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I worked through some of the colour and composition exercises in Sandra Meech's book "Contemporary Quilts, Design, Surface and Stitch"
Pages from sketchbook
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I focused in on a narrow portion from the postcard and cut it into a thin strip. Then I looked at the colours and amounts of colour in the strip and I painted the stripes on water colour card
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The colours I will use:
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Colours left in my palette
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Copying the colours in the painted strip above I made a yarn wrapping. Wrapping yarns round a strip of card helps to see colours, proportions and also helps to focus on textures. I made a similar colour strip using torn magazine pages
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Yarn wrap detail
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This exercise was looking more at composition and arrangement of colours - I used more torn magazine strips and wove them into this pattern
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5 comments:
Wow!!! Those colours really zing!!!! Cant wait to see what you do next.
Really interesting to follow your process, Carolyn. The colours are lovely and bright. I have launched myself straight into a project today when I know full well I should have followed your good example and gone through these steps first!
Hi Julie, I had to show the design process for college and filled a sketchbook with samples. I actually really enjoy the process because working on the samples I always think of new things to try as I go along. One thing inspires another ...
I have this book and have done this process before but I really should do it more often.
You have chosen a great card with fantastic colours to interpret.
I follow this design process too and really enjoy it. Its a great book isn't it. I really love the colours you have used and I love to follow your blog.
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