I want to make another post about the Vancouver Island Surface Design Association’s current exhibition because every work is such an excellent example of the many techniques fibre artist’s have to work with. The above detail is Linda Elias’s “Beet Harvest” where she used actual beets and leaves on a Gelli-plate to print on the […]
Read More...I attended Jane Dunnewold’s Dye workshop at the Pacific Northwest Art School in Coupeville. Jane took us through many different dyeing techniques. I picked up lots of valuable tips to fine tune my dyeing practice and I was able to correct the bad habits I had developed over the years. The first exercise was to dye […]
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...The Mark Making With Thread class at Victoria College of Art had a busy day painting background fabricsHere are their hands at work exploring paint on cloth
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 […]
Read More...After completing a screen printing of a wallpaper over the whole cloth, I put on a wash of light blue paint beside the yellow. I put it out in the sun and manipulated it to get the right flow of soft lines. I added leaves and flowers as resists – the same plants/shapes as the […]
Read More...The 3rd day was spent mostly on silk screening on our 4 meters of cloth. I wanted a wall paper effect so combined an alternating band made with a stamp and my silk screen pattern rotated 180 degrees each time. I didn’t quite get the motifs in the right place to make the pattern interlocking […]
Read More...We began day 2 by making different stamps and playing around with them. The next step with our cloth was to establish territories on it. I used my stamps to define the different areas of an abstracted face. In the afternoon i sun-printed with ferns down the side. At the end of the day i hung the cloth from […]
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