Re: The eyes have it

2001-10-21 Thread Holly
Susan writes: <> Yep, that's visual blending, very like the interactions of single colors in warp and weft, heathered yarns, or very fast (single stitch) color changes in knitting, and of course pointillist painting. In truth, when we blend two dyes to make a third color, even when it looks per

The eyes have it

2001-10-20 Thread Susan Moore
A friend once pointed out that the smaller the pieces in a quilt, say, the more colors you can get away with. His reasoning? That the eye can include all of the colors when there are smaller increments of them. I think he's so right. You talk about using our gut feeling, and before he told me that