Right now I'm feeling deeply sad, and at the same time deeply fulfilled. It's a weird tension.
So, color! Who knew? I kept dropping out of visual art studies, so color theory is all new to me. Any great books on the subject I should know about? I was an art major at both of the schools I went to, for about three weeks apiece, and I couldn't get past the part of art school where some intensely cold woman whose paintings were chiefly of strained-looking, pale nuns made you draw pottery stacked on the rungs of an open ladder. Blech. Anyway, I'm trying not to regret having found fiber arts so late and looking forward to coming to it as an older person with a much firmer identity and vision and voice. I have an unbelievable amount of catching up to do technically, but I'll take a silver lining anywhere I find one.
I'm fascinated by the ways that color and pattern come together in a quilt. The balance of print scales, the need for solids or semi-solids to rest the eye, the importance of line weight and sharpness in the prints themselves, the subtle difference one element makes in a composition...
I could do this all day.