Finished Something

HI:  113*
LO:  81

A weaving design from a color study.

 

 

 

 

I think it is a nice clean contemporary design.  It is going to be fun to see how it looks in the cottons for dishtowels.  I know they will be a lot lighter and brighter.  Not sure what I'll make from the acrylic yarns.  Maybe a throw.  Anyway it is a handsome design, all digital, and probably doesn't match any yarn.  :)!

I absolutely accomplished something today, ta da:

 

And I've looked around and I actually may be able to weave it with a four-harness loom.  Now back to the basics.  I'm crocheting a chain.  ;)!

 

 

One last quote from Exercise One.  ". . . there are 2 kinds of changing influences working in 2 directions, light on the one side and hue on the other.  And both occur simultaneously -- though in varying strength."

 

 

Albers would have the student approach this exercise as a laboratory experiment.  The control is the 2 pieces of paper, each from the same source and the two different ground papers of different hues but the same size and shape.  Further he would want the execution clean and precise with no rough edges or artist's marks.  Simply presented as above to demonstrate the one influence in each.  The exercise is not meant to decorate or demonstrate the artist's self.  But only to demonstrate the fact of color interactions.  I took the exercise a bit further and with the author's admonition to keep it simple I kept redoing the draft until I had the influenced color completely surrounded by the influencing color.  I feel that if I ended up with a pleasant design it is do to the fact that I cheated a bit and reduced my colors to a few selected from a collection designed to go together.  This is my personal aim, to learn but also to be productive.  And I'm aware of the danger of falling into the trap of not innovating but following instead the current fads.  Be that as it may, I do have to work with what is available, in my price range, and immediately useful and not labor intensive as if would be if I was dyeing my own yarn.  Notwithstanding that is an option for the future.  These are my thoughts jotted down for the possibility I may teach this exercise to students in the future.  Hopefully I may find some guidance on how it can be translated to be useful in the textile arts.