tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210759514036256082.post6912986609190199793..comments2024-03-08T00:12:34.350-08:00Comments on Art and Quilts, cogitations thereon: Read Art!Elizabeth Bartonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13928615247903165719noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210759514036256082.post-74177544991824140562009-09-14T07:28:00.025-07:002009-09-14T07:28:00.025-07:00I really love reading your posts. This one on meth...I really love reading your posts. This one on method of composition is excellent. I am trying to begin all over again, and not think in the same way as I used to many years ago. It is like learning to walk all over again. Your ideas about working small seem manageable. Sometimes beginning is a little daunting. I agree on the use of the library as well as the use of books on art.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210759514036256082.post-28934032228079151872009-09-12T15:08:15.628-07:002009-09-12T15:08:15.628-07:00People teaching painting could say, "Read tha...People teaching painting could say, "Read that book by Elizabeth Barton to learn a little more about color and composition." Maybe--in addition to examples from painting--there could be examples from fine quilting. Not a book about quilting but an art book with quilting as the medium. We have some wonderful art books of quilts, but they don't talk about composition or anything. We look and learn but we're kind of on our own to interpret sometimes. Give it a go, will you, please?!!!Jackiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04730298448632087144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210759514036256082.post-68214092755593015642009-09-12T10:43:13.673-07:002009-09-12T10:43:13.673-07:00I, for one, wish you would write a book on Art an...I, for one, wish you would write a book on Art and Quilting because those books on beginning painting or watercolor or whatever other media they use, eventually focus on the medium and then we need yet another source. And, if we are indeed an art, why can't we have a book about how to make quilt art, just as there are books about painting art, etc.? I respect and appreciate your knowledge and wish you would assemble all that you know into a book that represents US for the other disciplines.Jackiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04730298448632087144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1210759514036256082.post-58563533390944241592009-09-12T02:24:26.377-07:002009-09-12T02:24:26.377-07:00This is a really useful tip, one I was also given ...This is a really useful tip, one I was also given by Susan Brandeis at a workshop last year. I simply divide a sketchbook page/pages up and draw tiny ones to start with and find it helps to set a minimum: on the basis that first ideas aren't necessarily the best, and once you get rid of the obvious ones the more interesting ones start coming through. I also find it helpful to work quickly on this. It works for me - but only when i remember to do it!Sandra Wymanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04513871393590385611noreply@blogger.com