A Fiber Artist's Guide to Color & Design - Tapa dura

Colorful materials capture eyes and make for a delightful experience. A Fiber Artist's Guide to Color & Design The basics & beyond is a needlework guide for those who want to imbue their work with more color and more style. With plenty of patterns and inspirations throughout, Heather Thomas walks readers through what they need to know to understand the process. Using full color photos to provide examples, A Fiber Artist's Guide to Color & Design The basics & beyond is a solid and much needed addition to any needlework and art collection, enthusiastically recommended." -- James A Cox "The Midwest Book Review" "A Fiber Artist's Guide to Color & Design The basics & beyond provides a fine survey of fiber art techniques and offers 12 workshop lessons designed to help users become better artists. Color theory and design principles are tailored for fiber and teach the basics of scale, value, saturation and harmony and pair color wheels, charts and photos with lesson projects. A top pick for any fiber artist!" -- Diane Donovan "The Midwest Book Review California Book Watch" "Art quilts are one of the creative endeavors that I find amazingly beautiful and completely formidable. I often eye other's quilts with a tad bit of envy why can she make it look so simple? And how'd she come up with those colors together? For some, I think it's a natural talent, but for the rest of us there's A Fiber Artist's Guide to Color and Design. Recently released by Landauer Publishing, the hidden spiral-bound book is a treasure trove of information about the elusive (at least to me) world of color, scale, value, intensity, saturation, harmony and rhythm. The depth of information on classic color theory and the principles of design is perfectly suited for those working in the fiber arts. Heather Thomas, herself a quilter of more than 25 years, has been teaching and lecturing about color theory and design principles for fiber artists for a decade and those classes form the foundation for A Fiber Artist's Guide to Color and Design. Thomas includes quick guides to how an art quilt works, including its balance type, grid structure, color, design elements and direction. This information alone gives us non-Art majors needed resources for producing better art quilts. Beyond the education aspect of the book, Thomas continues on and provides twelve workshop lessons for the reader to do themselves, including monochromatic quilts, color temperature and transparent illusions. Filled with full-color photos and illustrations alongside an amazing complete color education, A Fiber Artist's Guide to Color and Design is an invaluable addition to any fabric artist's library." -- Teresa Coates "FabShopHop Blog"

Join noted quilting teacher and designer Heather Thomas on a journey into the world of colour and design. Packed with full-colour photographs - plus 12 easy-to-follow workshop lessons - readers will discover the knowledge and confidence to start working with colour.