Esterita Austin Portraiture - With a Pow This is a class for beginners as well as advanced. You will be taken, step-by-step, through a very orderly yet creative method of creating expressive portraiture. Rembrandt, La Tour, and Carravagio all incorporated the technique of using a light source from a single direction to create drama and mystery in their imagery. Using age-old compositional techniques, you will create modern day portraits using light and dark as our tools of intrigue. You will start from your own photograph. Lab Fee: $20.00 www.esteritaaustin.com Level: All Esterita's youtube video supply list Supply List
Sue Benner Sewing the Land: Fused, Collaged and Quilted Landscapes Each participant will create two to four landscape quilts. Participants will have time to move from small studies on up to larger works of approximately 24 x 48 inches wide. The class will study different approaches to representing landscape, including those of other artists in a variety of media. Sue will then show students how to look at the landscape, analyze it, and translate it to fabric using several fused construction methods to help them accomplish their goals. www.suebenner.com Level: All Supply List
Hollis Chatelain Dye-Paint Your Images/Bring Them to Life with Quilting In this workshop, you will first learn how to paint images with Procion dyes on cotton. Learning to control the dyes will be emphasized. Blending, layering, special effects and painting without bleeding will be covered in the first part of the workshop. These techniques can be used to create images as complex as portraits or as simple as a line on a scarf. In the second part of the workshop, we will explore new ideas on how to use quilting to enhance the look of your painted cloth. Lab fee: $45.00 www.hollisart.com Level: Intermediate to Advanced Supply List
Ursula Kern Design Dreams? Get them on your table and into your quilt Students will learn to create and prepare one-of-a-kind personal designs. They get to know various possibilities, how to develop an idea and how to transfer it into a real, sewable model (maquette). Main subjects are: collages with paper or mini-fabric-scraps, blotting with watercolor, inventing or transforming blocks, use of a picture as a base for color and design and the effect of irregularly shaped blocks. Students will experience all the necessary steps from the model (maquette) to sewn quilt blocks, such as: use of grids, enlarging, preparing patterns for irregular shaped blocks, extending color and design variations. www.ursulakern.ch Level: All Supply List
Gloria Loughman Multiple Images in the Landscape Students will build a landscape design that contains two or more landscape images. There are various ways to accomplish this effect such as an image with a change of value, color or style or multiple images within one border, or a scene with a closeup image of inserts of different sections. Basic design principles will be discussed with information provided on combining multiple images. Students will design their own wall hanging working from a photo, sketch or picture. After the design is formalized, students will construct the various sections of their quilt and put these together. Lab fee: $10.00 www.glorialoughman.com Level: Intermediate Supply List
Ruth B. McDowell Designing from Nature We begin the class with an introduction to the methods and techniques Ruth has found successful in her quilts. Using the images students bring, we will discuss the translation of images from nature into a pieced quilt design. Students will begin their own pieced design, using subjects and seaming techniques attractive to them. Individual time with each student will help them find options and solutions. Some students will work on developing a simple design and be able to finish the top of the quilt; others may choose a more complex image, make the design and template pattern and finish the auditioning of fabric, but not complete the sewing process in class. www.ruthbmcdowell.com Level: Advanced Supply List
Laura Nownes Independent Study (with Benefits) Looking for an inspirational setting to start a new project or complete one in progress? Come and spend five days of quiltmaking camaraderie and collaboration working with other creative students. Laura’s expertise in a variety of areas of quiltmaking will be an invaluable asset in guiding you with anything from color and fabric selection, piecing, appliqué (hand or machine), drafting and all the finishing touches needed for both traditional and art quilts. Give yourself this gift of time to create and renew while working on your desired project. www.lauranownes.com Level: All Supply List
Pearl P. Pereira Nesting Goose Stylized flowers and the Nesting Goose fill this graceful basket designed just for this workshop. The focus of this workshop is careful prep work for perfect appliqué results; the workshop is designed for all skill levels and will introduce you to new techniques. Learn Pearl's "Off the Block" prepared edge freezer paper appliqué techniques and build your appliqué directly on the pattern. We'll also learn how to make any size "Perfect Bias Stems", reverse appliqué, sharp points, and perfect circles, smooth concave and convex shapes. This is a great class for a beginner or more advanced student to refine their appliqué techniques. www.p3designs.com Level: All Supply List
Lonni E. Rossi Surface Design on Textiles This is an introduction to basic surface design techniques and processes. The processes taught and demonstrated in this class are done with non-toxic, water-based textile paints that require heat-setting to become permanent. Students need no prior experience with textile printing, but some knowledge of basic printing processes is helpful. Students will learn how to make their own silk-screens using the Thermofax method, how to cut stencils, string-wrapping, printing techniques, patterning, repeats, layering of images, solar painting and various techniques for painting backgrounds. Lab Fee: $85.00 www.LonniRossi.com Level: Beginners to Intermediate Supply List
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