This week brought news that both of my submissions for Regeneration: Contemporary Quilt Textiles 2012 have been selected. This is a curated, themed exhibition and applicants were required to submit concept designs including sketches and other supporting materials. According to the curator’s statement “Regeneration’ will feature the use of “individual display boxes for each work […]
Technique:Design
Grayscale
Now that the Sydney Quilt Show is over, it’s time to make a start on my piece for the Gray Twelve by Twelve Colourplay Challenge. Looking through my completed works, I have found several pieces where I have used gray as a neutral but nothing where I have worked entirely in gray. It is instructive […]
Searching for Colour
While Google Images and Bing Imageseach have a search function to help you find images with a specific colour, and there are several sites that enable you to create a palette from an image, I’ve come across another site that enables you to search the Flickr Creative Commons archives for images using a customised palette. […]
Humbled by Value
When I took a workshop with Nancy Crow in 2006, she remarked that she is constantly humbled by value (meaning the degree of lightness or darkness of colour in a design context not monetary value). I’ve been humbled by value too as I work with the “Eggplant” palette of “deep purple, burgundy red and dark […]
Quilt Commission: Design & Piecing
Last month I met with a client to audition some quilts for her new office space (see my audition photos). She was particularly interested in Desire Lines#5: After the Rain, but it was the wrong size and shape for the available wall area. I mocked up a design variation on Photoshop and received approval to […]
Creative Fire
The good news is that a week or so out from the next Twelve by Twelve Colourplay reveal day, I have at least one piece completed. Just the same, every time I walk into my studio, I see this shibori with the Kilauea palette on my design wall and I keep thinking I should do […]