Last month I had a vase filled with gorgeous tulips. I took many photographs of the flowers as they opened. This photo inspired the piece I am working on now. I chose to use a method that I learned from Denise Oyama Miller several years ago — she calls it broken color. I like the […]
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Broken Color Exhibit
I have the good fortune to have my work hung with two other artists, a ceramicist and a painter, for a group show entitled Broken Color. You’ll be treated to ceramics by Bobbie Altman and paintings by Heather Robinson. Broken Color Group Show will be on view September 1st – October 31st, 2015 Creative […]
More Broken Colors
I’m going to be the Artist in Residence for Empty Spools Seminars later this month. Empty Spools has been putting teachers and students together to fine-tune quilt-making skills since 1985. The setting is Asilomar Conference Center in Pacific Grove, California, right on the ocean. It just doesn’t get any better. Being AIR is quite an […]
SAQA Donation Quilt
I learned a technique that Denise Miller calls broken color (after a water-color technique) earlier this month and I shared progress on a small art quilt. I’ve completed the quilt now and have decided to call it Broken Ginkgos. This quilt will be donated to Studio Art Quilts Associates (SAQA) for their 2012 fund-raiser. SAQA’s […]
Broken Color
I spent all day Wednesday hanging out with three friends — Denise Oyama Miller, Aileyn Ecob and Jean Jurgenson — learning a design technique new to three of us. Last year Aileyn and Jean said they wanted to learn about the technique Denise uses in some of her art quilts. She calls it broken color […]
