More Color-Pattern Class projects

In Lesson 2 of my Pamela Allen class, the assignment was to choose a painting, and reproduce it in fabric using the complementary, or opposite color scheme.  The blacks remain black and the whites remain white.  This exercise has caused much moaning, groaning, and gnashing of teeth among a group that thought they knew all about color!


I chose the painting House in a Garden by Picasso.  I thought it had simple shapes and not too many colors to deal with.

I got the lesson done and passed, but it was very frustrating and took all weekend. Blogger wants to rotate the pictures so I will skip adding them at this time.  It helped to convert the photos to grayscale to compare values.

Then, for part 2, we were to compose an art quilt in just two colors of our choice.  This was much more fun.  My brain is already in Hawaii, so I made an undersea garden in blue and green.

This one will take awhile to stitch because it is all just laid on top of one another, including the fibers.