Elizabeth Barton

Visual Guide to Working in a Series

Next Steps in Inspired Design - Gallery of 200+ Art Quilts

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Deepen your quilt artistry by creating quilts in a series 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. Packed with hands-on lessons and examples, this book will transform your work and enlarge your creative vision forever. • Creative exercises help you develop your own themes and techniques • Includes huge gallery of more than 200 examples from Elizabeth and other working art quilters • Explains how working in a series elevates creativity and artistic depth Print on Demand Edition. PRINT QUALITY WILL VARY FROM ORIGINAL EDITION: PODs are printed on uncoated (non-glossy) paper and the color may appear more saturated. Information presented is the same as the most recent printed edition. Pattern pullouts (if applicable) have been separated and presented as single pages.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: C&T Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 280mm x 216mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 448g
• ISBN-13: 9781607056614
• ISBN-10: 1607056615
• Artikelnr.: 38130381

Autorenporträt

By Elizabeth Barton

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Thinking
Introduction
Definition of working in a series
Why one should work in a series
When should you work in a series
How long should a series be
Paving the way
Chapter 2: Getting to work: finding your theme
Begin by looking back
Variations on a constant
A central idea
Themeand variations
Form:a simple unit
Form:texture: arashi shibori, monoprinting
Form:line
Content:different views of the same thing
Content:nature
Content:time
Content:narrative
Choosingyour best fit
Considerthe display
Chapter 3: Getting to work: exploring the theme
How to work in a series
Sequentialor simultaneous
Decidingupon a theme
Developingparameters
Deciding on techniques
tracing
sketching in pencil
sketching in watercolor
collage
photocopying
photographing
computer software
Chapter 4: Working the Series: discovering art techniques
developingintuition
strong color schemes and the use of simultaneous contrast
value patterns (chiaroscuro, or Notan)
applying landscape composition painting guidelines to art
the illusion of depth
working from photographs, the problems thereof
the dynamic quilt
focal areas and emphasis
underlying structural patterns
positive and negative space
visual pathways
shibui, the power of the mark of the hand
Chapter 5: Showing Your Work
Qualities to Strive For
Originality
Attention Getting
Strong Composition
Communication of Intention
Mark of the Hand
Good Technique
Energy
Good From a Distance, Better Close Up
Learning from Jurors' Statements
Critique Groups
End Notes
Bibliography
About the Author