I have been playing around with a little applet Websites as graphs which is a fun and interesting visualisation tool. I wrote a post about it on my other blog Mindtracks. As I was playing around with these images I thought about translating them into textiles. If you are interested …
Owen Jones classic The Grammar of Ornament is online. The 1910 edition is provided free by the Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture Another gem from the same collection of e books also by Owen Jones is the 1867 edition of Examples of Chinese ornament selected from …
A couple of weeks ago I pointed to Maria Peagler’s site. Maria left a comment about her series of blogs posts on Developing Your Own Color Palette. It is only now I have had a chance to take a good look at them. The series has been published as part …
For anyone who really enjoys illustration of the Art Deco period the flickr site Deco illustrated will have you compulsively clicking through the images of 1920’s – 1930’s colour illustrations and pictures.
Charlotte Jirousek of Cornell University have provided a textbook for Art Design and Visual Thinking . This design course includes articles on the Language of design, design elements and principles, application of media, colour psychology, notes on the fine art movements, and the decorative arts.
In my classes I always recommend using a colour wheel to sort out colour. I stumbled across Maria Peagler’s list of Top Ten Myths About Quilters Using the Color Wheel and nodded at every single one. I have heard every one of these or versions of these and she argues …
Anyone reading yesterdays post will realise that in the stitching class I have students exploring the notion of points. In my class used Pointilism as an example of works based on point. Yesterday Nan of What boggles my Mind discovered the Pointilism Practice Page it is an educational interactive site …
