed.

Current Show

The photos below are from the current show we have on at One O One  in Sechelt, B.C.  The theme of this group is "Opposites."  The idea was either to do one piece each showing some kind of opposites within the one piece, or to do a pair that showed opposites of some kind.

  Jill Sullivan

  Marie Berry

Jill Sullivan

  Jill Sullivan

  Janet Tufnall

  Judy Ross, "Big and Little"

  Marie Berry

  Lesley Bing

  Charis Webb, "Opposites Attract"

  Penny Connell, "Boxes and Spring"

  Ann Dickie, "Left and Right Brain"

  Sharon Roye

  Judy Ross,  "Resignation of Age" and "Optimism of Youth"

  Janet Tufnall, 'Yin and Yang'

Janet Tufnall, 'Yin and Yang'

correct address

quiltersoutofbounds.blogspot.com

Start-Up

Thanks again to all for arranging of, cooking for and coming to today's meeting.  I really appreciated it.

Here's the blog I've set up for the group.  I put about 8 or 9 names on the list of people to write on the blog, so i think that you can just go to the blog (www.blogger.quiltersoutofbounds.com) and it will offer you a template for a new post once you've accepted the new invitation.  and there you go.  if you want to include a picture, see the bar immediately above the 'new post' where there is a little picture icon next to the 'link' icon.  click on it and it will provide you instructions for including pictures.

i'll get everybody on as authors when i figure out who i didn't put on.  judy