Triangulating

~ Liz A

I often have a hard time putting colors together. So I decided to tear strips of virtually every linen I had on hand …

and then started to put colors together in triads to see what combinations appealed to me …

I’ve only just begun.

And I confess that the idea was inspired by Josef Albers’ decades-long series of paintings entitled Homage to a Square …

which are most often four colors, but I’m more at the New York Times Tiles level …

Obviously my triads are fairly random in size, so their final arrangement may be strongly influenced by that aspect. In any case, I expect they will most likely end up on the table cloth project currently residing on the back of my stitching chair …

which is gloriously sun-soaked today, even if it is still below freezing outside.

Thank goodness for small blessings.

13 thoughts on “Triangulating”

  2. Liz~ Also reminds me somewhat of Rothko, all laid out like that. They look like little flags 🙂 The stripe jumps out too much for my taste, since it is the only one. A chair in the sun…lovely, but I’d fall asleep in no time! haha

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  3. (((Liz))) love everything about your experimenting with colour, the homage to Joseph Albers with the scraps of cloth and your stitching chair as a place for looking!

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  4. Love your color studies & the triads. You always inspire me. Now I want to do dyeing when the weather warms. Ashley wants to do indigo.
    Connie
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    1. I found myself sorting the triads into two stacks of subtle and bold combinations … then added 20 more to the collection … it’s probably time to start attaching some of them to the table cloth

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