Cubist Explorations

Picasso...what images do you think of? Crazy heads with eyes in different planes going in all directions? People who are goofy-looking rectangles?
I admit, that's what I think of...and women with breasts pointing in directions Mother Nature never intended...

But we have been exploring Cubism in this week's lesson, with Pamela Allen's guidance. There is a huge variety of artwork out there exploring the concept of time and movement...

We started making basic shapes, making positive/negative images, fracturing them...

and developing them into a composition using all our previous lessons of the elements of art.

I started with the ubiquitous daisy shape common to quilters, okay, a little wonky daisy...

that has exploded into a wild garden!

I also tried a generic coffee mug

put in some contrasting backgrounds, an outline suggesting a cup...

and worked that fabric sketch into a piece I like very much, which reminds me of a collage. Wanna cuppa?

This has been so much fun. I would never in my dreams have thought I could do something like this! And I have enough handwork to stitch down to last me a very long time!