Here is an artist whose work makes a difference. He paints murals on bus shelters and buildings to make people smile. This happiness deters those with the urge to tag blank walls. Jeremy currently lives in Hamilton, New Zealand and has left his mark all over the country. Here is a link to an article […]
Read More...One of the morning exercises was to analyse different patterns and to find examples of different types of patterns to put in our Pattern Dictionaries. Elisha is working out how this pattern was made. Elisha working with a new stamp she carved. See below the resulting pattern. Charlotte’s new carved stamp produces a number of […]
Read More...The students have spent the past couple of weeks learning how to make repeating patterns, developing their own designs then using them to create different patterns. Connie cuts a quick, inexpensive corrugated cardboard stamp to trial a design. Elisha created a design based on a building then translated it into foam stamps, one the mirror […]
Read More...In the 2nd lesson of ‘Pattern Design for Artists’ we begin exploring linear repeating patterns. After making a quick stamp to trial a design we used it to make 1 dimensional patterns. The above image shows the set up for printing as I was taught by Eleanor Hannan www.eleanorhannan.com. It is such an efficient way […]
Read More...I spent 2 days getting the Victoria College of Art’s Lower Studio ready for teaching in this spring term. This is the before shot. Day 2 my well-trained assistant set up the print tables. All ready for “Pattern Design for Artists” I enjoy teaching this course because there are always great discoveries to be made.
Read More...Another stunning exhibition at the SDA conference was a collection of Maria Shell’s quilts, at Gallery Nord. “Color Grids” Every quilt was made using the same quilt block. But Maria played with ‘line, shape, print, and color’ to produce a collection of technically exquisite and very different quilts. The quilts were installed in a 3-sided booth, […]
Read More...My poor quality photography does not show the exquisite embroidery Denise worked on each of the cloths.
Read More...This is Esther Paterson’s display of work she did in the Pattern Design for Artists course.Esther chose to work with an eye motif and produced many patterns she will use in her work. Sonia Park was a student in the Mark Making With Thread course. She had to return to her home country, Korea, before the Christmas show […]
Read More...Hand washing some of my thrift store finds and successful bids at auction houses.2 fine wool shawls, one with beautiful, woven, floral border Wool blanket – well used but laundered carefully over its life time so no sign of fulling. Piece of old silk velvet in blue and gold – a little fragile but washed up well. A […]
Read More...To teach the Pattern Design course I set up stations around the studio. This is where I demoed how to make different stamps. This was a cutting station, though the students had space to set up their individual cutting stations too. This is a print station. I learnt this set-up from Eleanor Hannan when I was in her Compositional Cloth […]
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