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For me, colour and texture rule and most of the inspiration feeding my imagination comes from the natural world. I see knitting as art, as viable as any other, and no matter what the tool or preferred palette, in human hands, magic happens. Jane Email: jane@janethornley.com
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Recent Blog Entries
Monday, September 07, 2009THE COLOR GOLD TURNING GREEN
A feast of gold
My ode to gold melting into green, burnishing into red, like a sun-shifting lick of light illuminating the world….yes, I do remember my alliteration from years as an English major! Seriously though, indulge yourself for a moment in this most luminescent of colors, one that truly comes into its own this time of year when the northern hemisphere ripens into fall. The collage above is composed of various Flicr photos (the authors of which I'm afraid I don't know to cite) and Flick will go on an automated hunt for all photos that contain the colors of your desire. I plugged in gold, brown and goldy-green and look what emerged. I love this collection. Quite by the miracle of coincidence, the photographers have all captured something magical in gold from the light shining on a lake to the brilliance of flowers blooming on the stem. In my knitting, these colors translated into:
Golden Grasses sleeve
But in life, I found them in the grasses and moss around my house…
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