It is a last reminder to come back be a “Fly on the Wall” at present, as I lastly get again to engaged on my leopard cloth collage—created with African wax-print materials. For this primary of 4 classes, I’ll be beginning the place I left off on her ears and persevering with discussing and demo-ing neck and cheeks—making some good progress (and a very good mess with my materials) on a mission that has been ready just a few months for me.
In reacquainting myself with T’swana (because the quilt is now known as), I’ve already reached for a few of the fantastically daring and colourful materials I haven’t used but (see picture above)—including to the contours and values I see in her picture.
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 reside and reply your questions as I reduce, pin, glue and layer cloth.
In case you are late signing up or can’t make each assembly, keep in mind 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 photographs 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 loads to determine. I’m not precisely positive the way it will all find yourself, that’s the character of how I work, however you will be there to see what I do, hear what I’m considering, 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 be aware the 2 week break within the center.
Every session will kick off with a brief slide present to convey 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 coloration saturated prints from my assortment of African wax-printed materials. Whereas they will pose a problem to make use of in a collage resembling this, these materials are vibrant and thrilling and simply the form of vitality I hoped to inject into this portrait of a feminine leopard calling for her cubs—based mostly 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 should you can not attend a number of.
Value: $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 (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 related challenges of utilizing large-scale design materials embrace: “Dixie Dingo Dreaming“, which used the massive 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 Comply with-Alongside mission of my Fantastical Fish eWorkshop (information beneath).
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Susan Carlson Material Collage: Fantastical Fish eWorkshop
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• 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 “soar factors” to assist discover the knowledge you want.
• Supplies checklist
• 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 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 photographs, and additional demonstrated with movies. Be taught the approach with a Sea Turtle then launch into any cloth collage mission you want. Lifetime entry and appropriate for all ranges, together with rookies. 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 Guide is a multi-media useful resource information to the course of of material 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 personal cloth collage masterpiece, following my tips in a step-by-step format. Lifetime Entry. Appropriate for all ranges, together with rookies.
Learn all concerning the course of of making the Grasp Class—clarification of its genesis—the whys and hows Tom and I made a few of the selections 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 individuals who have a very good understanding of the fundamentals of Material Collage. Lifetime Entry. Intermediate or superior ranges instructed.
The Facial Options eWorkshop accommodates 8 movies and over 8 hours of in-depth instruction for creating every characteristic of a portrait in cloth. The movies are annotated with “Soar 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 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 initiatives of accelerating complexity, 4 patterns to enlarge are included.
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