{"id":37374,"date":"2017-08-08T06:27:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T13:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=37374"},"modified":"2017-08-06T21:39:31","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T04:39:31","slug":"art-quilt-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/art-quilt-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Quilt Start: Background"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I said yesterday, I saw Sarah Ann Smith’s quilt, Speak Up, Speak Out<\/em><\/a> and a whole bunch of stuff coalesced in my mind. Mind you, I didn’t even really<\/em> know that all that stuff was rolling around. I have been feeling stressed out since the Inauguration and all of the stuff stressing me out suddenly came together.<\/p>\n

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Background 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As I said, I started working on my project from a couple of drawings in my journal. I had no measurements beyond “not big” when I started working on the\u00a0 background.<\/p>\n

I, again, used Mary Mashuta’s Pushed Neutral technique. I have done this in the past<\/a> with other neutrals and now I use the same techniques with colors. This time, I worked with grey. Some of the greys are a little dark, but I keep telling myself the darks create disharmony, which is one thing I was trying to do. This quilt should unsettle you. I think, ultimately, the whole idea worked.<\/p>\n

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Background 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I did move some of the squares around to get the right mix of locations with darks and lights of grey.<\/p>\n

This was the first layer.<\/p>\n

Posts about Down the Drain<\/p>\n

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    As I said yesterday, I saw Sarah Ann Smith’s quilt, Speak Up, Speak Out and a whole bunch of stuff coalesced in my mind. Mind you, I didn’t even really know that all that stuff was rolling around. I have been feeling stressed out since the Inauguration and all of the stuff stressing me out … Continue reading “Art Quilt Start: Background”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[149,444],"class_list":["post-37374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-434","tag-art-quilts","tag-down-the-drain"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}