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Visual Guide to Working in a Series: Next Steps in Inspired Design - Gallery of 200+ Art Quilts
This inspiring guide from art quilter Elizabeth Barton is for quilt artists who have mastered the basics and want to explore deeper levels of creativity and skill. Learn how making a series of quilts can help you generate more ideas, find new subtleties in favorite subjects, and build a body of work for shows. Creative exercises help you develop your own themes and techniques. Includes a huge gallery of more than 200 examples from Elizabeth and other working art quilters. Packed with hands-on lessons and examples, this book will transform your work and enlarge your creative vision forever.
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112 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 2013
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July 25, 2019
So this book was definitely written for 60 year old amateur quilters, but carried the assumption that the reader had quilted quite a bit. (But yet somehow does not know basic design elements or have a body of work.)
It started off discussing series then went off and started describing the basic design stuff for the rest of the book. (And here I was excited too after seeing the black and white quilts - the strongest of the lot.)
I know it's for older folks because a millennial would not need a chapter on manipulating images digitally. And yet this knowledge was handed out like it was a precious gem. I don't mean to be overly negative, but I was irritated by the author's offhand comment about the "mocking critique from the local art professor." Obviously, the author can't take a critique. Her work could use some.
I was irritated too at the "rules" she set out for color and composition when her work doesn't follow them at all. While the pictures are good quality, the quilts themselves run the viewer over with color. The compositions are usually all over the place and far too busy to keep the eye from glancing off.
And one more comment: Can Western textile artists please oh please stop treating Japanese textiles like they're some great exotic thing? Really "In Japanese culture, this quality is much revered and sought after." Japanese people aren't peasants clutching at a few swatches of handmade fabric. People here like their store-bought stuff just like the West does.
The way you use language matters.
Also, the shibori arashi quilts were the worst of the bunch. Far too much, all over.
It started off discussing series then went off and started describing the basic design stuff for the rest of the book. (And here I was excited too after seeing the black and white quilts - the strongest of the lot.)
I know it's for older folks because a millennial would not need a chapter on manipulating images digitally. And yet this knowledge was handed out like it was a precious gem. I don't mean to be overly negative, but I was irritated by the author's offhand comment about the "mocking critique from the local art professor." Obviously, the author can't take a critique. Her work could use some.
I was irritated too at the "rules" she set out for color and composition when her work doesn't follow them at all. While the pictures are good quality, the quilts themselves run the viewer over with color. The compositions are usually all over the place and far too busy to keep the eye from glancing off.
And one more comment: Can Western textile artists please oh please stop treating Japanese textiles like they're some great exotic thing? Really "In Japanese culture, this quality is much revered and sought after." Japanese people aren't peasants clutching at a few swatches of handmade fabric. People here like their store-bought stuff just like the West does.
The way you use language matters.
Also, the shibori arashi quilts were the worst of the bunch. Far too much, all over.
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