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| title: Happy Thanksgiving (proportion) media: fiber art (quilt) size: 36 x 49" date completed: Thanksgiving 2013 concept: this quilt depicts animals eating in an aspen tree for Thanksgiving |
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| title: Narnia (proportion) media: fiber art size: 48 x 54" date completed: 2012 concept: this quilt shows an idea of Narnia through a tree trunk. |
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| title: silk in Peru (color) media: fiber art size: 12 x 14" date completed: 2010 concept: I needed a travel project when I went to Peru |
My first comment is regarding the Peruvian silk piece. To me, the colors of the fabric chosen and how you've joined them together represent an inverted rainbow. The dark colors at the bottom give the piece a good proportional weight to the light colors at the top. The intermixing of some of the darker colors from the bottom on the piece into the top portion also provide interest to the rainbow effect. The colors of fabric chosen for the diagonal borders frame the art very nicely. In addition, the diagonal nature of the borders themselves complement and provide proportion to the over all piece, particularly as to the squares in the interior. The only aspect of the borders that doesn't work for me are the different types of circles use. In my opinion, I think the circles would complement the piece a little better if they were all the same type of circles (all solid, or all "lifesaver" type circles. The different sizes of the circles add interest for sure and I really like the concept. But I think the "lifesaver" type circles with the different colored outsides vs. insides using the colors of the fabrics used in the art, even if different sizes, would have given a more pleasing proportional effect to the border and its complement to even sided squares in the interior of the piece. Regardless of my opinion on circle size and type, I think the colors chosen for the circles used does provide a good juxtaposition to the squares in the interior.
ReplyDeleteMy next comment is regarding the "Narnia" trees. This must have been a difficult piece to take from concept to reality in order to get the proportion and depth perception needed between the trees in front to the "through the looking glass" tree hole scene of thewinter snow and cottage in back. You did an excellent job. The depth perception you created through the tree hole is amazing because the colors of the fabrics and thread selected really sets out the daylight on the front of the tree to the darkness of the interior of the tree and then out the other side to the winter snow, lamp post and cottage. I can almost feel the summery aspect of the tree compared to the winter cold of the cottage scene. Also, the color of fabrics selected to form the tree bark really gives a sense of the bark texture. Moreover, the portions of the vertical strips of fabric also contribute to the "reality" of tree bark. I didn't see it at first because of the subtle fabric colors used to blend it into the tree hole and scene behind, is the clock face on the interior of the "door" to the hole in the tree.that is so apropos to the "Narnia" concept you created. Even more awesome is the red fabric outline on the tree hole "door" that gives it the depth perception and portion of a door to the hole and then matches the red fabric used in the tree interior and the outside of the inside of the hole to scene on the other side.
Hi AussieMom, what is your real name and are you in the art 232 class.
ReplyDeleteLove your comments