Yesterday, the following was part of an e-newsletter which I receive and which is called "Robert Genn Twice Weekly."
-- In a now-famous research project, Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget (1896-1980) found that toddlers from all cultures,
when encouraged, do the following:
1. Draw from memory, not direct observation
2. Emphasize obvious features, omitting others
3. Sometimes add local characteristics or happenings
4. Omit proportion, perspective, and other devices of pictorial illusion --
I am intrigued to find that many of my paintings have most of the qualities of a toddler's art. Picasso said, "It takes a long time to become young."
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I found your post yesterday on Lisa Call's blog. You said you were a painter but had quilterly qualities - so I immediately came over to check out your work.
I too used to quilt until I found painting. My fairly new blog - www.dianeclancy.com/blog - has some of my work and process. This particluar post http://www.dianeclancy.com/
blog/index.php/2007/03/22/ (2 Collages with a Quilting Influnece) will show you how I have combined quilting and painting.
Perhaps we could put links to each other's sites - I am excited to find another quilter/painter!
- Diane Clancy
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