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Unexpected Inspiration
Saturday afternoon we went to the local high school for the art show/band concert/fundraiser. Our son is in band and had to play that afternoon. While his group set up, I browsed the art show. Students from kindergarten through high school created the works on display.
I forgot my camera, which is what usually happens when we’re trying to get music, instruments and people out of the house in a hurry, but a few items caught my eye. One was a display of prints from a printmaking class. I’d like to try this with fabric, so I went looking online for tutorials. I found this simple tutorial and this more complicated one.
The other was a series of picture collages. The students took numerous pictures of the same subject, only capturing a portion of the subject in each picture. Then they overlapped the pictures and mounted them on poster board to recreate the full image. It reminded me of fractured quilts, like the ones in Katie Pasquini Masopust’s book. The HGTV website has instructions here for creating your own fractured landscape quilt.
I believe that "fractured" thing was brought to an art form by David
Hockney in photos. Do a Google images search on him and you'll see what I
mean. Only reason I know this is because I had been attracted to his work
from something I saw (maybe at Toledo Museum of Art?) and thought it could
be done in fiber quite nicely!