Sunday, June 1, 2014

bit if a square

On Friday I did a bit of sun printing with squares - in between some computer work and last day of school festivities and ceremony.



I am really liking an idea of pixelated color. How that translates really well into quilting and traditional quilt block patterns but is also directly related to all of these digital images we share, send, print and lay eyes on outside of our own act of vision. I have been piecing lots of squares but wanted a few different ways of using that idea without always having to do the piecing.




















Those tulip leaves I loved, stitched and painted in April never bloomed. I am working on a cloth that sort of grows out of those leaves and so I am making my own imagined bloom out of squares. I have even added bit of appliqué.
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9 comments:

  1. AnonymousJune 2, 2014 at 9:46 AM

    Ah ! the brilliance of simple ideas. I really like this Susan, what beautiful results!

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    1. SusanJune 5, 2014 at 10:01 AM

      I like the organization. Which is funny, because it's really not a quality of mine.

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  2. Mo CrowJune 2, 2014 at 2:55 PM

    hmmm we now see the world as pixilated... it was all so new in 1980 when I first saw a Pacman game, that's when we started to see images in pixel squares rather than the dots of halftone screen printing & sound in squared off bytes rather than the curved waves of analog recordings.. the resolution for both is improving all the time... & is much more like the spirals and curves we see with our naked eyes when we go out for a walk with nature or magnify the structure of a leaf... the digital world has truly changed our view on reality...

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    1. SusanJune 5, 2014 at 10:04 AM

      Well I really like those halftone screen dots too, Mo. Gradations in dots.
      There's an organization to everything when you magnify it - things in nature. I like to think about that too in all of this.

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    2. Mo CrowJune 5, 2014 at 5:39 PM

      yes fractals... the infinite macro and micro of those mathematical progressions

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  3. judeJune 5, 2014 at 7:45 AM

    really beautiful idea... pixilated , yes, me too, and always loved patchwork as applique. these are wonderful....i love your whatiffing.

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    1. SusanJune 5, 2014 at 10:09 AM

      Hey I had a wonderful teacher for the what-iffing! : )
      and I am enjoying wandering around in this idea. I do like the neatness and organization of it in contrast to some of the drawn and stitched lines I have been making.

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  4. SaskiaJune 8, 2014 at 5:23 AM

    had not heard of this technique before, so did some googling...anyway first one needs sun, aha, and then the medium, what did you use? I do like the result
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  5. Morna Crites-Moore * Wicked WaifJuly 24, 2014 at 8:45 PM

    This is wonderful!

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