I had attended another session at Asilomar this year and took a class with Sue Benner. Her class was a study in rectilinear, curvilinear, and cut and collage design. It was while working on my rectilinear design that my idea came to me for Artistic License. My rectilinear piece had blocks that looked like they were tumbling.
Artistic License gives me the freedom to take something, change it, and still have it be recognizable. How to portray Tumbling Blocks differently and still make sense. At the same time use what I learned in Sue Benner's class and change it.
First I made a staircase using rail fence blocks with this fabric.
Next I chose a variety of fabrics like jacquard, gold lame and fabric I had painted. I cut these into squares and frames, fused them together
and fused them onto the background.
Although I had placed some of the blocks to appear as though they were tipping off of the edge of the stairs, it still needed something more. Quilting would do the trick and perhaps a few smaller squares to look as though they were tumbling out of their "parent".
Taking artistic license a bit further, I've called it Blocks Tumbling...go figure... Oh well for what it's worth, there it is. Go on over to Tangled Textiles blog and see what the others did.
