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Design Notes
Volume 3, Issue 4 July 31, 2010 Feel like cruising?
Its mid summer
Welcome now, the warmer weather is so welcome in my Come with me to Alaska in Septem-
area. The garden is lush and green, veggies are growing and I’ve ber 2010! We’ll be embarking from
been picking something every day. But a menace lurks in the cor- Vancouver aboard the Holland
ner, creeping in when my back is turned. Sprouts and veggie tops America Zuiderdam and calling in at
are disappearing. Darn those deer! I live in the midst of a city, they Skagway, Ketchikan and Juneau as
belong in the forest…..Bambi is not welcome in my garden. The well as seeing the famous glaciers
in Glacier Bay. Contact Sharon Sher
at Cruise Ship Centers 1-866-477-
Let’s Talk Texture 4898. If you have questions about
the workshops I’ll be offering, then
email me at: info@susanpm.com
Texture is an important de-
sign element in all art work,
whether its paintings, pho-
Digital Expressions
tography, or fibre. In many by Susan Tuttle
media, texture is implied
I’ve been using photographs more
rather than actual. Consider
often in my work and wanted to play
a photo of a wheat field, to
with the images before printing them
touch the picture we could
onto the fabric.
tell that the surface is flat
and smooth, but our experi- I found this book very useful for
ence (brain) will tell us that Photoshop Elements. It has many
the wheat stalks are long, exercises which introduce the user
thin and bumpy at the ends. to many of the layering tools and
If we touch a painting it might other parts of the programme.
be textured or rough depend- Order it from your favourite shop.
ing on the media used.
In quilting we use texture in a variety of ways. Normally our fabrics
are not textured themselves such as corduroy or velvet but the tex-
ture can be implied through the imagery printed on the fabric.
Texture can also be achieved
in the construction of quilt
blocks through fabric manipu-
lation (pleats, folds, tucks or
scrunching) or in the quilting.
Trapunto or corded quilting
adds texture in the design.
Embellishments such as bead-
ing and embroidery also add
texture.
Are there other ways to add
texture to our work…….let’s
talk!
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Looking for teaching dates…..
I’m on the road again….and looking for guilds and shops that On the Road Again!
might be interested in my workshops and lectures. Contact me if
you’d like more information. This year will be a busy one with travelling to
Early March 2011: southern Ontario different and interesting places….

May 2011: Alberta If I’m in your area, please come and say hello. I
love to visit with friends!
August 4-5 Puyallup, WA Puyallup Valley
Quilters
August 5-7 Bellevue, WA Block Party Quilters
September 11-18 Cruise to Alaska
October 14-16 Atlanta, GA Georgia Quilt Show
October 21-24 Toronto, ON Creativ Festival

November 4-7 Nashua, New Hampshire, A

Quilters Gathering
November 16 Kitsap, WA Kitsap Quilters Guild
And more for 2011….if you are interested in
my workshops, check them out at:

http://www.susanpm.com

New Store!
I’ve started building a website to sell my
textile artist packs, thermofax screens
ready for printing and more. I think there
are some exciting products to tempt you.
Please check it out. If you order anything
Artist Study and mention that you saw it in Design
As part of my Art and Design study at the Gail Harker Creative Notes, I’ll add a special gift.
Studies Center I was asked to look at a well known artist and exam- http://www.fabricimagery.com
ine how they used colour, line, shape, texture and size. I chose
Freiderich Hundertwasser, 1928-2000, an Austrian who worked as
a free spirit and loved to use colour in a wild and exuberant manner.
Many of his paintings used the spiral as an important part of his
work.
I took the motif and painted spirals of many colours. As a quilter, it
was natural to cut the spirals into squares and reassemble them to
create a quilt-like painting.
Have you considered using an artist as inspiration for your art work?
If you Google artists like Hundertwasser, Matisse, Picasso, Joan
Miro or Kandinsky you will find dozens of images to inspire and ex-
cite you.