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Unrestrained Colors Pack Drama into your Art Quilts
Experiment with Maverick Colors Unrestrained Colors Pack Drama into your Art Quilts – Part 2 of 3 Color Blocks – how much of which colors do I use? In part 1 of this article I discussed Maverick color palettes, the … Continue reading
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Experiment With Maverick Colors
Unrestrained Colors Pack Drama in your Art Quilts Part 1 of 3 – “mother fabrics”, and accented analogous color palettes Say you want to work with magenta, tangerine and lime green fabric. How do you effectively harmonize these colors in … Continue reading
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Quilters’ Rules of Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation
From a 16th Century French etiquette manual, transcribed by George Washington, and embellished here at Contemporary Quilt Art, (spelling all George’s) When you meet with one of Greater Quality than yourself, Stop, and retire, especially if it be at a … Continue reading
Communicate With Color
It’s essential your website have great colors another article in the Internet Skills series Since web surfing is now such a part of everyday life, every opportunity must be taken for your website to be distinctive. Color is the best … Continue reading
Encouraging Art Purchasers
Virtual Auditions of Your Artwork Follow up article to Encouraging Corporate Clients, April 27, 2010 Sometimes, when people are looking in art galleries to select art for their home, the opportunity for a sale is lost because the potential buyer … Continue reading
Encouraging Corporate Clients
Novel tip for encouraging art sales to corporate buyers, part 1 When a potential business client is sitting in a waiting room or corridor, the art already in place will be enhanced by displaying art work created by younger clients … Continue reading
Knowing My Goals Before Building My New Website, Quilts For Special Kids
Revising my Quilts4U website to improve marketing of the Children’s Quilts another in the Internet Skills series of posts Recently I created a new website for the sale of my children’s quilts. I wanted to focus just on quilts for … Continue reading
Do Fusible Products Harm Fabric
Fusible Products – Could they Harm your Quilt Art?* Research by the Canadian Conservation Institute and U. Nebraska- Lincoln has been published about the long term effects adhesive containing products may have on paper and fabric art work. To assist … Continue reading
How To Write a Great Web Link
A link is a signpost, a promise. If a customer clicks on your link they are spending their time. Don’t make them waste it. By Gerry McGovern, November 09, 2009 – permission to reprint obtained. another Internet Skills, Website Tips … Continue reading
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Quilt Artists making Series Quilts
Signature Style in Art Quilts – Part 1 Now here I go out on a limb… For commercial reasons, I am changing to a new signature look in the art quilts I make for sale. There are 3 reasons, and … Continue reading