In case you join now, you’ll be able to nonetheless be part of me in a weekly studio go to as I work on my latest cloth collage portrait, an African leopard. The second of 4 displays is tonight, and if you join you’ll obtain a hyperlink to final week’s recording of the primary session to get you caught up.
That is the second sequence of Fly on the Wall: Studio Watch that has featured this leopard. Within the first sequence of 4 displays, I targeting the facial options—eyes, nostril, mouth, and ears. In case you attended that sequence, you will have the recordings to view everytime you’d like.
Nevertheless, we now have some attendees on this second sequence which have extra just lately found my Fly on the Wall displays and missed that first sequence. I used to be requested final week how I constructed the leopard’s eye. Since that’s onerous to elucidate from the place I’m at now within the collage course of, right here’s my answer: in the event you attended beforehand or not, I’ve included the real-time video excerpt beneath of developing the leopard’s eye.
Within the remaining three Thursday nights on this sequence I’ll be concentrating on including extra of my luscious cloth palette of African wax-print batiks—shifting down from the face of the leopard into the neck and shoulders—together with coping with all these intriguing spots and making my “second-draft edit record” for touch-ups, changes, and extra additions.
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The idea of the Fly on the Wall sequence is to permit you perception into my cloth collage working course of. Over the course of 4 Thursday evening classes, I invite you into my studio as I work stay and reply your questions as I lower, pin, glue and layer cloth.
In case you are late signing up or can’t make each assembly, do not forget that every session can be recorded for viewing at any time later.
I started this cloth portrait final November in a earlier Fly on the Wall: Studio Watch sequence. Inside these 4 weeks, I completed the primary draft of her facial options, the very starting and really finish images are above. Beneath, is a brief video over-view of these first 4 classes.
Now I’m able to get again to her—ending her head and progressing into her higher physique—there’s lots to determine. I’m not precisely certain the way it will all find yourself, that’s the character of how I work, however you may be there to see what I do, hear what I’m pondering, and ask questions as I am going.
This subsequent Fly on the Wall: Studio Watch Collection begins at 7pm Japanese Time, Thursday, September 12. The next evenings can be September 19, October 10 & 17. Please observe the 2 week break within the center.
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Every session will kick off with a brief slide present to carry you recent with the place the piece is at that second and the way it received there. Then with a digicam peering over my shoulder I’ll do an prolonged work session.
I’ve been completely having fun with utilizing the large, daring, and colour saturated prints from my assortment of African wax-printed materials. Whereas they’ll pose a problem to make use of in a collage akin to this, these materials are vibrant and thrilling and simply the type of vitality I hoped to inject into this portrait of a feminine leopard calling for her cubs—primarily based on {a photograph} taken by my cousin’s spouse Tanja Bauer, whereas on safari in Botswana.
Fly on the Wall: Susan Carlson Studio Watch—African Wax-Print Material Collage Leopard—Half 2
September 12 & 19, October 10 & 17, 2024—7:00 p.m. Japanese Time
Every session will final roughly 1-1/2 hours.
All classes can be recorded for viewing later in the event you can’t attend a number of.
Worth: $78
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In Half 1 of the African Leopard Fly on the Wall, I started engaged on this portrait—concentrating on African wax-print materials. I waited till the primary session (images beneath) to start the primary draft, so of us may see it stay from the start, wanting over my shoulder, as I defined my ideas and collage course of as I went alongside.
Different quilts with comparable challenges of utilizing large-scale design materials embrace: “Dixie Dingo Dreaming“, which used the big scale designs of Australian Aboriginal materials; “Gombessa“, which employed an African “complete material” for the background and Indonesian batiks for the fish, reflecting the house ranges of the coelacanth topic; and the net Observe-Alongside mission of my Fantastical Fish eWorkshop (information beneath).
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• Annotated movies with “bounce factors” to assist discover the knowledge you want.
• Supplies record
• Hyperlinks to useful weblog posts.
• Free fish sample of your selection.
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Susan Carlson Material Collage: Sea Turtle eWorkshop
Be taught cloth collage by means of a start-to-finish mission—from sample and cloth choice by means of quilting and binding. Every step is clearly written, illustrated with images, and additional demonstrated with movies. Be taught the method with a Sea Turtle then launch into any cloth collage mission you would like. Lifetime entry and appropriate for all ranges, together with learners. Sea Turtle Sample included
Learn all concerning the Sea Turtle eWorkshop on this weblog submit: Material Collage Sea Turtle eWorkshop Launch.
Material Collage On-line Grasp Class
The Susan Carlson Material Collage On-line Grasp Class Handbook is a multi-media useful resource information to the course of of material collage. Utilizing video, images, textual content, and hyperlinks to my weblog posts for additional related studying and data, I take you from starting to finish in creating your personal cloth collage masterpiece, following my tips in a step-by-step format. Lifetime Entry. Appropriate for all ranges, together with learners.
Learn all concerning the course of of making the Grasp Class—clarification of its genesis—the whys and hows Tom and I made among the choices we did on this submit: On-line Grasp Class Now Out there: Some Reflections.
Facial Options eWorkshop
Designed as a complement to the Material Collage On-line Grasp Class, or for many who have a superb understanding of the fundamentals of Material Collage. Lifetime Entry. Intermediate or superior ranges advised.
The Facial Options eWorkshop incorporates 8 movies and over 8 hours of in-depth instruction for creating every function of a portrait in cloth. The movies are annotated with “Leap Factors” permitting you to scan ahead and backward to the knowledge you want. Facial options PDF templates are included as reference and fundamental designs to work together with. Just like the Material Collage On-line Grasp Class, membership on this eWorkshop is for all times.
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Full colour all through. 5 tasks of accelerating complexity, 4 patterns to enlarge are included.
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