This night, February sixth, we start our 2025 Fantastical Cloth Collage Fish Observe-Alongside—this yr I’m selecting a goldfish design and a palette of blue materials, although you can also make your personal decisions on your fish. I’ll have already got a reputation for my (future) piece, “Goldie Swims the Blues.” I inform my college students that if they’ve, or can give you, a narrative, it could actually assist with selections that must be made alongside the material collage journey. I discuss a bit about that—as associated to getting began—on this Fish Observe Alongside publish from a pair weeks in the past.
In between then and now, Tom and I spent a while updating my Cloth Collage On-line Grasp Class. I get plenty of questions on material choice, so I gave particular consideration to updating information there. However amongst different issues, I additionally added in additional encouragement to create a Cloth Collage Palette—earlier than you even get happening the collage itself.
I’m mentioning that now as a result of I’m taking my very own recommendation to coronary heart as I put together for the primary presentation of February’s Fantastical Cloth Collage Fish Observe-Alongside later at present (7pm Jap Time). I’ve obtained my “Goldie” design enlarged and traced onto my basis material, picked materials and lower a palette (beneath).
However a pair days in the past, I noticed I actually ought to do extra of what I say, and at the least begin a spiral collage as a heat as much as my fish challenge. Do I have to? No. Will it give me some thought of how my material decisions are going to look collectively—lower into smaller items and overlapping? Sure. Will or not it’s a great instance to you guys. In all probability so.
So right here you go. I took perhaps a pair hours to additional lower down my palette items—about certainly one of every to suit the size of the spiral—and began to see what would occur. For me, a spiral is a kind of meditation follow—I get in a zone once I see how the material patterns and, on this case, how the blues stream collectively. I needed to pause the place I did for it to be a great instance to point out within the presentation, as I take what I noticed about my material decisions, to now apply to my fish drawing—stay, in entrance of you, beginning tonight.
For the 4 Thursdays in February, I’ll lead you thru the creation of a brand new material collage fish quilt. This can be a stay occasion, so Zoom with us (me and Tom) should you can, particularly to benefit from the stay Q&A. Should you can’t be part of us, the shows can be recorded and emailed to you the following day, Friday. And should you join at any time earlier than the top of February’s ultimate class, you’ll obtain all 4 recordings of the weekly shows.
For individuals who need to create their very own Fantastical Fish, a provide record and a free fish sample of your alternative (although you can also make your personal design) is included once you join. Extra February Fish class information following beneath. Hope to see you there!
At the moment’s Throwback Thursday revisits final yr’s February Fish Class—Half 3 (see preview photographs above)—with extra of the splendidly fantastical quilts that have been made by my (fabulously prolific) college students. The variability, coloration, and creativity displayed in these quilts is totally inspirational—thanks everybody for sharing!
Do you’ve gotten a Fantastical Fish to share in a future Fishy End Line publish? Click on on submission button beneath—and thanks!
Even Extra Fish within the Sea: Fantastical Cloth Collage, February Outcomes! Half 3
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Susan Carlson Cloth Collage: Fantastical Fish eWorkshop I
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Facial Options eWorkshop
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The Facial Options eWorkshop incorporates 8 movies and over 8 hours of in-depth instruction for creating every function of a portrait in material. 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 primary designs to work together with. Just like the Cloth Collage On-line Grasp Class, membership on this eWorkshop is for all times.
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