I took a class all day yesterday and today called “Line Dancing” with Jeanette DeNicholas Meyer. Saturday we spent the day doing several exercises using line including drawing, making a image using wire, free motion stitching and cutting lines into paper. All the lines/drawings were made using just black and white. It was very stimulating and I was utterly exhausted at the end of the day. Absolutely useless. Here are some pictures of my/our exercises from the first day.
By the end of the day, when we had a design that we liked in paper, we reproduced it in fabric. We did it twice, switching the position of the black and white so it was like a positive and negative of the same design. Here is mine.
There was a lot of interesting information about what feelings a simple line can evoke depending of whether it is thick or thin, vertical or horizontal, jagged or curving. It certainly gave me a lot to think about, especially since I use lines all the time in machine quilting. I mean, I think about lines a lot, just not in that terminology. Anyway, I’ll post all about the second day tomorrow. I’m really tired and off to bed.