Cubism wine is finished

And here is the finished result of Cubism. I called it Cubism Wine. As you can see because of the squaring up, I lost part of the wine glass stems at the top and the left of the quilt. That is a point of attention I have to keep in mind for whenever in the future I use narrow objects close to the edges.

If you want to see how you can make a Cubism drawing, check out this link. It looks so easy, but no doubt is more difficult in reality: http://www.ehow.com/video_8040264_draw-cubism-art.html

Cubism

Cubism was the subject of the latest lesson of Pamela Allen's class. And although the Cubism paintings look so simple, making a Cubism composition is very hard to do. At least it is for me :-).

The first picture shows my starting position. Well starting position is the proper word, because a lot had to be done to it to make it Cubism style.

 First of all, it was too empty. More repitition was needed and the composition was too flat. I started with cutting the top into pieces. Oh boy, that is scary. The first cut was through the wine glass from top right to bottom left. I moved one part a bit higher than the other one and it looked already much better. Sorry, but I forgot to take a picture of that. The second cut was from top left to halfway bottom right. I used some of the cut of fabric and added some more green. Also I added more wine glasses and more grapes. And I changed some of the colors of the word wine. After these changes the composition looked much better:

 But it needed some more definition for which I added a piece of black fabric at the left. This really showed of the glasses much better. With this composition I am happy. I have started quilting it and will show the results later on.

Cubism

It took a joined effort, but the cubism piece got its title. Thanks to Lynn and Kelly, it is now called 'Breaking free'.
The last couple of days I have been working on two quilts. Pictures will follow in a few days.

Cubism

For one of Pam's classes we had to study Cubism. This style I always liked, but I never really studied it. There is such a wide variety in how the painters worked. I found some inspiration for future use there.

The next step was to translate cubism into fabric. And this turned out to be much more difficult. The paintings look so easy but to create something like that in fabric is really hard. After several starting points that did not work out, I ended up with this piece:

Size is 12,5"x14"(32x36 cm). It has no title yet, no idea has popped up yet. So if you have a suggestion, please let me know.