I attended a Jane Davies’ ‘Big Fat Art Workshop, Jane’s Blog. We did many ‘technique’ exercises working quickly on large sheets of inexpensive paper. It was all about layers using many different media and working quickly to stop over thinking it. A sampler recording how to block out large shapes with different edges. An exercise […]
Read More...I was fortunate to be able to attend one of Carol Soderlund’s workshops– Carol’s website. She taught us her dyeing techniques while guiding our explorations of the colour wheel’s neutral territory. With Carol exploring neutrals is like going down a rabbit hole. Carol applies the dye in her unique way to get an even distribution […]
Read More...“An individual stroke is an utterance of touch.” Dorothy Caldwell Dorothy is demonstrating the next Stroke Painting exercise. We taped various types of brushes onto long sticks. We dipped them into pots of different dilutions of black ink. With a large sheet of paper on the ground in front of each of us, we were […]
Read More...In conjunction with Vancouver Island SDA’s exhibition, Current Threads 2014, in the Nanaimo Art Gallery, Margie Preninger will be running a fibre based, 2-day workshop. ‘The workshop will be a hands-on approach to exploring colour, texture, and symbolism.’ ‘The simple weaving will produce a seamless vessel, which can become a purse or decorative item.A focus will […]
Read More...The 2nd week, after the SDA conference, I attended a 5-day workshop run by Marie-Therese Wisniowski, from Australia. Marie-Therese is an excellent teacher. She opened up the whole world of diverse dyes and transfer for her students. I had worked through the Double Trouble book ‘Transfer to Transform’ but wasn’t able to take the technique into more developed work. Marie-Therese explained the chemistry of the process then took […]
Read More...In my degree studies I am exploring the connection between red cells in human blood and chlorophyll in plants.I dyed many different household linens in greens and reds: pillow cases with embroidery, tea towels, bed sheets, napkins, table cloths.I used a Val Campbell-Harding method to randomly strip-piece the different cloths. After one cut and sewing […]
Read More...Last week the Vancouver Island Surface Design Association attended a professional development workshop facilitated by Martha Cole, fibre artist from Saskatchewan. The place and the day was significant because it was the inaugural workshop in Gloria Daly’s new studio.She welcomed us all into her new workspace after having worked very hard to get it finished […]
Read More...Donna and I drove up to Edmonton yesterday for our 2nd workshop in the McMullen Gallery. We encouraged those who came into the gallery to sit down for a while to play with some design methods: doodling within a divided basic shape & notan (dark & light) – a Japanese based exercise where one uses […]
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