Terry Grant has introduced some good ideas about mark making on the quiltart list. Marks that are not necessarily surface design types like screening, or painting, or airbrushing. I love how she categorizes the history of mark making, from cave painting to the universal methods children use.
Petroglyphs from the desert southwest.
Child's drawing...wow what a lot of different marks!
Van Gogh, I've always admired how he directs the eye simply with the direction and weight of his line.
Cy Twombly can make a cacophony with the various thicknesses and agitation in his line.
All good stuff. But how to translate it to fabric. Yes I could quilt in these types of lines ...even vary the thickness.But it occurs to me looking at these, that there are a multitude of fabrics with similar linear patterns. I'm going to try an image by combining linear patterns and see what happens.
3 comments:
can't wait to see what you come up with pamela!!! expressing emotion with marks other than !!!!! confuses me, but I'd love to understand!!!
janice/Houston
Hi Pamela,
I am loving your recent posts in which you share more of your knowledge of the elements of art. Great stuff! Thank you!
Or you can think of a line as a very fine strip, inserted somwhere ...
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