Friday Flickr Faves


1. Block 23 detail A, 2. Nevena Uzurov - Water crown, 3. Under water world, 4. Astrattamente colorata

On last week's Friday Flickr Faves post, one of the commenters said something like "I'm curious to see what quilts you might make based on these photos".   So this week, I thought I'd show you how something like that might happen.

None of these photos are related, nor are any of them taken by the same photographer, but you can see in the quilt photos how someone might have been inspired by the water photos.

The photos I choose for Friday Flickr Faves are chosen for many different reasons.  Sometimes I choose them because I want to make direct interpretations:  the green fog with the tree in the foreground from last week, for instance I want to interpret quite literally and have asked the photographer's permission to do so.
But others may just be a "feeling" they inspire, whether it's an emotional feeling (hope/drama/intensity/etc.), physical feeling (movement/texture/shocked into stillness) or sensory feeling (lush/rich/voluptuous), or some combination of any of those. 

But sometimes it's as simple as the fact that I'm taken with the order in which the colours are falling in the original compostion as in the water photo on the right.  Blues into greens into golds into teals into loden into brown into blue into gold  - punctuated with intense dark red and feathered with icy blue-white highlights - I love the way it all draws your eye into the edge of...?  Whatever's next.

Also relating to last week's post - someone else asked how I make these mosaics.  I would have been happy to answer them directly, but their profile was set up as "no reply".  So, Michelle, if you're around, I make these and other Flickr toys through  Big Huge Labs.   There's a lot of fun stuff to tinker with there!

Have a great weekend.  See you Monday!

Anonymous

1 comment:

  1. It is funny to see my Under Water World quilt on your blog. Maybe you would like to know how I came to the idea to make this one. I had to make a quilt with the the the 'Under water world' as it was the theme that was given to our art quilt group by one of its members. I had to use a lot of colours, that were also given by this groupmember. Difficult fabrics, because they all were small, the colours did not match and the fabrics did not all have the same quality. So I first started to make a quilt of one of my own dyed fabrics, that reminded me of the movement of water. And I loved the colours. Then I made a little boy who is swimming under water, to see what is there. I added the circles, because bells under water are round too, and I wanted to let the boy swim through something. I also like circles ;-). And at last I decided to make under water plants of all the fabrics I had to use. And I am very content with the result. It is nice to see my quilt here too.

    Corryna

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