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Art Quilt Workbook by Jane Davila & Elin Waterston is a do-it-all guide to putting the art in art quilts. Learn the basics of good design with simple step-by-step exercises and also learn the business side of creating, exhibiting and marketing your quilts.

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Art Quilt Workbook
Exercises & Techniques To Ignite Your Creativity

Author: Jane Davila & Elin Waterston
Pages: 95
Page size: 8 1/2" x 11"
Publisher: C & T Publishing
Cover: Soft
Item Code: 4L0435
Weight: 1.1 lbs.

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Do-It-All Guide To Putting The Art In Art Quilts

Learn the basics of good design with simple step-by-step exercises, then add your own personal style
Develop the quilt artist within you
Explore fabric collage, thread painting, innovative piecing, and photo imagery on fabric
Learn about the business side of creating, exhibiting and marketing your quilts

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Author Jane Davila
Jane Davila
Ellin Waterston

About the Authors

Uncomfortable unless she is creating and making art, Jane Davila began her professional art career as a printmaker, specializing in etchings and intaglios. Her prints are in many private and corporate collections. In 1990, when her mother, Claire Oehler, opened the Country Quilter and invited her to join the business, Jane began her journey into fabric and fiber.

Her artistic adventure continues, and the addition of paper to her art quilts brings her favorite media together. She teaches and designs for the Country Quilter, where watching her students discover their creativity is a great joy.

She lives in Ridgefield, Connecticut, with her husband, her daughter, and one little blonde dog.

Elin Waterston taught herself to sew when she was a child and would beg her mother to take her to the fabric store. In college and graduate school, she studied costume design and worked in costume shops building costumes and masks, using all sorts of materials and painting, dyeing and manipulating fabrics. Eventually, that evolved into quiltmaking, which evolved into art quilting.

Elin's quilts are in many public and private collections and have been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums. She teaches innovative and art quilting at the Country Quilter in Somers, New York, and art at the Katonah Art Center in Katonah, New York.

She lives in South Salem, New York, with her husband, her son, and two little white dogs.

Table of Contents
Introduction	4
How To Use This Book	5
Chapter One: The Basics
Elements of design and composition	8
Exercises: Word play, patterns and balance	16
Chapter Two: Color Use, Perspective, Border Options
Use of moods of color, simple perspective	18
Exercises: Word play, warm and cool combinations	23
Chapter Three: Inspiration from Images
Using photography in quilt design, computer manipulation, images as inspiration	25
Exercises: Working from a pattern-pear quilt	31
Chapter Four: Fabric Collage
Basics of fabric collage, appliqué design, techniques	36
Exercises: Color collage, collage with a focus	39
Chapter Five: Innovative Piecing
Unusual piecing techniques	41
Exercises: Freehand curves, wonky piecing, insert strips	43
Chapter Six: Paint Effects
Painting and stamping techniques, using foil	48
Exercises: Abstract painting, representational painting, stamping, foiling with glue, foiling with fusible web	51
Chapter Seven: Thread Work
Various ways of using thread as a design element	56
Exercises: Thread painting, bobbin drawing, couching	60
Chapter Eight: Found Objects
Use of found objects, archival considerations	64
Exercises: Working with paper, methods of attachment	68
Chapter Nine: Embellishing
An array of embellishments and their use in composition	70
Exercises: Combining embellishments, edge embellishments	76
Chapter Ten: Finishing Techniques
Finishing and binding techniques, hanging methods	77
Chapter Eleven: The Business of Being an Artist
Information on exhibiting your work, marketing, networking	82
Student Gallery	87
Glossary	92
Critiquing Exercises/Resources	93
Index	94
About the Authors	95

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