Together
I thought I’d do a post with all the quilts I’ve made that are similar to Structures #48. These images are a bit deceptive because the quilts are all different sizes but I’ve sized the digital images all about the same width (click the images for larger versions). In reality they range from the very small Structures #26 (2 feet wide) up to the huge Structures #28 (7 feet wide).
I enjoy taking an idea like this and just making small changes to see what happens. It’s a mini series inside of my larger Structures series. This way I don’t have to do everything all in one quilt and expect it to be perfect. I can take the time to really explore an idea in detail.
I have ideas for more quilts with these blocks but I’m not sure I’ll get to them anytime soon. Problem is I have too many ideas and right now some other ideas are screaming louder in my head to try them out.
Structures #26 ©2004 24"x24"
Structures #28 ©2004 57"x84"
Structures #31 ©2004 34"x53"
Structures #47 ©2007 61"x76"
Structures #48 ©2007 50"x65"
Apologies for the bad photography on Structures #31. It is my Quilt National 2005 piece and only have slides of the piece taken by a professional photographer and the quilt is sold so I won’t have a chance to get good digital images. I quit using this guy to photograph my work because I discovered the slides came out way too yellow than reality for my tastes. Sure made the art look great when projected but it reproduces horribly on the web and in print.
[Update 4/12/07 - I've updated the image of #31 in this post so it's a better quality image.]
Posted by Lisa in: Abstract Contemporary Textile Art, Working in a Series
Lisa, #28 and #31 are ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS! #47 makes me feel like I am driving down a wet foggy morning here in Vermont.
Not only is the fence/border thing strong, but there is a language going on here….its good stuff.
#28 abd #31 are my favorites too! They are fantastic!!
Lisa, in Photoshop, you would probably be able to retone the image to be more accurate and be how you want. I think it is great – but I haven’t seen the original.
Sometimes color clouds the structure of things but the structure is striking in the color also. I am very impressed (maybe a little jealous) of all the work you have been able to crank right out!!
Keep it up!
~ Diane Clancy
I have to say something else. I often have 2 browsers open when I post. That way I can look at the post easily in a separate browser as I am writing. After I wrote my comment and looked at the whole post again, I was shocked!
I am writing in Firefox and I have Safari open and looking at the post. Side by side the colors are incredibly different. Same screen, same computer, same eyes, same time … you get the point – but the different browser makes the colors look so different!!
The neutrals look the same so I didn’t catch it til now.
~ Diane Clancy
Hi Lisa – I just wrote a post in my blog and I thought of you … so I want to quote
From Diane’s blog – http://www.dianeclancy.com/blog (The Empty Chair – Pastel)
“My teacher, Michael Coblyn, used to talk about how each time one takes an image and translates it to another medium, it is important to see it as a new painting.
He encouraged us to not get caught up in trying to duplicate the image but instead to look at it as a new creation. This thinking has been incredibly helpful to me as I have taken my paintings created in traditional mediums and translated them into digital paintings.”
After I wrote this, I thought of you, Lisa, and my noticing that even between browsers the colors of your quilts are different. This idea might be helpful as you look at your digital images and they differ from your quilts – and that doesn’t feel so good.
Hope this helps!
~ Diane Clancy
Hi Lisa,
I recently bought the Quilt National 2005 book on Amazon and the colours of your quilt in the book are totally different! Was that the same photographer? They look much more mustardy here.
Thanks for all the inspiration. I’m just working on a quilt at the moment thats not working out how I had hoped and sometimes its good to browse around and check out whats happening in the big world.
You show so well how an aspect of similarity can have so many different manifestations. I love not only the colour change effects, but also the emotional responses the colours, tones, and their layout can evoke. I admire the way you can achieve meditative calm in Structure #28, and a feeling of movement – a spiral dance in Structure #48. And this is my reaction to small flat pictures. I imagine that the work in its full reality must be aweinspiring.
Structures #28 – Thats my fav