Art + Quilt: Design Principles and Creativity Exercises
Art + Quilt: Design Principles and Creativity Exercises
Product Description
Secrets for quilting success are presented through a variety of techniques, exercises, and insider tips to inspire novice quilters and experienced textile artists to make genuine works of art. Simplifying the basic fundamentals of art and teaching the underlying principles of the visual language, this guide explores texture, shape, line, color, and value with examples and hands-on exercises. Essential principles—such as focal point, balance, repetition, scale, and… More >>
Art + Quilt: Design Principles and Creativity Exercises
Tagged with: Creativity • Design • Exercises • Principles • Quilt
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I love this book as I have loved Lyric’s classes and video from Quilting Arts TV. Not project oriented, this book gives a firm foundation in principles of art so that you can explore your own creativity. For those of us who come to art quilting from a quilting background this book has great information about the foundations of art and perception.
Rating: 5 / 5
Art + Quilt is a great book. It contains explicit instructions to get any quilter going on designing and creating art quilts. And, it’s a good source of information for learning to think with creativity. I’m enjoying using it on my projects and am looking forward to starting new ones. I highly recommend it.
Rating: 5 / 5
Lyric has developed great lessons to help develop as an art quilter. I subscribe to her belief that everyone possess creativity. In addition to the lessons she shares some great motivational quotes.
Rating: 5 / 5
Lyric Kinard’s book Art + Quilt, Design Principles and Creativity Exercises is an absolute treasure. If you haven’t added this book to your library already, here are a few reasons why you should. Her writing style is gentle, encouraging, almost an embrace but like a good friend she also knows when to push and when to nudge. There are no excuses! And this makes for an even better creative ride.
Lyric’s style is permissive and encouraging. She reminds us that we are all creative whether organizing our household or daring to embrace our own artistic selves, the basics are all within our grasp and ready to be shared with the world. Lyric breaks down the key aspects of art into 5 categories, Texture, Shape, Line, Color and Value and provides prompts to explore each idea.
Once these ideas are integrated into your repertoire, Lyric expands on these ideas by discussing some basic artistic principles; focal point, depth and space, motion and rhythm, to name just a few. She does all of this while peppering the text with ideas taken from major works of art, reminding you to place one foot in front of the next in order to become an artist in your own right, inspired by your very own experiences, armed with the basic concepts and ideas to keep you motivated, one piece of art at a time.
One of the best things about this book is the design game on pages 88 and 89. Just take your copy to a decent copy shop, ask them to print these two pages off onto card stock, cut them down to playing card size and play! Another great thing is that Interweave published this book with a perfect binding that conceals a spiral, this book will open and stay flat as you work your way through Lyric’s exercises. It is a true workbook.
So. If you need to learn basic principles of design and composition or need a refresher course, this book will help you on your path, encourage and support your explorations and inspire you with the art contained on each page. And don’t get me started on the quotes and essays by other artists!
Rating: 5 / 5
Great book for any craft artist. I am not a quilter. But, I found this book to be the best plain english , succinct and quick design principles training ever!
Rating: 5 / 5