My sister and I spent the day in the Lower Studio at the Victoria College of Art getting it ready for a new course I am teaching on pattern design.This is the before shot. Sister Donnel started with cleaning the wet studio. The storage area had a pile of new tiles we found out we could put down in […]
Read More...In our final class today, we spent the time setting up for the end of year show and sale. The students attached their samples to large boards, grouped by technique, exercise and project. Everyone was impressed with the amount of work they produced over the 11 weeks. We were all pleased with how exciting all […]
Read More...I have been dyeing using Leslie Morgan and Claire Benn’s tray technique. I have decided it is an ideal way for a class to do some dyeing. So tray dyeing is on for the next lesson of Mark Making with Machine, at the Victoria College of Art. I am building up some ground fabrics to […]
Read More...Here are the early twentieth century students in the Bank Street school . . . Here are the twenty first century students in the school on Bank Street, 100 years later. The 3 windows you can see . . . . . . are the 3 lowest ones on the side of the school, in […]
Read More...Last year i wrapped the 4 the trees i decided to have a ‘dialogue’ with. After a few months the unbleached cotton i had wrapped them with showed no signs of the staining i had expected. So I left the trees wrapped and continued the dialogues in other ways.Yesterday, while i was outside doing fall […]
Read More...Day 3 at MISSA I started another course. Photographer/designer/artist, Tony Bounsall, offered an irresistible course, ‘Altered Imagery’.Within the 1st hour he had us up on the photocopier rolling our faces over the glass after he had explained it was actually a slit camera. You can imagine the laughter coming form the copier room as 7 […]
Read More...My big news is I have decided to go back teaching.I have had a look around all of the schools in Victoria where art is taught and have settled on teaching at the Victoria College of Art.The school is in this 100-year old building, originally an elementary school with a boys’ entrance and a girls’ […]
Read More...For the past few weeks I have been working with a grades 11 & 12 art class as they learn how to dye and paint fabric. They random-dyed and painted backgrounds then thickened the dyes to paint, print, stencil and stamp for the 2nd & 3rd layers. This student is cutting out letters from a […]
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