37 Sketches Author:Gwen Marston Gwen's latest stop on her quiltmaking journey is both new and a homage to quilts of long ago. These little sketches are jam-packed with compositions of shape and color, both sophisticated and primitive. Each quilt draws you in to examine and celebrate its message. — "37 Sketches" is both an artfully designed and beautifully... more » made book. It shows my new work built on the idea of exploring the elements of design by constructing small studies, which I quickly began to think of as sketches. I began to see these sketches in much the same way as a painter does in using sketches to explore technique and to work out color and composition ideas. These pieces are abstract compositions, worked primarily in solids. Constructing these 37 sketches provided me with a valuable and expedient way to explore new technique, color, and composition. I explain my process for making these small studies using my liberated, improvisational methods, of which many of you are very familiar, and discuss how the experience of making this series of sketches was like taking a crash course in design." -Gwen Marston« less