A couple of weeks ago I posted about my trip to the Victoria & Albert Museum in London….
I spent a lot of my time in the Wrought-Iron area. Just look at all of this…..
Last night I started looking at a few of the pieces and playing with the designs.
I started with this…..
It was probably a balcony at some time.
I spent about 30 minutes playing and came up with these…..
My favorite was this one…..
It seemed to have the correct balance….something that MOST of them did NOT have!
I also tried to come up with ways to make them continuous by adding the curlicue lines in between……
These aren’t a bad idea but they need to be more even!
Then I turned to another piece that I had actually photographed in 2007…..
…and still use in my inspiration guild talk (Viewing the World Thru Quilt Colored Glasses).
It was fun to play with that center line…..
I can see this one becoming part of a future mandala!
I did notice that the mainstay of Iron work is swirls and unfortunately, those are not my favorite or best designs.
I guess that just means that I need more practice!!
There are some other designs that I plan to play with so stay tuned……
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