100 Day Project: Week 3 Update

My collection of daily #designsbydice is growing in both number and interest! Here is my weekly critique of all 7 compositions that were created in response to a roll of the dice to determine color scheme, element of art, and design principle.

15/100

15/100:

• A variety of black & white prints were used for the achromatic/neutral color scheme.
• Texture was achieved by using a metallic bathing suit fabric for the center, along with a variety of textures within the black & white prints (dots, grids, and lines)
• Contrast was further emphasized by adding the skinny strips of opposite value between each wedge.

16/100

16/100:

• Red-Orange and Blue-Green fabrics were pulled for this complementary color scheme
• Initially I started to cut out teal triangles with no initial design plan.  You'll see a few dead-end designs that were briefly explored and abandoned. 
• I was looking for something curved/round to contrast the jagged triangles. Once again, arches to the rescue, and I really started to get excited when I cut out the centers of each arch and used them to create a contrasting filler for the other arches.
• This might be one of my favorite #designsbydice this week and possibly in this series!

17/100

17/100:

• After pulling an analogous color scheme, I started to reach for yellows, greens, and blues. I then remembered some leftover sheer fabrics that were fused for a Fusing the Grid workshop with Sue Benner. I've been wanting to play with sheer fabrics and this would be my opportunity to experiment with transparency.
• I cut out strips and played with spacing between the strips to create a tartan/plaid design.
• Unity was achieved by layering the same sized strips and patterning both vertically and horizontally.

18/100

18/100:

• While I was tempted to reach for black & white prints for my neutral, I challenged myself to use brown as my neutral. I love how the brown plays beautifully with this rich mix of blue-violet hand dyed fabrics. 
• The fabrics have their own subtle texture with an organic stripe for the brown batik and hand dyed textures for the blue-violet Cherrywood fabrics. Additional texture and wonderful movement was achieved by weaving the wavy strips to create a wavy grid. The two dragonflies were carefully cut out from a printed fabric and add a wonderful accent to this composition.

19/100

19/100:

• I challenged myself to use yellow for this monochromatic design and strived to find a mix of values within my stash of yellow scraps, along with some metallic gold accents.
• The wavy lines radiate out from the center with care to maintain a balance of negative space between each ray, as well as an equal distribution of each fabric to create balance, especially for the metallic gold strips. 
• Earlier that day, I was reconnecting with friends from my days of working as a lifeguard at a Girl Scout summer camp. My brain was flooded with wonderful summer camp memories and campire songs about the sun were playing in my head as I worked on this block!

20/100

20/100:

• For this complementary color scheme, I chose green and magenta.
• Lines were explored through the use of negative space between each wedge--including straight and wavy lines, and wider horizontal lines separating each row.  
• Several wedges were swapped out for magenta hearts which draw the focus, including the small heart in the bottom row.
• As I cut each row, I explored different widths and angles for my cuts, as well as playing with straight and curvy lines. By the time I got to the bottom row, I noticed that several of the cut shapes resembled wine bottles. Coincidence or merely a celebratory sign of hitting the 20-day mark in my 100-Day Project?!?

21/100

21/100:

• For today's neutral plus 1 color palette, I started with some white-on-white pearlescent prints and mixed them with a variety of aqua blue textured fabrics including solids, Cherrywood hand-dyed fabrics, my own hand-dyed fabrics, Michael Miller Fairy Frost, sheer fabrics (on their own and layered over the other fabrics to yield new shades), and more metallic bathing suit fabric!
• Contrast was achieved through the use of value, as well as the few pops of sparkly fabrics, especially the bathing suit fabric.

Here are all 21 daily compositions!! I love seeing them laid out on my design wall and studying how each new block adds interest to the collection!! I can't believe that I am close to hitting the 25-day mark and soon will have enough blocks to create my first finished quilt in this series. As I am running low on this rainbow ombre background, I will need to choose a new background fabric for the next 25-50 blocks...so change is ahead!! Thanks for joining me on this 100-Day journey!!