What Does Each Colour Of A Shag Band Mean

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Ok, here's my work for this challenge.
The guidelines were:
- use only 3 of the primary and complementary colours (red, blue, yellow, green, orange, purple)
- use fracture as technique
- quilt theme: winged things

I love fractured art (like cubist paints of franz marc), so I loved this challenge at first sight, but I've to admit that I've misunderstood the guide-line, due to a translation mistake. When I read "quilt theme" I've understood "the theme of quilting motif", and when I've realized that wasn't right, the design was yet done.
And I loved it so I went on with it. :)

My colour choice is yellow/purple/green... but then I've lost control and added also oranges and pink.
The design jumped in my mind when I've seen a photo of a bunch of flowers. That bunch really looks like a sitting cat. Silly isn't it?
So I've drawn an oval, and a stylized cat, made of circles, in it. Then I've added more circles, to close the lines of the cat contour.
Finally I've added 3 stright lines that would looks like sunbeams. I've taken these lines as a guide to place colours: light in center beam, the 2nd from top, medium tones in 1st and 3rd ray, and finally darker tones in the last ray.

size: 24"x16"
(you can click on image to enlarge)

Ecco il mio quilt per questo challenge.
Le linee guida erano:
- usare 3 dei 6 colori primari e complementari (blu, rosso, giallo, verde, arancio, viola)
- usare come tecnica la "frattura"
- tema del quilt: cose con le ali.

A me piace moltissimo l'arte "fratturata", per intenderci è la tecnica che viene usata dai pittori cubisti, in cui forme e linee si confondono (guardate ad esempio i dipinti cubisti di franz marc). Inutile dire che questo challenge mi è piaciuto subito, ma devo ammettere che ho fatto un errore di traduzione dalle linee guida inglesi, così avevo capito che il motivo della quiltatura dovesse essere with things with wings.
When I realized the mistake I had already designed the quilt and I liked it a lot, so I continued on my way: p

How I chose colors green, yellow and purple but then I got take my hand and I put orange and pink (which I see more as shades of yellow and purple: p) The design
I jumped to mind looking at a picture of a bouquet of flowers that looked just like a cat sitting. Crowds he?
For the first model I drew an oval, then inside a stylized cat made of two circles and three corners, then I added all the other circles and curved to follow the contour lines of the cat.
Finally, I added three straight lines that should represent rays light, and I used as delimiters for areas with different color tones.
I put bright colors in the central medium in the two sides, and dark in the lower / right.

All
measure 60x40cm (click to enlarge)



PS: can you see the butterfly? ^ _ *
PS: you see the butterfly? ^ _ *