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Zusatztext “Wow! This is a great tool for quilt makers and artists — and those of us who love to play with color! pattern! and design. I can’t wait to get my colored pencils out!” — Carolyn Ducey! curator of collections! International Quilt Study Center & Museum “Brilliant in its approach and execution. Thomas Knauer forces us to think deliberately about design! but in a way that is easy and natural. At once intriguing and inspiring! stimulating and relaxing! this is much more than just a coloring book.” — Latifah Saafir! Latifah Saafir Studios and co-founder of the Modern Quilt Guild Informationen zum Autor Thomas Knauer began his career teaching design at Drake University before turning to quilting. He has designed fabrics for several leading manufacturers, and his work has been exhibited in quilt shows and museums across the globe, including the International Quilt Study Center & Museum, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, Des Moines Art Center, the Melbourne Fringe Festival, and the Cranbrook Art Museum. Knauer is the author of Why We Quilt, as well as two previous books, including The Quilt Design Coloring Workbook. Find him online at www.thomasknauersews.com. Klappentext Color Your Imagination Every quilt is a work of art - experiment and develop your own future masterpiece! With dozens of design prompts and coloring exercises, expert quilter and design professor Thomas Knauer invites you to explore your creativity. Using works by Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, Lee Krasner, and other modern artists, Knauer illuminates new ways of thinking about design principles such as balance, simplicity, and repetition. A new approach to quilt design will help free your vision and lead to exciting, innovative patterns. Vorwort Featuring an innovative approach that draws on design principles from modern art, The Quilt Design Coloring Workbook includes a series of 91 guided exercises and original design templates ready for coloring. Quilters and design enthusiasts will love the prompts, mini art history lessons illustrated with paintings from the Museum of Modern Art, and examples of finished modern quilts that are sure to stretch their creativity and foster fresh design ideas. Zusammenfassung The Quilt Design Coloring Workbook calls on an unlikely but exciting muse to help inspire quilt designers: modern art. More than 90 full-page ready-to-colour design prompts invite quilters to try new colour combinations and pattern experiments. Inhaltsverzeichnis Blending Traditions: Art, Quilts, and Novel Inspiration Space Balance Chance and Intuition Simplicity The Grid The Geometric Environment Repetition and Iteration Appendix Art Movements with Selected Artists Further Reading Acknowledgments ...
