What is the best way to beat the heat? Quilt, quilt, quilt. Our outside thermometer reached 108.1 yesterday.
We were lucky to receive an invitation to spend last week in VT, especially since we were without electricity for the week from the serve storms that hit Friday night, June 27th. Needless to say, I didn't get any quilting done last week.
The weather in Vermont was glorious and we enjoyed our time visiting with my cousin at Smuggler's Notch Resort. The resort offered watercolor painting classes with a local artist, Karen Winslow . Even though, I have not touched a paint brush since I don't know when, I signed up for two classes on landscape painting and I am happy I did. The tips I learned from her were invaluable and I will certainly incorporate them into my quilting.
1. Look at the world through color evaluators, green plastic strip for outdoors and red plastic strips for indoors. You can also take pictures and convert them to gray scale.
2. Frame your subject with a framing card or use your fingers to form the frame. I used my camera view finder as my framer.
3. Hold your hand out, palm side up. Now hold your hand vertical to the floor. Which hand appears lighter? When you hold your hand palm up it reflects more light, so do objects that are flat as opposed to vertical.
4. To make objects appear in the distance use cool colors. Use violet for mountains in the distance. To make objects appear closer, use warm colors.
5. When illustrating a landscape reflect the colors of the sky on the ground. At sunset, make sure to put even the pink on the ground.
6. At sunset, what is closest to you is the darkest.
As you can see, I am no painter, but I tried to incorporate, some of her teachings into my painting sketch during the lesson. We sat in a field at sunset and I tried to capture what a saw.
Here is a picture of a landscape that I took in Stowe, Vermont at the Von Trapp Family Lodge that we visited. I plan to try to use what I learned from Karen in my painting class in making a wallhanging of this picture.
We were lucky to receive an invitation to spend last week in VT, especially since we were without electricity for the week from the serve storms that hit Friday night, June 27th. Needless to say, I didn't get any quilting done last week.
The weather in Vermont was glorious and we enjoyed our time visiting with my cousin at Smuggler's Notch Resort. The resort offered watercolor painting classes with a local artist, Karen Winslow . Even though, I have not touched a paint brush since I don't know when, I signed up for two classes on landscape painting and I am happy I did. The tips I learned from her were invaluable and I will certainly incorporate them into my quilting.
1. Look at the world through color evaluators, green plastic strip for outdoors and red plastic strips for indoors. You can also take pictures and convert them to gray scale.
2. Frame your subject with a framing card or use your fingers to form the frame. I used my camera view finder as my framer.
3. Hold your hand out, palm side up. Now hold your hand vertical to the floor. Which hand appears lighter? When you hold your hand palm up it reflects more light, so do objects that are flat as opposed to vertical.
4. To make objects appear in the distance use cool colors. Use violet for mountains in the distance. To make objects appear closer, use warm colors.
5. When illustrating a landscape reflect the colors of the sky on the ground. At sunset, make sure to put even the pink on the ground.
6. At sunset, what is closest to you is the darkest.
As you can see, I am no painter, but I tried to incorporate, some of her teachings into my painting sketch during the lesson. We sat in a field at sunset and I tried to capture what a saw.
Here is a picture of a landscape that I took in Stowe, Vermont at the Von Trapp Family Lodge that we visited. I plan to try to use what I learned from Karen in my painting class in making a wallhanging of this picture.
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