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Art Quilt Tahoe 2008 |
Patty Hawkins Workshop Description ESSENCE (Haiku) of LANDSCAPES! COLORS AND SHAPES! Fusing compositions, we will use landscape images, colors and shapes which capture our attention. Creating these special images in color values allows sharing our feelings for a locale. Working with many values, and limited palette, gives depth to our landscapes, adding a few "zinger" accent colors. Design elements discussed to bring the viewer's eye into our art quilts. Writing a haiku is a fun way to "introduce" ourselves to our subject. Our focus creating individual artwork, showing our passion for our subject, having fun doing so! Invite your mind to RELAX! Be CREATIVE! Share Nature's tranquility in our work. Students create a fabric collage, exploring various exercises: Trial & error composing, throwing angst out the window! • Values and the way values create depth• Identify shapes created by value • Use a limited color palette; audition fragments of color in paper and fabric • Write a Haiki (3 line poem, 5, then 7, then 5 syllables) describing your subject! For your EYES only! Color photographs of YOUR CHOICE will be used in this class You are welcome to choose several photographs to bring: (from various sources) • a simple landscape, you find interesting • or an urban landscape, you find interesting • or a close-up of some interesting small area of nature: canyons, plateaus, seacapes, rocks, trees, leaves, natural vegetation, light & shadow patterns. TWO black and white photocopies of your PHOTOGRAPHS, for class • One to identify light, medium and dark values • A second copy to identify and MARK the large shapes Supply List for Patty's workshop (Supply lists are provided by the instructor and you are encouraged to direct any questions regarding required equipment and supplies to the instructor.) |
I espouse the Wabi Sabi thinking which finds beauty in imperfection. An unpredictable screen printing approach gives me the most amazing organic markings, and my “scarred aspen tree bark” fabric is produced by shibori pole wrap dyeing. Creating my own fabrics is truly like chocolate cake, without all the calories; just delicious beyond words! It is glorious fun to dye fabric! These unique fabrics give the visual impact I strive in my fabric collages; especially the depth of our Colorado landscapes. Visual textures are added with machine stitchery, or a layer of tulle for shadows. Lights and shadows of the day; the seasons of aspen and their skeletal structure; amazing rock formations; reflection scribbles; the stunning mountains, or new motifs in ordinary surroundings are fragments of ideas, in my work. My eyes are constantly searching for patternings to incorporate in my work and teaching. Earlier mountain quilts, “pieced” like jigsaw puzzles, were constructed, thanks to the set-in gusset technique we joke of having to learn in high school. Growing up in Louisiana in the 50’s, was artistically stagnant, although my Mother was a marvelous seamstress and she taught me the value of color and the intricacies of sewing. She emphatically told me “although people say green and blue don’t work well together in garments”, she did so anyway. We can certainly all point to the beauty of nature’s color combinations. My watercolor painting began 35 years ago, which taught me color and composition, although I could only paint great skies, and was thwarted by the foregrounds. Amazingly my fabric dyeing is like painting skies. THE CRAFT, POETRY OF THE PHYSICAL , 1987 exhibition at the Denver Art Museum , with quilts of Nancy Crow and Michael James mounted as stained glass windows, was pivotal to realize quilting was much larger “canvas” format for playing with color and fabric. Life is a balancing art of giving time to friends and family: 3 wonderfully creative grown children; and 3 talented grand children with whom I love to create art. My husband, Wes, cherish that we have lived in Colorado 40 years. We love to hike Rocky Mountain National Park ; especially in winter to enjoy the tranquility, when campgrounds are closed and we can walk Mandy (our dog) on the leash. Being an artist is a gift constantly practicing, and sharing with others.
See more of Patty's work in the AQT Gallery
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