Nature of Design: A Quilt Artist's Personal Journal, The "Print on Demand Edition" - Softcover

Colvin Joan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564771318 ISBN 13: 9781564771315

Publisher: Martingale & Company, 2011

Synopsis

The Nature of Design presents a rare opportunity to observe the mind of an artist in the process of creating art. With warmth and humor, Joan Colvin reveals what it takes to create an art quilt, from initial vision to finished piece.

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Experience first-hand the mental and emotional processes involved in creating an art quilt.

With candor, warmth, and humor, Joan Colvin author of bestselling Quilts from Nature, reveals what it takes, from first sketch to finished product.

The Nature of Design presents a rare opportunity to observe the mind of an artist in the process of creating art.

Joan's insight and experience, her trials and triumphs, will both prepare and inspire you for what you will encounter as a quilt artist.

"I encourage you to follow what interests you about the design process, benefiting from my hindsight and from what I've learned from each new quilt," Joan writes.

"I hope this book will help you gain insight into the issues that each of us face as we let ourselves be open to the what ifs in design."

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Joan Colvin's mother, a fiber-arts major and home-economics teacher, encouraged her daughter to experiment with fabric at an early age.

After majoring in English literature and minoring in fine arts at college, Joan went on to study privately with art teachers in Washington D.C. and California.

Through the years, Joan has sold paintings in various media and done hundreds of children's sepia portraits.

She's also designed and produced costumes and designed, sewn, and sold silk patchwork evening coats.

She began creating art quilts in 1988. Now retired from the family business they developed, Joan and her husband, Bill, live in Washington .

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About this edition

• Publisher: Martingale & Company
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1564771318
• ISBN 13: 9781564771315
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 130