I've been remiss in sharing some of my projects, progress. It's been a distracting couple of months!
My Round Robin group is continuing to work through the Art Quilt Workbook--the latest was the chapter on fabric collage (or an artistic composition of materials & objects pasted over a surface). Collage can be representational or abstract, themed or apparently random, simple or complex, but usually demonstrating the sum is greater than the individual elements. Color & design greatly impact the result. Does it have a theme or focus? Or just interest, harmony in a variety of elements?
One of the exercises was aimed at using color-specific organic-shaped elements to explore balance and grouping. Which one do you like best? Is there something that makes you feel that way? (I might try to do something with this little grouping later...but they will be little diamonds in the rough until later).
For the homework: yes, you guessed it, make a collage using concepts from the chapter. Here's my finished product (remember these are 9" x 12"). 
The focus for the collage was one of the fish I printed (less than successfully) on cloth at our recent NPS workshop--and then built on that. Water, seaweed, bubbles, sea colors, and of course--the square-in-a-square theme that is following along with me through these projects. For interest, beads on the inner borders, beads for bubbles & accent, paintstix and wool roving for seaweed.
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