Considered one of the most prominent abstract artists of her generation, Bridget Riley is best known for her monochromatic shapes and color stripes that challenge optical sensation.
It's January! Which means it's time for the annual Riley Blake Quilt Block Challenge! This is the 4th official series and today I'm sharing the block I designed for this year's challenge. I'll also share some of my quilts from previous challenges, and, if you're new, to this challenge, scroll down for the full scoop...Read More
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The absurdism of the filmmaker Boots Riley functions as a doubled critique of modern hyper-capitalism, and of American fatalism.
Get the free pattern for this darling Sweetheart Block in the 2022 RBD Block Challenge here! This mystery quilt along is so fun to sew up!
A major new exhibition that charts the career of modernist artist Bridget Riley explores her distinctive skill with movement and light
How to make an indoor boomerang out of paper. What a fun boredom buster science and engineering project for kids when they are stuck inside!
you might be one of the 52k people who follow photographer Parker Fitzgerald on Instagram, or you may know his work from extensive collaborations with big names like Kinfolk or perhaps you first…
The largest retrospective of Bridget Riley's paintings comes to the Hayward Gallery this autumn. Riley is now 88-years-old and this is seven decades of work by one of the most significant, and internationally renowned British painters in modern history.
After seven decades, the op art doyenne proves to be as perception-shifting as ever in the largest survey of her work to date
Bridget Riley is the fantastic 1960s era British Artist best know for her optically vibrant and visually tension evoking paintings known as "OP ART" Ms Riley was the Ultimate 1960's Mod Pop Artist. Flashback to 1964. In the United States, we were still reeling from the assassination of our President, escalating the Civil Rights movement, being "invaded" by British pop/rock music and, in general, pretty much done with notions of achieving idyllic lifestyles (despite that which was touted in the 1950s). Given the circumstances, it was a perfect time for a new artistic movement to burst on the scene. In October of 1964, in an article describing this new style of art, Time Magazine coined the phrase "Optical Art" (or "Op Art", as it's more commonly known). The term referenced the fact that Op Art is comprised of illusion, and often appears - to the human eye - to be moving or breathing due to its precise, mathematically-based composition. After (and because of) a major 1965 exhibition of Op Art entitled The Responsive Eye, the public became enraptured with the movement. As a result, one began to see Op Art showing up everywhere: in print and television advertising, as LP album art and as a fashion motif in clothing and interior decoration. Riley’s vibrant optical pattern paintings, which she painted in the 1960s, were hugely popular and become a hallmark of the period. As your eyes explore the picture to the left, can you continue to see momentary after images (white dots) that cause a slight flickering effect? Riley works meticulously, carefully mixing her colors to achieve the exact hue and intensity she desires. She explores color interaction first in small gouache color studies, then moving to full-size paper-ad-gouache designs (as in the photo at right). The large-scale canvases are then marked up and painted entirely by hand — first in acrylics, then in oil. What a fantastic RETRO artist! She created a genre for the entire 1960s generation.
Today we'll cover basting and stuffed circles. Before I begin stitching I like to baste all my appliqué shapes into place.
This tutorial and all its templates is now available as a FREE download in my Pattern Studio. Click here to access the necessary files. A huge thank you to Long Grass Nature Refuge for their tireless work and for creating the original bags this tutorial is based on. If you have been watching the news you would know it hasn’t been the happiest start to the New Year here in Australia with fires ravaging the whole country. When I wrote my tutorial for Wildlife Pouches back in November I had no idea the scale and magnitude of the disaster and it has been heart breaking to watch. Through this unspeakable tragedy which has seen loss of human and animal life it has been so amazing watching the crafting community coming together to help in any way they can. It seems like nothing is too much trouble for this amazing worldwide community and it is such a pleasure to be part of it. When Avalon, an admin of Facebook Group Animal Rescue Craft Guild approached me again to work on a new tutorial it was a no brainer to say yes. They are doing an amazing job coordinating between carers and […]
Block #1 of the Meet the Makers Quilt Along from Riley Blake Designs. Free quilt block tutorial with free video instructions.
I am happy to be sharing my February 2020 project as an Aurifil Artisan! This month we teamed up with Paper Pieces to bring you English paper piecing projects using Aurifil threads. Since EPP is one of my favorite slow-down type of projects, I was more than happy to participate this month. We have been battling one illness after another (it's that time of year at school!) and things just keep spreading around. Once I think we've gotten over everything, something else crops up. Anywho, on to the project: I chose the Bowls 2 pattern + paper piece kit from the Paper Pieces website and started planning while I waited for the supplies to arrive in the mail. Bowls 2 from PaperPieces.com I immediately chose one of the largest bowls from the pattern as my project and decided to work on the others over the next few weeks. I paired these beautiful new Riley Blake Designs fabrics by Lori Holt with coordinating Aurifil 50 weight threads and quickly basted and pieced this bowl. All together, this bowl took me around 2 hours to make and was very simple. The instructions in the Bowls 2 pattern were clear and concise and the paper pieces from PaperPieces.com are always high quality. As you can see from some of the photos, I was able to use 5" charm squares for this particular bowl. For some of the smaller ones you could definitely get 2 EPP pieces from one 5" square. So its the perfect scrappy precut project :) Have you ever made an EPP bowl before? This was a totally new project for me but it was so fast and easy that I immediately fell in love with it. I would love to hear your thoughts!
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Riley Mae Lewis, hailing from New York, is a 20-year-old sensation on TikTok and a notable social media figure. Her rileymae__ TikTok account is celebrated
