What Was I Thinking? and Great Quote

After the almost stellar weekend (see below), reality check...I have a lecture and class, Tues and Wednesday....and haven't done a thing to get ready for it. See what happens when you have too much fun....your mind goes into artist mode.

Hitting the ground running, still have a full evening, but the dvd orders are at the shipper, the class patterns are printed, the quilts are packed and I am sitting here like the world is level blogging. Come on folks, let's keep our priorities straight. However, the thoughts of art still keep creeping in. While blog surfing in my oh, so free time, I found this great description on composition. Would be happy to credit the author, but forgot to bookmark the page......so please forgive me for this one time use.

This quote was selected since we have been discussing how we approach our work....remember using photographs, line drawings, photoshop., etc. Thought this might be another opening for discussion.

"There are some other terms commonly used to describe form and shape in composition; these have to do with what kind of representations the forms have. If we can recognize every day objects and environments, we refer to the images as being realistic or naturalistic. However, if the images are different or impossible to identify in terms of our normal daily visual experience, we may refer to them as abstract.

There are several kinds of abstract images. Generally, abstractions are "abstracted" or derived from realistic images--perhaps even distorted--, but perhaps in such a way that the source is not immediately apparent. An example of this would be one of Georgia O'keefe's paintings of a detail from a flower. This kind of abstraction in art is sometimes referred to as an objective image--that is it is dervied from an actual object. On the other hand, some abstract art images are based on pure study of form, line, and color and do not refer to any real world object or scene. Such art works are sometimes referred to as non-objective images.

Clear, to the point and yet intruiging. We can start anywhere in the process and end at any style in the process. Where are you right now? Where do you want to go? Do you see yourself in transition?


Now having pundited, there are clothes to pack and more stuff for class. Zoom...zoom.