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Art + Quilt: Design Principles and Creativity Exercises
- ISBN13: 9781596681064
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Secrets for quilting success are presented through a variety of techniques, exercises, and insider tips to inspire novice quilters and experienced textile artists to make genuine works of art. Simplifying the basic fundamentals of art and teaching the underlying principles of the visual language, this guide explores texture, shape, line, color, and value with examples and hands-on exercises. Essential principles—such as focal point, balance, repetition, scale, and… More >>
Art + Quilt: Design Principles and Creativity Exercises
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The author opens the book by saying that it will not teach you everything you need to know but that she hopes it will give you a solid foundation from which to spring and give you direction for further study. The book begins opens with a discussion on getting ready to create that includes guest essays by Janine Leblan who talks about Overcoming Fear, Laura Cater-Woods tells you “Yes, You are Creative” and Hollis Chatelain talks about “Doing the Work”. The second chapter in this book introduces you to the Elements of Art sarting with some guidelines on how to do the exercises and materials and tools and then moves into talking about elements for the textile artist which include texture, shape, line, color and value. Chapter three deals with principle of design covering unity and variety, focal point, balance and symmetry, scale and proportion, depth and space, motion, and rhythm. Chapter four focuses on using a 45 minute a day exercise to explore all of the subjects covered in the previous chapters and includes a student gallery to illustrate the results. The book closes with a chapter on evaluation and critique to help you evaluate your own work and how to interpret the opinions of others. This is achieved with several gallery style pages of the authors work accompanied by questions to ask as you view the piece.
While this is a well written book filled with lots of beautiful work it does lack the in depth look at any of the topics covered in the second and third chapter which deal with the elements of art and the principles of design. However, it does, as the author states in the beginning of the book give you a basic foundation from which to work forward from.
Full color photographs and the authors easy conversational tone make it an easy enjoyable read.
Rating: 4 / 5
As an art teacher, I am frequently asked by students to recommend a good book to start them on the way to art quilting.
I can endorse this one heartily!
So many people feel intimidated by the vast tradition in quilting, but Lyric takes you past this in a fun and friendly way.
Through her exercises, she teaches a variety of techniques that introduce a fine art approach to the medium.
This book is an essential part of everyone’s book shelf who appreciates the fiber arts!
Rating: 5 / 5
Art + Quilt is perfect for quilters who want basic knowledge in the principles of art without taking an in depth class. It’s simple to follow, the activities are realistic and can be followed to the letter or with personal creativity, and it is interestingly written. I am working through the projects and learning by hands on experience.It is excellent for those of us who have artistic blocks, because it provides starter ideas. I highly recommend this book for quilters and fabric art students.
Joan New, Middleburg, FL
Rating: 5 / 5
I am a big fan of quilting arts on many levels, not least of which was the wisdom of asking Lyric Kinard to compile this book. I believe most women have a real power for creation and the book Quilt + Art not only gives you permission to explore and foster this gift but also the confidence (chapter 1), wonderful principles and projects. This book would be an excellent choice for a gift for yourself or others. I would recommend this book to anyone especially mature women who want to develop, rekindle, or nurture their creative spirits.
When reading the book, I felt as if I was getting to know a new friend. Lyric is amazing.
Rating: 5 / 5
I purchased a copy of this book from Lyric when she came to our local quilt guild to lecture and teach (both were great, by the way!)
I haven’t read the whole book yet, only the first chapter and the “analytical anthology” section, but I’ve looked through it all and I think it’s a great book. It’s also easy to use as it’s spiral bound.
Lyric offers some inspiring essays on creativity, including her own, in the first chapter, and subsequent chapers of the book cover the elements and principles of art, composition, and evaluation and critique. The book is liberally illustrated with high quality color photographs of quilts that show the various topics and concepts.
There are many creativity exercises throughout the book (many with multiple variations), and a unique “design game” in the back where you can copy the pages, cut out the cards, pick one and use it as a springboard for developing a small art quilt based on the card’s criteria. The creativity exercises have an “ask yourself” section of questions to ponder as you do the exercise.
A student gallery displays the work of volunteers who tested some of the exercises.
The chapter on evaluation and critique includes many of Lyric’s own quilts with lists of questions on how to evaluate a piece of art, and a second section discusses successes and lessons learned for a number of her art quilts. I thought this was very interesting.
To summarize, I think this is a fun, well laid out book which will be helpful for someone who wants to learn more about the fundamentals of art and how to incorporate these concepts into designing original art quilts. For myself, I have no art training background, and the information and excercises presented in this book will stimulate and inspire me to expand my design skills and abilities.
My one critique of the book is that even though some of the side bars have suggestions for further reading, there is no section in the back with a list of additional resources (which could include the sources cited in further reading so they would all be in the same place). I think Lyric is such an interesting person that it would be fun to see some of the resources, even non-quilt related, that have inspired her.
Rating: 5 / 5