Notan

The new Quilting Arts Magazine came the other day. Jane Dunnewold has an interesting article in it about the positive/negative exercises called Notan. So I decided to try it, and this is what I came up with:

For the above, I cut a blossom shape out of the dark paper, and reversed it for the positive/negative effect. Very lacy, and the black and white squares are very quilt like.

Next I tried a more involved design, of a Christmas ball. Unfortunately, after a considerable amount of work, it looks like baseballs to me. I like the pinwheel effect caused by the roundness of the image.
Read the article and try it. It really is fun and it's way different from the way I usually work. I remember that Jane taught a weekend workshop in Notan a while back at QSDS. Now I wish I had taken it.

TV Update

Lately, my life has seemed way to boring to inflict it on the blogging public. But here I am, back again. However, an update on the tv problem: after a period during which it did not turn itself on at 8PM, it has begun again. Maybe I need an exorcist.

I have some work exhibited in the lobby gallery of RTKL Associates, a Baltimore architectural firm. The other artists exhibiting now are Cathy Kleeman and Adrien Dawson. We are members of a local fiber group, Fiber Artists of Baltimore. RTKL's Art in the Workplace committee found the group on the web and asked us to submit slides, and Cathy, Adrien and I were chosen to exhibit. We each have one wall in the lobby, and we share a wall in one of the conference rooms. Since I have a series of small (8 x 10) pieces, I was able to show them in another conference room.

I have photos, but the new google-blogger won't let me upload. Great first impression of the new blogger.