tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210759514036256082.post8373829109779454538..comments2024-03-08T00:12:34.350-08:00Comments on Art and Quilts, cogitations thereon: The person in the pieceElizabeth Bartonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13928615247903165719noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210759514036256082.post-16427416797834408972011-03-03T06:22:51.848-08:002011-03-03T06:22:51.848-08:00That's so true, Wen, use your tools creatively...That's so true, Wen, use your tools creatively and let your voice and the marks of your own hands ring through and you can make any techniques work for you. Use the tools in a careless, thoughtless facile manner and that's just the sort of work you end up with. Like they say, you've got to put in the time!Elizabeth Bartonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13928615247903165719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210759514036256082.post-14398178805018645372011-03-02T16:16:01.988-08:002011-03-02T16:16:01.988-08:00I think working digitally is a creative tool. Not ...I think working digitally is a creative tool. Not only must you have an eye and take intriguing photographs. Your vision will show.<br />You can then leave them as is, manipulate them, layer them, fuse them with other photos, tile them, draw into to them using a digital pencil. Not to mention deciding how to print them. What cloth or paper to use. Add a digital underpainting, or not. THEN when they are printed, you can go forward in the creation.<br />Photo Shop tools are digital paint brushes!<br /> It is a very creative technique- much as any surface design technique is!Wenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09040765990288540781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210759514036256082.post-63871015792374221392011-03-02T12:25:43.977-08:002011-03-02T12:25:43.977-08:00What I'm not impressed by is when a person sim...What I'm not impressed by is when a person simply prints an image onto cloth and calls that a quilt. Using these self printed fabrics as fabrics with further manipulation, stitching and so on, cutting, appliqueing piecing - all the magical things that we do! - is something much more artistic. I think working with commercial fabric is difficult for in a way you have to overcome the designer's voice and intentions; having said that there are some people who do a marvelous job with this.Elizabeth Bartonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13928615247903165719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210759514036256082.post-88772089441088227782011-03-02T11:28:38.967-08:002011-03-02T11:28:38.967-08:00You have addressed a very current and important is...You have addressed a very current and important issue, but I am confused about the comments about digital work. Many use Photoshop to create art, whether whole cloth or pieced textiles (Linda Colsh, Joan Schultze, Gloria Hansen, Wen Redmond, to name a few).<br /><br />My work usually starts with my own drawing or photo which I either create in Photoshop, or alter digitally, and then print on a textile. That piece may be used in paper lamination, stitched, used to make a thermofax -- the list is seemingly endless. <br /><br />Is cutting up and stitching fabric we create ourselves in this manner somehow less valuable than cutting up and stitching someone else's store-bought fabric design, or fabric we have dyed ourselves?<br /><br />I would like my work to be judged based on artistic merit alone, whether I design the piece with my own fabric or use fabric created by others. Thanks for raising this topic!Pamela Price Klebaumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12918250568737970054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210759514036256082.post-76903643892318412682011-03-02T06:41:49.586-08:002011-03-02T06:41:49.586-08:00I've only begun taking a look at your blog, El...I've only begun taking a look at your blog, Elizabeth, but so far I like what I see. You're touching in this discussion on issues that have concerned me for some time, not whether technique alone makes art, but what makes a justifiable statement within the work: what art is it worthwhile to make?<br /><br />I'll keep following you as best I can, and hope you continue along these lines. I'm still eager to learn . . .<br /><br />Oh, and thanks for your efforts!Dena Crainhttp://www.denacrain.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210759514036256082.post-11143357105360709032011-03-02T05:06:06.322-08:002011-03-02T05:06:06.322-08:00Jeez Luweez~! Finally someone saying out loud what...Jeez Luweez~! Finally someone saying out loud what I have been feeling (since I did it one time, years ago) about cramming a piece of cloth through a printer, copying a digital image onto it and stitching said transfer onto another piece of cloth and being astounded! <br /><br />Get over this nonsense! All I could ever think of were tacky tourist t-shirts. Just because it can be done doesn't mean it should.Deb Lacativahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03037530669295128974noreply@blogger.com