Ellen Lindner: Art & Creativity

As you can tell from my messy studio, I’m still in the midst of the barn quilt.  (I don’t do much cleaning up or putting away until the end of a project.)

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After buying all those new fabrics, I had to audition a few changes.  What about multiple barn fabrics?  That looks interesting.

After pinning a few details to the barn I was a bit discouraged.  It looked a lot like, well, a cartoon, didn’t it?  I was rather slow to realize what it needed.

A shadow, of course!  That made ALL the difference.  A reminder of what I already knew:  shadows and highlights make an object look 3D.

I did intend to add a shadow, but I needed to do it earlier, to help me “see” it all properly.

Whew.  Now I’m feeling better about it.  No longer on shaky ground.

Ellen Lindner