It is taking more time than I thought it would take, but here are some pictures from the Sue Benner workshop at Empty Spools Seminars at Asilomar, CA. More tomorrow.
Del, the Hulk, with Sue Benner 03-08-17
Del, the Hulk, with Sue Benner 03-08-17
The inspiration at top left and the five abstractions.
The two on the left are from the window in back of the sofa. The monochromatic is from the chair inn the front left corner and, of course, the one on lower right is from the pillows on the sofa.
Realistic abstraction.
Color change abstraction.
Cushions on sofa.
Abstraction of window behind sofa.
First, Sue had us all stand in a circle, each with five pieces of fabric cut six inches square. We then swapped one fabric with the people on each side. I missed the part about "different" fabrics and had made all mine the same, resulting in only having three fabrics to work with instead of five. The brown and the grey were the exchanged fabrics.
For our first assignment Sue gave each student an image from a magazine. No choices, just take what she gives you and abstract it using the five fabrics we exchanged. Sort of like throwing someone in the pool and saying sink or swim. We all swam, with differing degrees of success. In my piece the penguins became five spikes.
Elaine Pappas-Puckett brought the image at top left from home and used it to do the next assignment which was to abstract that image in five different ways. She was particularly attracted to the curved, diagonal line in her inspiration picture.
For her first assignment Elaine interpreted the image on the left. I can't tell what it is.
Karynn Dittmar's first assignment is at the top. The second down is an abstraction of a field of wild flowers at Anza Borrego, taken some years ago.
Karynn's tree photo at top resulted in two abstracts in fabric.
Barb Virtue based her five abstracts on the photo at top left, taken in Canada.
Barb's first assignment evolved from the picture of a tornado on the right.
More pictures tomorrow.
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