Here is the second installment of CC#7 Closeup and Artist Statements!
"Two Trees in the Foreground"
Ellen
As soon as the challenge to work mostly in black and white was
explained, I knew that I would find my inspiration in an Ansell Adams
photograph. From the beginning of the Creative Conglomeration, I have
been drawn to landscape scenes that seem to peer into a grove of
trees. In this project, I did a "crazy quilt" piecing of many
different black with white prints to suggest different shafts of light coming
into the forest, choosing a trapezoidal shape of solid black to echo the
general shape of the larger tree. The white trunks were pieced in after
slashing the initial background. I defined the trunks and main branches
of the two featured trees by thread-painting their outlines and painting in the
trunks. The suggestion of leaves was also painted. Since we were
asked to add a small amount of "our" color to the black and white, I
added orange hand embroidery to suggest autumn color in the remaining canopies,
in the air and on the ground.
"Tonia's
Muse"
Patty
The challenge was to use black and white and the color
we chose in the challenge we put out to the group, taking inspiration
from an artist we admire. That was yellow for me. My inspiration was fused
glass artists, my friend Tonia in particular. I used tulle over the background
and quilted it very closely to simulate the opalescent qualities off pearlized
white glass. The black and yellow stripes represent the layering off
colors used in fusing. I envision this "glass" being slumped
to make a free form bowl.
More to come!
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