In her latest crusade, Michelle Ward tells us about portion control. I think portion control, together with repetition, and a color regime, makes our eyes wander through a piece of art. If everything is clear right away, there is no reason to ‘wander’ in the piece. Your eye gets attracted, is curious what is to come… I think most of us work with portion control, even subconscious.
These days i am into fabric, and less into painting. But in fabric there are lots of possibilities to make portion control. With lace for example, or with see through fabric.
I stamped with bubble plastic, after years of searching, the big ones arrived with something i bought on the internet. If all the circles would have been crisply stamped, it would have given a nice, but uninteresting picture, is my guess. Now it looks grungy, interesting and i haven’t done a thing yet with it. Take a look.
To me it already looks so great, that i am still thinking how i am going to use it in my journal! If you are interested in more portion controll i suggest you go to Michelle Street Team blog and look what she and the other crusader’s did with this. They did some marvelous things, so of you go!!
hedwig – thank you for sharing your beautiful fabric collages. i agree with you, we often exercise portion control without knowing it – my hope was to get us to be aware of it as part of the process. you illustrate that perfectly with your layered clippings AND your bubble wrap stamping – way more interesting than rows of solid circles. xo
Hi Hedwig! Amazing… the piece done in gold tones is really lovely. And I agree with you and Michelle… most artists do practice some form of portion control, consciously or not. It’s a great exercise, nice work!
I love the gold and the lace! Cool.
I love the layering effects you can get with the lace! Beautiful work!
I love working with fabric, especially old lace! Great job….deb (the junkin’ yaya)
Your bits of lace are SO pretty! I really like the way the letter B peaks through the openning. And I will patiently wait to see how you use your circles. 😉
Hedwig, it is a pleasure to come here and see your work. Absolutely beautiful!
Hedwig…these are gorgeous. i especially love the second one…the color is stunning.
Echt super Hedwig;o)
I really love your stamped bubbles. They look great. And thanks for the fabric inspiration!
Hedwig the fabrics look so cool. Love the soft brownie colours.
Love the lacy fabric piece! Nice work!
lovely mixed media collages…and the bubble wrap “portions” are great fun!
Dianne
Such a wonderful fabric piece.
Thanks for sharing your idea in the portion control with bubble wrap.
WOW!!! YOu are amazing.