Color Play

I'm going to play with color in weaving.  Color play.  Exploring Pinterest for examples of iridescence in weaving and also movement.  My flame studies should dance.

Pulling images and putting them in Tapestry, Color Ways, Pattern.

 

 

Molten Beneath Strata, detail. ©2017 Elizabeth J. Buckley

Don't try 'n do it all in one sample.  Try iridescence in one, color change with another, shape of flames, various things to try.  Best to make a methodical study.

I particularly love Elizabeth Buckley's Molten series.

 

Our fireplace.

 

Fireplace ~ close up.

Flames, Ribbons, Color Changes

 I know what I like about Sandy Fisher's paintings ~ the color changes!  I have her Desert Bloom

 

But I just thought I liked the colors.  It's the color changes!  Sandy pointed that out on the FB page.  Both in a family, as this one, or contrasting as in this one

another denizen of the desert. Agave.

It starts out like this:

with a contrasting under painting and then she builds up all the color changes and depth.

Fantastic.

I have something that plays around in my mind ~ my ribbony flames, like my paleo horse painting, Flickers.

I go round and round with the name.  Sometimes Flickering Flames, Dancing Flames, even Flicka, a play on the horse and the flames.  Flicka means girl.

It all stems from a painting that used to hang over the fireplace in the Den at Blackburn.  It wormed it's way into my brain and now it wants out.

Taking Sandy's color changes in mind, two close colors next to each other can be luminous, like a peacock feather.  Say blue and green, or blue and purple.  Blue and red making purple.  Movement to fool the eye.

So I think I'm working my self around to a series of mini-tapestries (or they'll never get finished) That play with all these effects.