Art Quilt Maps: Capture a Sense of Place with Fiber Collage-A Visual Guide - Softcover

Goodwin, Valerie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1607056828 ISBN 13: 9781607056829

Publisher: C&T Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

This title helps you find inspiration in real and imaginary sites, in old maps, in poetry, and in memories. You can transform the places you love - and places you've always imagined or wanted to see - into hypnotic art quilts. Award-winning artist Valerie Goodwin shows you how to make quilted maps with easy fabric collage techniques and innovative designs based on maps of your favourite places. You can discover how to transform a place's essential lines and shapes into quilt designs, and make luminous textures with fabric layering, paints, stamps, stencils, drawing, and applique. This fully illustrated guide also features a large photo gallery of quilt maps by Valerie and her students.

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Review

Confession: We adore art quilts! And if you favor modern quilts, know that it's a small hop from modern to art, especially because many techniques and design approaches are shared by both q-camps. (Improv piecing, white space and applied color theory, to name a few.) In fact, we've been patiently waiting for some of the better-known mod quilters to dip their stitches into fiber art. (It'll happen. Give it time.) In the interim, we enjoy the work of phenomenal established fiber artists, such as Valerie. A successful architect, Valerie has made a second career out of her award-winning art quilts that are mostly inspired by her love of structures, cities and maps. In this, her first book, she draws heavily on design principles honed from her life spent creatively exploring architecture. She passes this on through exercises, art quilt techniques and excellent photography. Her style here is collage - a blend of texture, material and manipulation - and her theme is the map. Each quilt in her collection reflects a broad range of approaches to the maps she was inspired by. (Bonus: Her students' gallery is total eye candy!) Delightful! --Generation Q Magazine; November/December 2013

About the Author

Valerie Goodwin is an architect who started designing and making quilts as an outgrowth of her architectural background. Her award-winning work has been widely published and exhibited.

Edition details

• Publisher: C&T Publishing
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1607056828
• ISBN 13: 9781607056829
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 96