Commentary about works in progress, design & creativity
AMH has made a movie of the recent blocks she has received. I didn’t recognize mine until I saw the little label I attached with a pin before I sent the blocks off. My block is shown at time marker :50.
The next deadline for blocks is August 1st. Send one in. The directions are posted on her site.
nightclub
nightlife
nightmare
at night
dark of the night
into the night
It was a dark and stormy night….
Night by Elie Wiesel
Go to bed
Night of the Living Dead
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The Creative Prompt Project, also, has a Flickr group, which you can join to post your responses. I created this spot so those of you without blogs and websites would have a place to post your responses.
Saturday Night Live
night sky
Night sky
last night
First Night
Fashion’s Night Out
Night terrors
I have been wanting to the create the Library or reading area in my house forever and this prompt was the perfect opportunity. It took me awhile to get the chair the way I, mostly, wanted it. I have a similar chair that I never get to sit in anymore. I may add some color to the books.
Check out the original prompt. Your responses are welcome!
purple
Violet Baudelaire from a Series of Unfortunate Events
flower
The Violet Fairy Book
Girl’s name
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shrinking violet
Violet Beauregarde from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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WOW! July already! Can you believe it?21 days until Lil Sissy‘s birthday and 26 days until DH’s. July and August are huge birthday months for our family. I had better get busy!
Parts of this drawing didn’t come out the way I intended, but that is the way of the world.I’ll do better next time, right?
Take a look at the original prompt and add your own response.
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The Creative Prompt Project, also, has a Flickr group, which you can join to post your responses. I created this spot so those of you without blogs and websites would have a place to post your responses.
The US celebration, the 4th of July, is coming this weekend. I thought I would take the opportunity to post this word.
Definition: 1 : to perform (a sacrament or solemn ceremony) publicly and with appropriate rites
2 a : to honor (as a holiday) especially by solemn ceremonies or by refraining from ordinary business b : to mark (as an anniversary) by festivities or other deviation from routine
3 : to hold up or play up for public notice <her poetry celebrates the glory of nature>intransitive verb 1 : to observe a holiday, perform a religious ceremony, or take part in a festival
2 : to observe a notable occasion with festivities
to take note of something extraordinary
party
Kool & the Gang Celebration song
ceremony
Mary Engelbreit was the inspiration for this drawing, as well as other drawings in my series of responses.
Check out the original prompt.
You might remember that there was some devastating flooding in Central Tennessee earlier this year. This is Anna Maria Horner’s neighborhood. She created a project, which I talked about on Thursday, called Rainbow Around the Block. Simply, she is collecting 12.5″ unfinished 2 color blocks (e.g. red and white, blue and orange, etc). These blocks will be made into quilts and given to families who lost their homes, belongings, etc.
Last week, she sat down with her children and designed blocks. I think this is a very nice idea. I can picture the children drawing and coloring and talking with their mom about helping these neighborhood families. We have these kind of times in my family where the lull of filling in a spot with color without the distraction of screen noise helps to free the mind from the mind’s monkey chatter and allows people to bring up interesting conversation topics.
She intends to post a version of each child’s work on the Rainbow Around the Block page as a group called The Horner Family Blocks. The first one, The Joseph Block, is up already. It is a simplified version of a Square in a Square block and simple directions are given for sewing it together. I am concerned about the way she suggests cutting a square into the quarters that the quiltmakers will have a lot of bias blocks to work with. Perhaps that is part of the plan? In any case, you can make any block you wish and a variety are already posted for your viewing pleasure in the Flickr Group.
I made two blocks. I don’t normally make 12×12″ (finished blocks) and the pieces seemed so large. I just made them, though, without questioning or quibbling. The first deadline is July 1. Close to 100 blocks have been posted to the Rainbow Around the Block Flickr Group. People have really taken the idea of letting the fabric do the work, that I talked about from the Jane Sassaman lecture, to heart. I guess they got the message sooner than I did!
What will YOU make?
A glyph (pronounced /??l?f/) is an element of writing. It is a slightly vague term, but a more precise definition might be an individual mark on paper or another written medium that contributes to the meaning of what is written there. A grapheme is made up of one or more glyphs. (Wikipedia)
See the Creative Prompt page if you have questions about this project.
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The Creative Prompt Project, also, has a Flickr group, which you can join to post your responses. I created this spot so those of you without blogs and websites would have a place to post your responses.
In World of Warcraft, Glyphs are spell and ability enhancements created by scribes. Until used, they
are not soulbound and can be traded or sold.
Mathwire states that “glyphs are a pictorial form of data collection. You might be reminded of the term “hieroglyphics” and think about early picture writing. Different forms of glyphs are used in many medical situations to quickly record data about a patient in pictorial form. For example, a dentist records cavities on a picture of teeth. A chiropractor might record injuries or muscle aches on a skeletal picture. In these cases, a “picture is worth a thousand words” and the glyph allows a doctor to more quickly record and analyze the data.
court reporting
shorthand
computer icons
emoticons
smiley faces
logos
The middle coffee poster is taken from a coffee poster that is hanging in a Starbuck’s near my office. Yergacheffe or Yirgacheffe is a kind of Ethiopian coffee.
I saw this poster when I first met Pamela Allen. She makes the greatest eyes and includes them in her pieces. This poster made me think of her, so I took a picture and sent her the photo. This image has been in my mind ever since.
I had this in my mind for awhile and started it once then threw that one out, because I had to go and look at feathers. I was reminded to get back to sketching before I do the final. I gave you a little peek at the top of the building.
OR:
what is your story for this picture?
One of the 15 known crystalline phases of water (Wikipedia)
cool
cold
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement
clinking
In Case of Emergency
a drug
polar cap
Iced Tea
Ice Age
ice cubes
ice try
ice sculpture
Arctic ice
ice cap
polar sheet
melting ice
on the rocks
ice bucket
ice skating
icebound
shave ice
Ice-T
ice fishing
dry ice
ice scraper
diamonds
See the Creative Prompt page if you have questions about this project.
Post the direct URL (link) where your drawing, doodle, artwork is posted (e.g. your blog, Flickr) in the comments area of this post. I would really like to keep all the artwork together and provide a way for others to see your work and/or your blog.
The Creative Prompt Project, also, has a Flickr group, which you can join to post your responses. I created this spot so those of you without blogs and websites would have a place to post your responses.
Old Blue Eyes
Eyes are organs that detect light, and convert it to electro-chemical impulses in neurons. (Wikipedia)
eye of the storm
owl eyes
Eye color
eye makeup
Eye of the Hurricane
bionic eye
Goldeneye
irish eyes are smiling
glass eye
Eyes Open (Snow Patrol)
eye care
googly eyes
Pink eye
Bird’s eye view
Eyes are the window of the soul
eye shadow
Seeing eye to eye
shifty eyed
eye liner
See the Creative Prompt page if you have questions about this project.
Post the direct URL (link) where your drawing, doodle, artwork is posted (e.g. your blog, Flickr) in the comments area of this post. I would really like to keep all the artwork together and provide a way for others to see your work and/or your blog.
The Creative Prompt Project, also, has a Flickr group, which you can join to post your responses. I created this spot so those of you without blogs and websites would have a place to post your responses.
Color
fish
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baked, grilled, smoked
Coho salmon
Farm salmon
bear food
Salmon: Salmon is the common name for several species of fish of the family Salmonidae. Several other fish in the family are called trout… (Wikipedia)
scales
Teriyaki salmon
wild salmon
endangered species
See the Creative Prompt page if you have questions about this project.
Post the direct URL (link) where your drawing, doodle, artwork is posted (e.g. your blog, Flickr) in the comments area of this post. I would really like to keep all the artwork together and provide a way for others to see your work and/or your blog.
The Creative Prompt Project, also, has a Flickr group, which you can join to post your responses. I created this spot so those of you without blogs and websites would have a place to post your responses.
We did a bunch of things at the CQFA meeting and one that I haven’t yet written about was the design exercises. We continued our design and creativity series (not sure if that is the name, but I had to make up something!). This time Friend Julie was the teacher. She used Color and Composition for the Creative Quilter: Improve Any Quilt with Easy-to-Follow Lessons by Katie Pasquini Masopust. I thought she was using the other book, so I told everyone the wrong thing, but no harm done in the end.
Julie decided to have us use paper instead of fabric and I think that got us to be a little freer. Julie was a great teacher! She gave clear directions, kept us on track and guided us skillfully.
The first exercise (upper left) was composing with line (pg.26 in Ms. Masopust’s book). Julie had us cut lines and choose a design from the “Nine Patch of Compositions.”
The second exercise was to break up the negative space with diagonal lines (upper right).
The next exercise allowed us to use curves (lower left). This is a design that reminds me of a quilt I have had on my inspiration board that is made of large feathers. I’ll make it someday.
Finally, we were allowed to use any of our scraps to create a final composition (lower right). The great part of this workshop was to work with others people and to see what they were making. It is fine line between seeing what people are doing and being influenced by what they are doing. I don’t think I was and I really enjoyed working with everyone.
Great job, Julie!