Come be a “Fly on the Wall” as I proceed to work on my African cloth leopard, now named T’swana. I started this cloth collage final November, in one other of my reside Fly on the Wall collection. Inside these 4 weeks, I acquired so far as the primary draft of her facial options, as you see above.
Now I’m able to get again to her—ending her ears, head, and progressing into her higher physique—there’s a lot to determine. I’m not precisely positive the way it will all find yourself, that’s the character of how I work, however you might be there to see what I do, hear what I’m pondering, and ask questions as I’m going.
This subsequent Fly on the Wall: Studio Watch begins at 7pm Jap Time, Thursday, September 12. The next evenings will likely be September 19, October 10 & 17. Please be aware the 2 week break within the center.
The idea of the Fly on the Wall collection is to permit you an prolonged glimpse into my working course of. Over the course of 4 Thursday evening periods, I invite you into my studio as I work reside and reply your questions as I reduce, pin, glue and layer cloth.
Every session will kick off with a brief slide present to deliver you recent with the place the piece is at that second and, if potential, the way it acquired 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 coloration saturated prints from my assortment of African materials. Whereas they will pose a problem to make use of in a collage comparable to this, African materials are vibrant and thrilling and simply the form of power 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 Material Leopard—Half 2
September 12 & 19, October 10 & 17, 2024—7:00 p.m. Jap Time
Every session will final roughly 1-1/2 hours.
All periods will likely be recorded for viewing later if you happen to can’t attend a number of.
Value: $78
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Within the first a part of this African Material Leopard Fly on the Wall, I started engaged on this leopard portrait—concentrating on African print materials. I waited till the primary session (photographs beneath) to start the primary draft, so people may see it reside 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 embody: “Dixie Dingo Dreaming“, which used the big scale designs of Australian Aboriginal materials; “Gombessa“, which employed an African “entire fabric” for the background and Indonesian batiks for the fish, reflecting the house ranges of the coelacanth topic; and the net venture of my Fantastical Fish eWorkshop (data beneath).
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Susan Carlson Material Collage: Fantastical Fish eWorkshop
INCLUDES:
• All 4 recordings from the four-week class.
• Prolonged 10-minute version of piecing time lapse (see beneath).
• Over six hours of video instruction.
• Annotated movies with “bounce factors” to assist discover the data you want.
• Supplies listing
• Hyperlinks to useful weblog posts.
• Free fish sample of your alternative.
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Susan Carlson Material Collage: Sea Turtle eWorkshop
Be taught cloth collage by a start-to-finish venture—from sample and cloth choice by quilting and binding. Every step is clearly written, illustrated with photographs, and additional demonstrated with movies. Be taught the method with a Sea Turtle then launch into any cloth collage venture you would like. Lifetime entry and appropriate for all ranges, together with rookies. Sea Turtle Sample included
Learn all in regards to the Sea Turtle eWorkshop on this weblog publish: 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 cloth collage. Utilizing video, photographs, textual content, and hyperlinks to my weblog posts for additional related studying and data, I take you from starting to finish in creating your individual cloth collage masterpiece, following my pointers in a step-by-step format. Lifetime Entry. Appropriate for all ranges, together with rookies.
Learn all in regards to the course of of making the Grasp Class—rationalization of its genesis—the whys and hows Tom and I made a few of the choices we did on this publish: On-line Grasp Class Now Accessible: Some Reflections.
Facial Options eWorkshop
Designed as a complement to the Material Collage On-line Grasp Class, or for individuals who have an excellent understanding of the fundamentals of Material Collage. Lifetime Entry. Intermediate or superior ranges urged.
The Facial Options eWorkshop comprises 8 movies and over 8 hours of in-depth instruction for creating every characteristic of a portrait in cloth. The movies are annotated with “Bounce Factors” permitting you to scan ahead and backward to the data you want. Facial options PDF templates are included as reference and primary designs to work together with. Just like the Material Collage On-line Grasp Class, membership on this eWorkshop is for all times.
Guide: Serendipity Quilts—Chopping Unfastened Material Collage
Full coloration all through. 5 tasks of accelerating complexity, 4 patterns to enlarge are included.
These books will likely be signed by Susan and might be inscribed to a selected particular person.
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