NTAQ September meeting

“One who knows how to appreciate color relationships, the influence of one color with another, their contrasts and dissonances, is promised an infinite variety of images.”~ Sonia Delaunay

      Today my favorite art group, NTAQ met to share what we had been working on.  We had a bit different challenge this time. The past two meetings, we had been working on collages from paper, concentrating on creating illusional transparencies.  One month we worked in color...for example, if you layered a yellow color with a blue, the area which over lapped would be green. In working with black, white, and shades of gray, it is more a matter of values...lights and darks!

Michelle's-paper collage above/fabric below

Wendy's

Bethany's

Bethany did two

Tina brought the fabric she might use in her collage!

I used my black, white and gray collage.

Heather also did BWG

All our September challenges

Last month we did the Fernand Leger for our challenge but a few of our members were not there so they brought their works this time:

Michelle's

Bethany reworked hers-top:first/lower-redone

Kay's

    And then we had a showing of other stuff we had been doing and working on....

Bethany has been experimenting with triangles and has a plan to do a quilt
in honor of those who have struggled through the recent hurricanes

And Bethany has been working with some  sun screens with natural items from her yard.

Heather is working on another piece from a paper collage just in
a different color scheme

Kay's

Kay's

     Wendy is continues to be our NTAQ over achiever!!!  We all aspire to be like her!

Wendy pointing out changes she would make if doing again.

     Kay, Bethany, Andrea and I had taken classes at the Arlington Expo a few weeks ago. Bethany took a class from Cindy Lohbeck on dyeing 24 shades of color which I didn't get a picture of!  Andrea and I had taken Lohman's Mandala class:

Andrea's Mandalas

Some of my mandalas..My design wall isn't big enough to hold all.

All four of us took Cindy Lohbeck's class on Shibori...

Andrea's

Mine

Bethany's

Kay's-another notorious over achiever! Already made her fabric
into a work of art!

    To end the meeting, Kay demonstrated how we created the shibori with all steps but the actual dyeing...all of us are dyers, so those who want to try this can do it on our own. And, of course, the kits, including fabric, dyes, instructions, etc...all you would need can be ordered from Cindy Lohbeck's website.... Hands on Hand Dyes. She will also be teaching at the Expo next year too, so watch for the ads!