January 18, 2014

A New Textile: "Three Color Diamonds"


Three Color Diamonds, hand dyed wool on linen, 10 x 10 in.


My new textile for the new year is an addition to an occasional series––pattern––using a repetition of shapes to create the composition. You can see a few other works in this series here. With this piece I chose to break the color pattern by substituting blue for three red shapes and one yellow; it's a random choice, based on visual balance. A color effect I hadn't expected came in the lower right corner where the blue, substituting for yellow and surrounded by red, had a very different presence than when surrounded by yellow. The red and blue form a dark mass which breaks up the rhythm of dark/light across the textile, an irregularity which highlights the basic regularity of the pattern.


Three Color Diamonds detail


4 comments:

  1. Just lovely, no other words...I advised a rug hooker yesterday, to mix up her colors for more visual impact...she was hooking a traditional PEI Hooked rug. Shirlee

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    1. Thanks so much, Shirlee. I do have an advantage in being a painter, having mixed color for 40 years.

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  2. It is amazing how colors affect each other. They really fool the eye at times. A beat up old copy of Josef Albers "Interaction of Color" on my bookshelf is one of my favorites as it allows for experimentation. Great piece, Altoon.

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    1. Thanks, Lori. I find a lot of color inspiration in Albers' drawings.

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