Four in Art: Light in the Darkness

The second quarter seems to have come around far too fast and it was certainly a scramble to get this done.

There were so many possibilities for directions with this one and this idea centred on the way light both reflects off glass in a city building and is lit from within at night.

You can read more about this on my blog http://faffling.blogspot.co.nz

Light Shimmer

This theme inspired me to notice again the patterns that light makes on calm water; which I'm fortunate to have had the opportunity to observe from my kayak, whether on the sea, lakes or river.

Here is what I came up with and if you'd like to read more you can do that here on my blog.

Rising Above the Blues

This final quarter in our Colour theme for our Four in Art group this year, the sub theme was "I've got the Blues" I guess this could be interpreted in a musical way or in the direction I have chosen, which springs more naturally to mind for me, working as I do in the Mental Health field. I've called my interpretation Rising Above the Blues.

I wanted to let the blues sink down to have the lighter shades rise to the top; the nesting tessellating blues subtly meshing and becoming distinct, which alludes to the thoughts and feelings that structure our moods, blue or otherwise.

Initially I was going to quilt it using an orange peel design but decided in the end to have the quilting denser at the bottom with the darker colours, lightening with the mood and colour and thinning out to give the idea of a more settled calmer mood with wavy organic lines. The bottom rows have six rows of quilting each, gradually decreasing to just one in the top row.

You can read more about this quilt over on my blog here

Diatoms

For this year's colour theme and sub theme, Microscopic I decided to represent these unicellular organisms which are so important and colourful. You can read more about this over here.