Seeing Green

Lots of learning today! We spent some time with colour contrast, and here's a bit of frosty contrast I saw this morning, before class - I must have guessed we'd be discussing temperature :)I made various colour scales exploring green - the colour I've chosen to work with - to deepen my understanding of its value, intensity and temperature. I'm appreciating the learning, which is amplified by seeing and hearing about the colour explorations other students are doing.

And I've begun stitching a design focusing on contrasts of value and intensity. Some of the fibres are strips of silk and I'm delighting in combining various kinds of 'threads', because of all the delicious textures.

The colour green suits this class - Lesley uses a timer to keep us on track and growing!

It was raining at the beach, today. I like the peacefulness of the neutral palette.

I've covered my journal for the upcoming textile art course I am taking with this cotton that I had previously monoprinted with leftover thickened dye when I did some deconstructed screenprinting. No neutrals, there!

And here is a video of the surprise I found while at the beach:

Fresh Point of View

What glorious colours I saw today - whether magnolia blossoms, silken wild flowers, landscape or lichen. Sometimes when I'm sitting with the selection of a next fabric for what I'm working on, I need to walk away and change my viewpoint.

Colour Collection

When I first began gathering the copious amount of solid colour cottons on the supply list for the Nancy Crow workshop that I will take next month, it felt like reaching for the moon.

Another trip up island yesterday added to the layers piling up in the basket and I have only 15 colours left to find.
I notice photographing blues and reds

as I continue to stitch with them.

The Colour of Rain

This bottom photo was the view from out of the car window yesterday - a windy, rainy day for a refreshing adventure up island, with camera in hand. I like going out with no destination in mind, seeing where I end up and discovering surprises enroute. I have also purchased a few more solid coloured fabrics for my Nancy Crow workshop supply list, although I've decided to reduce the amount of colours I had orignally planned to have - I will still have lots. I continue to be amazed by the variety of colour and I notice how much satisfaction I get locating the appropriate place for another small swatch to go on the papers I've made up to track what I have so far. Sometimes a new colour doesn't fall into any of the categories I have and, of course, the 24 choices of various values that I'm working with are only a small sample of what's possible, but the bigger picture of colour is mind boggling - and exciting! I've also stitched a velvet backing onto the handstitched piece I am making, in preparation for more stitch on the front.