When I read what our next theme was to be I was immediately reminded of this photo that I took as part of an assignment on the principles of design for my City and Guilds.
I wanted to make something more abstract so I thought about using different colours. This led me to thinking of the work of Andy Warhol and his use of colour. I experimented a bit in Photoshop Elements as I wrote about here. I also played using some different colours:
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That was enough experimenting so I moved on to working in fabric. And this is the final result:
It’s 51 X 70 cm and made from my hand dyed fabric. It is mostly fused appliqué, which seemed the most sensible way to make the small colour areas, although it’s not my most favourite method of appliqué. I only machine quilted the areas that weren’t fused, because it is so stiff where it is fused.
Love the colours Ruth, really rich. I think the simplicity of the design works really well – it makes you look at the negative spaces as well.
[...] here about part of the design process. You can see some more of the process over on UYE on this post. Part of the inspiration for the different coloured images was the work of Andy Warhol. He used [...]