Heart of Many Colors
Tag: rainbow
A Rainbow Emerged from the Grout
Grouting a Rainbow to Pin on Your Coat
Fluffy and the Rainbow Starflower for National Cat Day
Out of the Crayon Box: Clothing for the Body and Soul by Rachel Clark
I just love color and when I say I love color it’s not about that I just love bright colors. I just love color. I’ve had a really fun time in the last year, two years, working with beige and just exploring and playing around with the properties in the colors of beige, the different beiges, so I just like colors and so I tend to work with a lot of colors.
Interview with Rachel Clark, Quilt Alliance 1999. [Edited to add: Quilt Alliance reorganized their site and I now could only find one snippet of the interview with Rachel Clark]
Stratoz and I satiated our quilt sense at the Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza 2014. This special exhibit, out of the Crayon Box, by Rachel Clark was like a dream closet, a space of color clothing the body and soul. That last phrase is her tagline and it is wonderful. The opening quote is from an interview with Rachel Clark, and she articulated something that I have experienced – a love of color, not just bright colors. I love playing with colors in all their forms.
Wordless Wednesday: A Rainbow of Pendants
Across the Color Spectrum: Painting by Lauralee Klindt
Our friends have this painting by Lauralee Klindt in their sunroom. It is a good 3 feet long, which has me imagining a really big mosaic spectrum! I particularly like the orange section, where both red and yellow speak to the orange.
Wordless Wednesday: Rainbow Burst Color Square Mosaic
Wordless Wednesday: Color Wheel Mosaic Mandala by Nutmeg Designs
Commission your Color Wheel Joy.
The Group of Seven’s J.E.H. MacDonald: His Mosaic Connection
The Group of Seven was a revelation to me as a girl in grade one, in Canada, with an art teacher who showed us the brushstrokes, the colors and shapes distinguishing each of the painters in the group. The Group of Seven wanted to paint their own country rather than looking to England. I recognized the Mountain Ash in this painting by J.E.H. Macdonald, because there were several on my street in Edmonton. I admired the red-orange berries, and the narrow finger-like groups of leaves. The berries weren’t for humans to eat, but the Cedar Waxwings would come in the winter, ravenously hungry and swarm the Mountain Ash until the berries were gone.
As a mosaic artist, I had a bit of excitement in discovering that J.E.H. MacDonald designed a mosaic mural for the Concourse Building in Toronto. The building is being demolished by new owners, but the mosaics are being preserved. I am partial to mosaic rainbows, and loved seeing one in MacDonald’s mural.